Solutions | Supply Chain Savant
Delivering on the Promise of RFID for the Supply Chain
Today's retailers need complete visibility across the supply chain to enable maximum availability with minimal stock levels. BENT SYSTEMS’ Supply.Chain Savant is a powerful business application that allows retailers to track inventory, reduce lead times, control costs and minimize human error. Rather than rely only on delayed batch mode data processing to manage operations, this product provides real time information analysis.
Supply Chain Savant enables a sophisticated, high performance, enterprise supply chain management environment using RFID data while leveraging existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. This solution collects, stores and organizes the RFID tag information, with the ability to interface with existing warehouse and enterprise applications to allow inventories, assets, shipments and deliveries to be fully tracked and managed. Supply Chain Savant enables retailers, distributors and suppliers to reduce inventories, improve distribution processes, increase security, reduce shrinkage and improve customer service by tracking and managing assets in real-time throughout the supply chain.
Supply Chain Savant Solution Benefits:
- Gain competitive advantage
- Improve supply chain efficiencies
- Reduce labor requirements
- Shorten order cycles
- Increase security for goods
- Improve promotions
- Reduce counterfeiting
- Reduce waste and spoilage
- Improve billing cycles, reduce discrepancies
- Increase sales by managing on-shelf inventory levels
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) promises organizations the ability to easily gain visibility and control of operations at a level unimaginable with previous approaches. With RFID, businesses can generate a robust stream of data related to the supply chain. In order to be fully effective, this information should not only provide companies with real time distribution information, but an opportunity to utilize the power of this new information within extended business processes. However, the current reality associated with most RFID technologies is somewhat different.
Legacy supply chain and enterprise applications were not designed to take advantage of the new and vast amount of RFID data, nor manage related business processes on a per item basis. Upgrading these legacy applications to directly support RFID can be both costly and represent a risk to mission critical business functions. BENT SYSTEMS has a solution.
The BENT SYSTEMS Approach
BENT SYSTEMS’ product strategy recognizes both the business potential as well as the associated technical challenges of implementing an RFID solution. For most organizations, one of the primary issues is the difficulty in effectively managing the vast amount of information generated within a geographically disparate, complex business operation.
BENT SYSTEMS is leading the way with an integrated and standardized approach that turns RFID into a core competitive advantage. Based on real world experience with key industry clients, BENT SYSTEMS provides organizations with the ability to rapidly implement an RFID solution, thereby saving large customization and startup costs. The integrated sets of products leverage the newly emerging EPCglobal standards for electronic product codes, which were co-authored by BENT SYSTEMS. Our products go far beyond mere compliance with standards to truly leverage RFID for business intelligence that drives competitive advantage.
Supply Chain Savant Platform
The BENT SYSTEMS RFID Core Framework serves as a flexible platform for systems integrators and is the foundation of all BENT SYSTEMS solutions. This product provides the integrator/developer with a rich set of functionality to build vertical RFID solutions unique to each customer environment, enabling organizations to more quickly realize RFID benefits. The framework is compliant with existing EPCglobal and DoD standards and a number of valuable added features. BENT SYSTEMS commitment to standards compliance helps ensure customers that our RFID Core Framework is the best solution for their current and future needs.
RFID Savant Framework features include:
- Real-time RFID and sensor data collection and persistence
- Real-time enterprise data and association with RFID data
- Secure EPCIS data sharing
- Extensible RFID information model
- Standard browser-based reports
- Rich Query Format
- ERP Integration Features
- Robust EAI platform
- Off-the-shelf functionality
- High performance, scalable architecture
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