SCT staff have worked with and alongside NATO staff since 2004 in the development and deployment of interoperable consignment tracking – now termed shipment tracking in accordance with the GS1 terminology.
Military commanders need to know when their mission essential equipment is going to arrive in theatre – in-transit visibility of shipments and assets is critical. It makes sense therefore to share tracking infrastructure so that when your shipment passes through a logistic node belonging to a partner, arrival and departure information is automatically forwarded. Using a combination of SCT technology and NATO standardisation agreements (STANAGs), nations using CMA are able to both share tracking information with partner nations and with the NATO commander.
When your assets are moving along a multi-national supply route, the use of proven and widely-deployed RFID and GPS tags with CMA means that your assets no longer require any manual involvement to report on location and movement. NATO’s Asset Tracking interoperability standards have provided for a set of template xml messages that facilitate the sharing of RFID reader infrastructure along with the ability to track nested multi-national shipments – CMA users benefit from having this capability as built-in functionality. An additional benefit is that you no longer need to deploy national support elements to receive and on-ship your in-transit assets.
Contact us to learn more about how you could leverage interoperable in-transit visibility to improve your supply chain management.
