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REMS Logistics
This REMS modules provides inventory
control across all entities involved in sheltering and re-supply. These entities include warehouses,
re-supply vehicles, shelters and point-of-re-supply. This allows for the most efficient movement
of limited resources across the entire theater of operations.
Warehouse
functions can be accessed via the REMS web portal, on Windows Mobile computer
or even on SmartPhones equipped with a bar code
scanner or RFID Reader.
Receiving
As
supplies from outside the region arrive, they are off loaded at a warehouse
and scanned into inventory, using a mobile computer. They are then immediately visible to the
Logistics Dispatcher for assignment to a final destination (i.e. shelter). The Dispatcher can
cross-dock materials so that put-away into the warehouse is not required. Advance shipment notices from outside
agencies may be used to assist in routing incoming supplies to the most
appropriate warehouse.
Requisitions
Shelter
personnel use REMS to enter requests for re-supply. These are automatically forwarded to the
Logistics Dispatcher for processing.
Once they are approved, they are forwarded as ‘orders to be filled’ at
the warehouse.
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Order Filling
Warehouse
personnel receive orders to fill right on their mobile computer. And for each item in the order, its exact
location in the warehouse. As each
item is scanned, inventory levels in the warehouse are reduced, so that
up-to-the-second accuracy is maintained.
Shipping
Once an
order is loaded onto a re-supply vehicle, the inventory levels for the
vehicle are adjusted upward and an advance-shipment-notice is sent to the requisitioning
Shelter. The Logistics Dispatcher
forwards driving directions to the Driver’s mobile computer.
Delivery
Once the
vehicle arrives at the Shelter (or point-of-resupply), the driver scans items
out of the vehicle inventory, using the REMS application on the mobile
computer.
Shelters
and Points-of-Resupply
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