Vendor Managed Inventory Using Remote Monitoring

Remote Monitoring Solves Perplexing Vendor Managed Inventory Problems.

Vendor Managed Inventory (or VMI) is the process in which a vendor assumes responsibility for managing the inventory of a product at a customer's site. The vendor is usually responsible for:

Vendor Managed Inventory employs "just-in-time" principles to optimize supply chain efficiency by minimizing the amount of inventory at the customer’s site while eliminating run-outs and emergency deliveries.

Timely inventory and usage data is essential to the Vendor Managed Inventory process and Supply Chain Management in general. It often requires a real-time remote monitoring network that integrates with existing information systems.

Remote monitoring is a widely accepted method of monitoring a variety of products such as liquid levels in storage tanks and bulk powders or pellets in silos, bins and hoppers. It can also be applied to other types of inventory as well.

The benefits of remote monitoring goes beyond accurate and timely inventory data. With it, you can:

Remote Inventory Monitoring requires the installation of a Remote Monitoring Unit (RMU) at every remote location. Sensors attached to the RMU provide the required inventory information as well any ambient conditions that need to be monitored.

The RMU intelligently processes all of the information from the sensors and transmits vital changes in inventory or usage to a centralized computer. The centralized computer (also known as a server) accepts data from every remote site and populates a database. Information from the database can then be used to generate management reports or to interface with other information systems.

Global Monitoring is a team of remote monitoring professionals with the proven ability to design, deploy and maintain remote monitoring networks that can monitor any condition anywhere.

We are well versed in the full range of business solutions required to make your remote monitoring vision a reality, including:

From concept through deployment, Global Monitoring's design, support and product knowledge provides cost-effective and timely business solutions for your remote monitoring needs.

Our strategic partners include premiere equipment manufacturers, field-service organizations, information technology and communications companies - enabling us to tackle monitoring network requirements of any size; from single site applications to international networks involving many hundreds or even thousands of sites.

Global Monitoring is located in suburban Philadelphia, just minutes away from Philadelphia International Airport and from highways I-476 and I-95. Contact us by phone (601-604-0760) or by email (solutions@globalmonitoring.com).