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U.S. Military Maintenance Facility Improves Hazardous Materials Management
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems
- Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The U.S. Military Maintenance Facility (IMF) is responsible for maintaining and modernizing the fleet of submarines. The maintenance process involves the use of many materials classified as hazardous, so effectively managing these materials is critical to worker safety and regulatory compliance. The HazMat team is responsible for the inventory of approximately 1,100 types of hazardous materials. The team coordinates the annual distribution of $885,000 worth of hazardous materials to approximately 90 civilian shops that perform the work on its transport vehicles. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has the overall responsibility for the management of the Hazardous Material Management System (HMMS) program for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal government facilities. DLA requires an enterprise solution to manage Hazardous Material (HM) and Hazardous Waste (HW).
About The Customer
The customer in this case study is a large maintenance facility of the U.S. military. This facility is responsible for maintaining and modernizing the fleet of submarines in support of the military branch it supports. The maintenance process involves the use of many materials classified as hazardous. The task of managing these materials falls to the HazMat team, which is responsible for the inventory of approximately 1,100 types of hazardous materials. The team coordinates the annual distribution of $885,000 worth of hazardous materials to approximately 90 civilian shops that perform the work on its transport vehicles. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has the overall responsibility for the management of the Hazardous Material Management System (HMMS) program for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal government facilities.
The Solution
The Sphera HMMS solution was selected for hazardous materials management after determining it is the only product of its kind to meet DoD requirements for waste and material tracking. The system alerts users when inventory falls below pre-determined parameters and prevents the over-ordering of materials already in stock. With the Sphera system in place, the team knows exactly how much of each material is used daily by its 90 maintenance shops. Each shop has two rotating “day boxes,” which facility workers inventory daily so that they can top off and replace used items and return unneeded items to inventory. By closely monitoring demand levels and projected usage, the team was able to decrease the number of times it orders the same item each year. The new inventory management system provides the advantage of better tracking usage levels to determine which products can be split among various worksites.
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