Mobile BIS has announced the immediate release of a new enhancement to its Route Optimization solution utilizing Google Maps and Google Latitude. Especially designed for commercial use, the new software allows businesses to accurately interface with a field operator about routing logistics as well as execute functions with greater security.
While Google Latitude essentially "tracks" the location of a registered cell phone user's mobile devise. Mobile BIS's Route Optimization Engine provides specific driving instructions for deliveries, allows for logging pick-up confirmations, and, based on GPS location, mileage and special circumstances, designs the most efficient routes for the next stop - all in real time.
"In conjunction with Google Maps, we are able to pinpoint a driver's exact location as well as plot it on a map. This technology makes it easier and more efficient for routing of drivers, or other employees who are in the field," Mobile BIS President Michael Macho explained. "This is leading edge technology directly improving business productivity," Macho added.
Macho also noted that the application has unique value to police and firefighters, who rely upon urgent navigation of city streets. The application assists the personnel at remote locations as well as management who are ultimately responsible for their safe and efficient deployment.
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Mobile BIS has announced the national release of its highly acclaimed medications tracking program utilized during terrorist and natural emergencies to help cities, counties, and states to respond to urgent medical supply requirements.
BIS Computer Solution's "Inventory Management System" (IMS), helps agencies acquire, store and disseminate medical supplies directly to the "points of dispensing" or PODs. This system was originally developed in response to the Homeland Security Department's initiative for their Strategic National Stockpile program administered by the Center for Disease Control. Large cities or regions may have hundreds of PODs, requiring a mobile computer and communications system to ensure the safe and swift distribution of medications.
"Behind the scenes of any community medical crisis, from the recent Swine Flu pandemic to seasonal floods, the public assumes that there is an infrastructure in place to distribute critically needed medical supplies," Mobile BIS President
Michael Macho explained. In fact, while the Federal Government has conceived and provides funding for an emergency distribution system, called the Cities Readiness Initiative, many municipalities are ill-equipped to respond efficiently - an especially challenging reality when time is of the essence.
"Storing medications in a warehouse doesn't deliver the inventory to the doctors and nurses on the frontline," Macho explained. "The key is to have an easy to use system that can instantly gear-up and track the flow of medications through the full distribution cycle - from supplier to warehouse and out to the dispensing locations," Macho added.
Mobile BIS's IMS helps counties and states track the distribution all of the way from warehouse to patient. In moments of massive deployment, the IMS program is the backbone for the distribution of critical medications, including returning unused meds back to the warehouse. A dozen 18 wheelers can be waiting for staff to receive the goods into the warehouse and stage it properly for the ultimate users.
"The system helps initiate readiness and then turns on with a matrix of solutions when it's needed," Macho said. "Once it's activated, it provides instant tracking and communications between warehouses, treatment centers and Points of Dispensing, transportation, medical personnel, and management - including mobile access in more remote areas," Macho added.
The program also provides for a depth of detail to enhance distribution efficiency, including the type of delivery truck, loading requirements, authorized security personnel, and specific POD requests.
The IMS program is already in place in select cities and is now being rolled-out across the nation.
"Municipal management has had tremendous success with the program, reducing administrative time and costs - and insuring the timely delivery of medications," Macho said.
One of Mobile BIS' partners, DOBBS RAM and Company, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is helping to market the software product on the east coast.
"It has been an extraordinary collaboration," Ronald McCrae, President of DOBBS RAM and Company said. "The technology is not only leading edge, but there is great satisfaction in delivering a product that could ultimately save lives."
The pet cemetery industry is rapidly undergoing a transformation to a new level of digital efficiency, higher customer satisfaction and enhanced profitability. This, and more to come, is the vision of Mobile BIS President Michael Macho, who introduced new technology systems expressly for the pet cemetery industry.
"Now that the new software programs have been implemented and seasoned by an array of national and international cemeteries, the dramatic improvements to customer satisfaction and reduced administrative costs have been quantifiably validated," Macho said.
And the future is trending toward even greater efficiencies. Pet owners' need for more information faster, and the pressures of a challenged economy, has stimulated the development of new applications yet to be released. According to Brenda Down, executive director of the IAOPCC, members of her organization have embraced the new technology as an invaluable tool to provide instant access to detailed information about a pet's cremation or burial.
"The technology is not only providing a tremendous service and convenience for the customer." Macho explained, "It's also dramatically reducing costs for the crematories, eliminating many hand operations and other administrative chores."
