the instant financial rewards developers are looking for
from the app stores. Because of this, companies looking
to use mobile solutions for their operations need to
look within their market space, or adjacent markets for
software developers with the required industry experience
and knowledge for the support they require.
For the US Coast Guard (USCG), this search required a
combination of things: a proven, commercial off the shelf
solution meeting US governmental security concerns, fuels
knowledge and systems integration expertise, and the
vendor’s in house ability to tailor a solution to their unique
operations.
Industry example: Capturing
point of sales transactions
for improved inventory
reconciliation
The USCG requires a solution to capture fuel deliveries from
bulk storage to USCG aircraft and transient aircraft from the
Army, Air Force, and Navy. They looked to Varec to develop
and test a functional system at Elizabeth City Coast Guard Air
Station, in North Carolina. FuelsManager®, Varec's bulk
inventory management system currently approved by, and
licensed to the US Department of Defense. But it was the
work that Varec performs for airline service providers that
was of interest to the Coast Guard.
Varec's mobile into plane solution captures aviation fuel
transactions using hazardous area approved handheld
computers running specific software designed for Windows
Mobile. These handheld computers communicate with fuel
meters on the fuel trucks and share data with the bulk
inventory management system through a docking station,
which in turn sends the data to the enterprise system.
At the test site, the Coast Guard's fueling fleet has been
outfitted with a similar mobile solution that captures the
quantity of fuel issued, scans credit card information, and
validates the electronic ID of the fueling operator as well as
the ID of the recipient of the fuel. Data formats differ
between industries but the transactions were essentially the
same. The addition of a mobile credit card reader was also
required. Final electronic transactions are transferred to the
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Figure 3.
Electronic point of sale transactions on the flight line are captured by mobile units and
transferred to an inventory management system for accurate and timely inventory reconciliation and
enterprise reporting. Source: PA1 Harry C. Craft III.
