Whether you’re a senior logistician, manager or planner, the Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR) with all of its robust reporting flexibility provides military leadership with the decision support capabilities required for overseeing key logistics metrics, asset visibility, equipment inventory, maintenance, and materiel readiness. JMAR serves in the distinct role of the Enterprise asset visibility and business intelligence tool of the Defense Medical Logistics (DML)-Enterprise Solution (DML-ES).
Designated as the DOD authoritative source for aggregated joint medical logistics information, JMAR is a one stop shop that provides extensive visibility into medical logistics information at more than 400 disparate locations worldwide. JMAR does not create data. It receives data feeds from multiple medical logistics applications such as the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) system, Theater Enterprise Wide Logistics System (TEWLS), Force Inventory Management Analysis Reporting System (FIMARS) and Defense Logistics Agency- Troop Support. JMAR makes this information available in one central place giving the end user visibility to robust, aggregate medical logistics information. The system has more than 3,000 users from all Services, Joint Staff, Health Affairs and DHA to assist in oversight, management and analysis as well as providing a valuable tool for quickly answering various medical logistics data calls. JMAR is a web based application and can be accessed by authorized users with a CAC at https://jmar.detrick.army.mil from a .mil address.
The JMAR system consists of modules with capabilities designed to provide visibility of enterprise-wide supply and equipment inventory and data with historical trending of transactional data, enterprise metrics and equipment maintenance to aid in planning, benchmarking and oversight. Modules include Asset Visibility, Decision Support System (DSS), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Ad Hoc Reporting.
o The Asset Visibility module is used to access medical logistics inventories including Assemblage Management, Equipment, Facilities, Due-In/Due-Out, and Inventory.
The Equipment Module is normally the most used module in JMAR. It includes extensive reporting tied to productivity, inventory and patient safety. The Equipment Maintenance Dashboards are useful for Maintenance Managers to monitor the biomed efficiency while the Equipment Inventory Dashboard and reports are useful for equipment managers for equipment acquisition and replacement planning. Equipment Smart Search capability was recently delivered to assist users in quickly finding 100 percent of equipment inventory potentially affected by product recalls or patient safety alerts. The Top Devices Prototype report was built to assist managers in identifying what equipment is breaking and why as well as average maintenance costs by medical device class, equipment nomenclature, manufacturer and model.
The Due-In/Due-Out module reports on orders due-in to facilities as well as due-out to customers. The module also includes the Navy specific Due-In Metrics report of over aged orders.
The Inventory module includes all inventory reported to include War Reserve, Customer, Retail, Wholesale, Vendor Management Inventory and Contingency stock. It is the only module that includes all inventory reported to JMAR regardless of category as well as orders due-in or due-out. This module quickly becomes the most used module during contingencies such as Operation Tomadachi that warranted immediate need for visibility of material required to treat potential radiation exposure.
Assemblage Management reports extensively on assemblage inventory and quality assurance data and includes an Assemblage Readiness Dashboard to monitor material and critical material availability as well as predictive dashboards for forecasting the replacement of pharmaceutical inventories and other expiration dated material.
The Facility module includes Medical Treatment Facility property data to include installations, buildings, rooms, real property installed equipment, projects and requirements. This module contains data related to several standards identified by the Joint Commission Accreditation for Hospital Organizations (JCAHO).
o The DSS Module is designed to provide insight to potential or existing problems for the purpose of guiding business and organizational decision making activities. Within the DSS module are the Item Receipts Dashboard and Item Receipt Reports that provide a set of graphical indicators of summary Item Receipts data in either aggregate charts showing overall totals or trend charts showing totals over a period of time. Item Receipt details, summary and other reports allow you to measure and improve procurement and methods by providing visibility to Item Receipts, Prime Vendor usage, contract data, Source of Supply data, and Government Purchase Card (GPC) usage. This module is also available to support standardization activities.
o The KPI Module includes several measures of performance as related to enterprise strategy goals or high profile inventories. KPIs are frequently used to place value on activities that are difficult to measure and facilitates the evaluation of an organization’s progress toward its vision and long-term organizational goals. KPIs help organizations assess their present state of business and assist in a prescribed course of action to improve. In JMAR, the KPI module provides progress measures for three Health Affairs programs as well as Enterprise Metrics for strategic sourcing goals.
The Program Readiness Dashboard includes measures of material readiness to support a Pandemic Influenza or Ebola event. Each view provides line item and program readiness status for the critical material such as Personal Protective Equipment, Antibiotics, Antivirals and Vaccines. Quality Assurance views support the proactive management of expiring inventories and the dollars required to sustain readiness status over time. Users have the flexibility to view data by Service, Combatant Command, FEMA Region or Tricare Region.
The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Dashboard is similar to the Program readiness but is for the high profile inventories stored to respond to a CBRN event. In the future this dashboard will be moved to the Program Readiness Dashboard.
The Enterprise Metrics Dashboard is used to monitor progress towards meeting DHA goals related to strategic sourcing and effectiveness. Some key goals such as reducing GPC usage and increasing eCommerce usage are measured with both customer and supplier measures and with trending capabilities. Also included are measures for pricing efficiency and effectiveness, standardization compliance and Medical Master Catalog synchronization.
o The Ad Hoc module provides query, reporting, and an analysis suite of tools that allow users to conduct customized inquiry for each of the areas inside of JMAR in order to obtain information not otherwise attainable from standard predefined queries.
The JMAR team’s mission is to support DML’s information needs of medical logisticians, managers and planners by capturing and reporting accurate, complete, and timely medical logistics asset data, and developing relevant medical logistics business intelligence solutions. In doing so, our goal is to also make JMAR intuitive for users with focus on near real-time data, data relevance, completeness and integrity. Future efforts will include several technical enhancements to support a fully integrated solution of JMAR capabilities into a DML-ES service oriented architecture with greater use of tools to secure improved performance, interoperability and availability. If there are suggestions or comments, please send emails to usarmy.detrick.medcom-jmlfdc.mbx.jmar@mail.mil.