Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Track Your Assets From Cradle To Grave With Asset Management Software

By Darren Folkes


Tracking your inventory closely is important to increasing profits. Without tracking your assets from cradle to grave, they can be lost due to theft, mishandling, or oversight. Implementing an asset management plan is vital whether you have a multi-million dollar inventory or just carry a few assets.

Thanks to modern, sophisticated software, it is easy to put an advanced asset management system in place. You can track each asset your company owns all throughout its lifespan by using RFID tags and software. This allows you to always know where your assets are located and what your profit margin is. This is good for tracking profits and it also helps you comply with regulations and be ready for spur of the moment audits.

Managing your assets is the best way to control your inventory. It makes it easier to order supplies before they get too low and lets you know when it is time to pull assets for retirement or maintenance. Asset management includes organizing your insurance and warranties as well so they can be quickly located. This helps you recover faster from disaster. With software you can create a trail for each of your assets. This data can be manipulated for inventory control, auditing, ordering, financial planning, improved utilization, reduction of waste, improved efficiency, cost reduction and labour reduction.

At one time, advanced inventory management meant you had to deal with a mountain of paperwork. With software options, you can store data in a variety of files such as documents, scanned materials, photographs, and CAD files. When viewed on a computer monitor, your entire inventory can be displayed in a variety of ways in living color that makes the data easy to comprehend.

This also lets you search your entire inventory with a single click and get results sorted by RFID, barcode, serial number, manufacturer, supplier, location, purchase date, purchase cost, location, lease ID, or location. Your company will have less waste when you control your inventory. Waste is a big and unnecessary problem for all types of organizations from universities to law enforcement to corporations.

Asset management helps you reduce waste because it prevents you from ordering supplies you don't need. What often happens is you can't find the inventory you need so you buy more. When you know where everything is located, you use what you have and cut down on the expense of buying new inventory needlessly. That will free up money your business can use elsewhere. Not only that, you can cut back on storage space when you operate your inventory with peak efficiency.

Organizations of all sizes benefit from using a good asset management system. The money you spend on it will be recovered in the money you save by operating more efficiently. If you are looking for a way to reduce cost and improve profits, a system that reduces waste and improves efficiency is a good place to start.




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