Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Track Your Assets From Cradle To Grave With Asset Management Software

By Darren Folkes


Keeping close track of your inventory is important to your profit margin. Without tracking your assets from cradle to grave, they can be lost due to theft, mishandling, or oversight. Having a well thought out asset management plan is imperative whether you have a few assets or carry a multi-million dollar inventory.

Setting up an advanced asset management system is fairly easy today because of new, sophisticated software. Using the right software along with RFID tags allows you to track every asset throughout its lifespan. This type of system lets you keep tabs on your profit margin while you know where each of your assets is at any time. 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 properly is a great help with inventory control as well. You will more easily know when it is time for maintenance or retirement of your equipment and ordering supplies becomes streamlined. Storing warranties and insurance policies is another function of asset management software. You will be able to recover much quicker from a disaster when your business assets are organized. 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 labor 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. Viewing the accumulated data on a computer monitor in a visual display makes it much easier to manipulate and comprehend.

This allows you to create user-defined fields for organizing your inventory by location, lease ID, serial number, RFID, bar code, manufacturer, supplier, product name, purchase cost, purchase date, and any other factor you consider important to your business operation. Controlling your assets means less waste. Waste is a big problem in many businesses including law enforcement, universities, and corporations.

Asset management helps you reduce waste because it prevents you from ordering supplies you don't need. You may have inventory you can't locate so you buy more because you have a pressing need for it. If you know where every single piece of inventory is located, you eliminate the cost of buying things you don't need. That will save money you can put to use in another area of your business. Not only that, you can cut back on storage space when you operate your inventory with peak efficiency.

There are many benefits to implementing an asset management system in your organization no matter what kind of products you need to track. The expense of setting up the system will be recovered in the money you save by being more efficient. When you need a way to increase profits and reduce costs, implementing a system that improves efficiency and reduces waste is a great place to start.




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