When we think of a company, the words management, employees, workplace, strategy, and clients are the first that come to mind. Yet, a task like managing assets, objects, or furniture is fundamental to ensuring smooth business operations.
Numerous problems can therefore arise concerning this thorny subject:
- Cost management: Purchase, rental or sale.
- Movement within the company: Currently in use? By whom? How? For how long?
- Product lifecycle: Functional, needs replacing or repair?
Furthermore, many companies also possess a significant number of items, which immediately complicates their administration. Listing all these items through inventories then becomes essential to facilitate their management and use.
Discover 3 types of tools that could make this task easier for you.
Storage professionals
Using a professional storage solution isn’t just beneficial for securing your company’s assets. Indeed, some innovative players in the sector, have decided to bring storage into the digital age. As easy to use as a SaaS platform, this service provides physical solutions for storing and managing your business assets.
The goal? To facilitate inventory management through complementary services accessible online.
The use of new technologies makes it possible to track all of a company’s items and thus know the status of its inventory in real time. Taking inventory can therefore now be done in just a few seconds. This represents a significant time saving for all companies that often spent entire days cataloging their items.
SaaS asset management software
If you prefer to manage everything internally, there are IT solutions that will optimize the management of your movable assets. This is the case with some SaaS (software as a service) applications which, through barcodes printed on labels and therefore affixed to each item, can create an ultra-precise map of a company’s assets.
You know exactly where any given piece of equipment is, at any time. This simplifies inventory management by providing a quick overview of the company’s assets and their usage in just a few clicks. With this software, say goodbye to unnecessary purchases and waste, and hello to significant savings! A definite plus for a company’s eco-responsible strategy, while also boosting internal finances.
The only drawback that can be seen with this tool is the rather high cost of this type of software (between 5 and 6 figures depending on the size of your stock and the implementation), as well as the complexity of use for the person in charge of general services.
The Internet of Things as a solution for the future
Finally, it’s worth examining a recent technology that could radically change how we manage a company’s assets and equipment: the IoT, or Internet of Things. This field has immense potential . As its name suggests, it allows any object to connect to the internet, enabling these elements to communicate with each other in the digital world. Bluetooth, which allows your computer to detect your speaker and play audio through it, is a concrete example.
This technology, also known as Web 3.0, is starting to find practical applications in inventory management. By using connected sensors like RFID (radio-frequency identification), tracking objects in real time is incredibly easy. Furthermore, the generated data can optimize the entire logistics process and facilitate time-consuming tasks such as inventory counts or tracking during transport.
