Keeping track of assets can be a challenge to organizations, both large and small. Assets can move locations, get reassigned to other people, get replaced, etc. Management wants reports about asset allocation, usage and service history. Accounting needs accurate data for tracking inventory and calculating depreciation.
Management wants reports about asset allocation, usage, and service history. Accounting needs accurate data for tracking inventory and calculating depreciation.
IT: Creating inventory (software/hardware), barcoding, tagging, disposal, software tools, warranty, software compliance level.
Site: Creating inventory, fixed and movable asset categorization, equipment and machinery tagging, asset evaluation.
Project: Asset movement, vendors, and new branches.
Finance: Physical asset evaluation, building database, providing vendors for insurance, charted accountant audits, depreciation report, compliance status.
There are many processes and tools to support the management of the information on assets and the maintenance of the assets. Depending upon the size and requirements of the organization, tools from manual paper-based systems, to spreadsheets, to EAMS (enterprise asset management systems), and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems have been effectively used.
The critical issues are to select the processes and tools most appropriate for your organisation and to use them effectively. These situations can cause poor quality or inaccurate data, as users see no value to the systems, inefficient processes with considerable manual intervention where the processes are not optimised for the system used, and duplicate data entry or use of manual entry when the systems could better manage the data. The final result is often considerable investment in systems with little of the promised benefit achieved.
Outsourcing is the complete process management from Requirement gathering, procurement, Asset delivery, asset tagging, allocation and deallocation and Finally asset disposal.
According to the number of assets and size of the organization, you need to dedicate a team to handle assets