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Asset Tracking Solutions

If your organisation is losing valuable assets or spends an unacceptable amount of time keeping track of assets then Barcode Products has a solution for you.  Using barcodes makes tracking assets quick, accurate and easy.

Wasp MobileAsset
Wasp MobileAsset kit	Wasp MobileAsset is a comprehensive asset management solution that runs on a powerful handheld terminal and PC.  Add, remove, edit, loan, retrieve and audit your assets on the handheld then download it to the PC.  Use the PC to add photos, record financial data and much much more.  Comes with more than 40 asset reports.  MobileAsset is the complete asset tracking solution.  Supplied as a package with software and hardware or optionally as software only. Used by dozens of NZ organisations including NZ Defence Force, ACC, schools and colleges.  We've even installed MobileAsset at Tonga's international airport to keep track of it's assets. For further details click here: Software only:                   Standard Edition   Pro Edition Software and handhelds:  Standard Edition   Pro Edition
Barcode Tracker for Assets
Barcode Tracker for Assets	Barcode Tracker for Assets is an asset management solution that runs on a simple handheld terminal and a Microsoft Access database.  Barcode Tracker allows you to Add, remove, and check your assets on the handheld then download it to the PC.  Using the Access database on the PC you can edit and report on your data very easily.   Comes with a terminal, cradle, USB cables, software and 1000 labels.  Buy this package and you'll setup and be tracking your assets in no time at all.  Does not include Microsoft Access. Click here for more details
Barcode Asset Tracker
Barcode Asset Tracker	By far the simplist solution, Barcode Asset Tracker is based around the Metrologic Optimus S handheld Terminal.  This package allows you to record asset locations and asset codes and download them to an Excel compatible file.  The handheld has been programmed to collect the data.  You decide what do do with the data when you get it. Kit includes an Optimus S Handheld Terminal, cradle and cables and asset collection software for the handheld terminal.  Microsoft Excel not included. Click here for more details.

• Barcodes are the simplest, quickest and most accurate way to track physical assets. 
• Barcodes make it possible for anyone in the organisation (even temps and contractors) to accurately identify assets.  No need to have experts spend their valuable time ticking assets off sheets of paper.
• Using a low cost handheld scanner you can scan a room of assets in minutes, download it to a computer and complete a check of assets in a fraction of the time it takes with paper.  No more re-keying from clipboards.
• Barcode readers are hundreds of thousands of times more accurate than people at recording numbers and text.
• Using handheld computers you can record asset information at the asset, rather than in the office - keeping data as accurate as possible.
• Keeping your asset data on the network means you can share it and protect it.
• The loss of just a few valuable assets can pay for an asset management system, leading to a payback for your investment in months not years.
• You can provide your accountants with an accurate list of assets at the touch of a button (well, a few touches)
  

1. Decide your budget for the project - what's the likely value of lost assets?  How much time do you need to spend in order to manage your assets - barcode systems will make a huge improvement to the time it takes to manage assets using paper.
2. Decide who will be responsible for your asset management.  They will be responsible for the job of adding and removing asset records.  They will also manage the process of labelling everything that needs to be tracked and ensuring there is a regular check of assets.  With no one responsible for it, it won't happen!
   
3. Decide what you want to track.  Not everything is depreciable, so you might not need to track those items.  Other items such as digital cameras are usually worth less than the 'capitalisation' level for most organisations, but they are easy to lose so tracking them is important.
4. Decide if you want to track assets being lent to staff or customers.
5. Decide what information (reports) you want out of the system i.e. where the assets are, what the assets are, who has them, when they were moved or changed, when they were last checked, if they've been taken off the asset register (and why) and many other answers.
6. Order your pre-printed barcode labels (complete with your logo) from us.  These labels are designed to be waterproof, wipe-proof and scratch-resistant.  We supply them in boxes of 1000 in a range of sizes to suit you.
7. Create your asset database.  We are able to handle the importation of data if you want us to.  (You can only create asset records on the handheld using the MobileAsset solution).
8. Label up your locations (put a barcode label on the door to the room) so you can match the asset to a location.
9. Stick a barcode to your assets and record the number in the database, along with the asset description.
10. Keep a regular record of assets being added to your register and more importantly, assets going out.
11. Undertake regular (at least annual) checks of assets.  More frequent for valuables or assets that 'walk'.
12. Read the reports and manage your assets.