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Barcodes for tracking your assets
Posted by Harry Jassal on October 10, 2017
Does your business often
- Lose items or employees forget to return them, sometime they don't remember if they handed the item over to someone else?
- Have to go through hundreds of pages of notebooks, excel sheets or registers to find out:
- Who has what?
- When the item (equipment, gear, construction tools) are due to return?
- When they (employees, contractors, sub-contractors, branches) had an item issued to them?
- When an item was purchased?
- When is the next scheduled maintenance due?
Well you're not the only one, they are a lot of businesses out there who manage their assets manually, there are many businesses who don't even bother to write down who has what, when the maintenance is due etc... This keeps happening until a business realises that they have lost (went missing, never returned, didn't get serviced on time so it's crook and can't be fixed anymore) couple of hundred thousands $$ worth asset(s) in total. Commonly tracked assets include:
Furniture and operational non-inventory
- IT assets like laptops, PDAs and servers
- Equipment
- Evidence
- Tools and vehicles
- Files and documents
How can you manage it better?
You can start using a complete asset tracking system which may include
- An Asset tracking software - Installed on your computer or can be cloud based
- A Barcode Scanner bluetooth - To scan barcodes when checking-in or checking-out assets to anyone for anything.
- A Barcode scanner (PDA/Mobile type) optional- if you have more than 1 site close to each other and you want to go records on the go (mobile)
- Barcode tags or labels (Synthetic, Plastic, Aluminium) - You will need to tag/label all assets with their unique barcode.
- Barcode & label printer - To print high quality and rugged barcodes and labels, you will also need blank labels and ribbons (thermal ink) to print (Optional - if you want to do in house barcode and label printing)
We at barcode Products work closely with world class vendors to find the best solution for your asset tracking requirements. We pride ourself to listen to your requirements, workflow, your existing systems, ideal system features & benefits etc and then investigate a solution for you so that you get the best outcome possible.