Johannesburg, 06 Dec 2016
Making the most of your resources is the route to attaining the best value for your investment. Be those resources furniture, equipment or anything else that is critical for your business to operate, they all need to be managed and maintained to perform at their best and deliver their value.
The time cost of having to procure new equipment, implement or train on a replacement piece of equipment, or the associated loss in productivity for the breakdown of a critical piece of machinery, or the real cost of lost or stolen business tools interrupting your customer service and experience....could be further reaching that you imagine !
Effective asset management is thus as critical to your business as any other activity, the problem with asset management activities such as audits is that they are only conducted once, twice or maybe a few times a year and the rest of the time the solution is merely a database that may be added to and queried from time to time.....it's not an everyday activity and is thus not something anybody in your organisation may be proficient at or remember how to do when required to.
Re-training of employees costs almost the same as an audit might, not to mention distracting the intended focus of an employee to track, trace, identify, locate, tag or audit assets. This is a very real cost, seldom considered.
So an ideal solution needs to be one that has a simple and easy to use user interface on top of a database providing basic functionality to add, remove, update, edit and query your assets and the balance of the activities should be outsourced to an experienced and independent service provider, that is paid as and when you need them to conduct take-ons, tagging or audits.
Cradle Technology Services will launch its new asset management as a service (AMAAS) offering, limited functionality Facets Lite on Google Play Store, the new cloud based Facets Cloud and enchanced On-Premise products in Q1 of 2017 that will meet these needs.
The asset management as a service (AMAAS) offering will include:
* Upfront consulting engagement on asset policies such as receiving, labelling, disposal, and auditing.
* Practical training course on physical asset management.
* Upfront data analysis and catalogue preparation.
* Implementation of physical asset management software including setup, documentation, report setup, user acceptance testing and integration setup.
* Training and hand holding on the scanning system.
* Annual review, renewal and retraining on system, including additional setup services.
* Support and maintenance of the solution.
* Assistance with tagging and auditing.
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