Assets, Demos & Loaners
WHY?
- Where are the assets? With who? Location and custody tracking of company assets is a fundamental safeguard that cannot be compromised
- Significant value in the balance sheet with continuing additions every year
- Revenue generating assets need to be available in the right place at the right time in the right condition
- Risk of misuse, damage, misappropriation and loss
- Frequent movement and change in custody warrants dynamic controls to track and reconcile
- Upkeep, service needs, quality considerations and periodic inspections
- No confusion and no disputes on accountability for custody of assets at any point in time
LISTING AND CLASSIFICATION
- Build category hierarchy
- Define states in context of your business and type of assets
- Upload the first list of existing assets - set protocols to update additions, deletions and changes
- Capitalize assets from stock - specially for demos and loaners
- Flagging and retiring assets
- Leverage groupings and kits to make it easier to manage when items are identified, moved and/or stored in sets
ALLOCATION RULES - USERS
- Define user allocation rules by asset category - who can request for what, central allocation vs by-request, active for allocation by-state
- Perform tagging of customers - ability for sales staff and asset controllers to tag customers to allocations
- Define allocation authorization rules
- Management of allocations at the unit level so that different types of assets can be managed by separate teams
- Selection of user for an allocation is optional
ALLOCATION RULES - 3rd PARTY
- Define 3rd party allocation rules by asset category
- Ability for channel partners to view allocations made to them
- Ability for channel partners to confirm allocations made to them
- Deeper multilevel allocation tracking - ability for channel partners to tag their customers on active allocations made to them
- View audit trail of which customers have been tagged to an allocation
- Capture comments for allocations
DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS
- Allocation: requests and response by assets controller
- Scheduling: calendar view of booking of assets
- Ability for sales staff request allocations for a future date
- Ability for asset controller to add allocations for a future date
- Ability for asset controller to view allocation requests scheduled for the future
- Ability for asset controller to action scheduled allocation requests
- Transfer-In: moved from A to B - Printable document for asset movement from one account location to another
- Custody: clearly defined accountability on a shared set of common records
- Transfer-Out: moved from B to C - users can initiate return for an asset in their custody
ASSET DATA RECORDS
- Asset lists by category with current state, custody, location etc.
- Alerts for upcoming activity - new allocations, starting and ending of custody, scheduling etc.
- Allocation history - use to measure productivity etc.
- Audit history for movement of assets from one account location to another