When it comes to asset tracking implementation, the numerous potential advantages for your business are undeniable. It’s something you need to start looking into if you haven’t done so already. But if you think about the process itself, in order for it to be fully advantageous for your company, its implementation ought to follow some kind of procedure—in other words, it is extremely important to start on the right foot to make it profitable.
If you need to know just how to do this, please follow the next lines closely!
1. Evaluate the expectations and requirements set by your business
First step is usually defining how asset tracking should meet these needs and how you could develop an asset tracking system, what you would need in order to reach an objective, how much you could allocate toward that and come to a final decision only after some thorough thinking.
2. Start tracking vehicles and mobile assets as soon as you get them
If you track all the assets you use from the very first day of their acquisition, it will yield a good deal of information over time, not only by way of checking your ongoing asset tracking processes, but also the data necessary in order to make decisions on the lifespan of your vehicles.
3. Eliminate unusable or deteriorated assets
Once asset tracking is started it is probably an opportune moment to get rid of those assets that fall into the “old van in the yard” category; the ones that are no longer used and maintained, and cannot for that reason be used. In this way you will tidy up your vehicle inventory and make sure you are tracking the best resources.
4. Determine responsibility for the assets
Though this isn’t ordinarily easy to ascertain, as asset use and management is often spread among different staff, determine far more accurately just who is responsible for what—which drivers, transport managers, fleet managers etc. are responsible for different aspects of your operation. Reinforce that responsibility by updating your company policy and circulating it.
5. Assign a unique reference to every asset
Make sure you do not assign duplicated numbers or references to your assets so as not to waste time and effort, and create a precision tool to track your fleet.
