TechBrief - CG4 Barcode Best Practices

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 04:50


Where to Start
Some customers are not certain where they should start when beginning to track their assets more thoroughly.

Track IT Equipment
Many of our customers focus a large percentage of their asset tracking efforts on tracking their IT equipment.

Use Unique Identifier As The Barcode
Most commonly a unique identifying barcode is all that is necessary to track your assets. The handheld scanner matches the barcode and then pulls up the relevant asset record. Some companies decide to include text information in the barcode. It is quite a bit more effort and usually yields minimal incremental benefits.

Use Simple Barcode Format
Many great new barcode formats are available. Some of the barcodes can store a great deal of information, but most of our customers have been able to accomplish all their asset tracking desires by using simple, standard barcodes.

TechBrief - Asset Tracking Basics

Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 06:12


Start Asset Tracking
The following are some ideas to help you get going with your asset tracking. Some of you may already be doing some or all of it so you can scan through this to see if there are any ideas that could help your organization. If you are not sure if you should take the effort to track assets look at the Return on Investment information.

Decide What to Track
1 - Many customers review their biggest exposure and quickest return on investment and decide to focus their asset tracking efforts on their IT equipment.

2 - After deciding what dollar value of assets and what type of assets you want to track, you need to determine a unique identifier for each asset.