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There are many different types of inventory that you can manage. Inventory can be any goods, materials, or services, physical or intangible. Our system subsets all inventory into 5 categories, including standard, serialized, serialized with quantity, batch/lot inventory, and non-inventory items.
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Inventory includes your on-hand products and all the input materials used in the creation of those items. This could include assembled and processed parts or raw materials. Assets, on the other hand, are objects necessary to conduct business properly, whether physical or non-physical. These could include office supplies, audio-visual equipment and more.

You can add inventory into our Inventory Management Systems by conducting the Receive Transaction.
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There are a few ways to deal with excess inventory depending on your goals and business. In our systems, there are options to record your actions. Some examples include, if you decide to dispose of the excess inventory or if you decide to move the excess inventory to a different location.
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Barcodes serve as unique identifiers that store your inventory information in an easy-to-process format, including size, color, location and more! We highly recommend barcodes as they improve accuracy, provide real-time inventory data, and come at a low cost. This increases your return on investment and improves the efficiency of your inventory control processes.
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In our Inventory Management Software, inventory breakdown is when you wish to break down an inventory stock item into multiple items. This is useful when you want to disassemble items into smaller components. These smaller components will be in our Inventory Tracking System as well after you've completed the breakdown process.
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Inventory Forecasting analyzes historical data of all your inventory to identify trends in your business. In essence, by implementing an inventory tracking system equipped with forecasting tools, you can make data-driven decisions with strategic insights on supply and demand in your business.
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Our Inventory Tracking Systems are versatile and capable of handling any type of inventory you may have, whether it is standard or specialized! Our software has been implemented by customers across a myriad of industries, including but not limited to the Education, Government, Military, Warehousing, Healthcare and many more sectors.
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A warehouse management system is a software solution that maximizes visibility over all inventory in your warehouses or stockrooms. It helps you automate repetitive tasks, streamline material flows and optimize the usage of resources, labor and space for your growing business. We offer industry-leading solutions for Warehouse Inventory Management Systems. Learn more about our Warehouse Inventory Systems here ->

Yes, our industry-leading Inventory System can be implemented as an On-Premise Inventory Management Software, hosted on your facilities. Our On-Premise database comes in 3 hosting options: Interval Server, Internal Server and Web Services as well as Cloud-Hosted and Web Services. Learn more about the On-Premise Systems here ->

Asset tracking software lets businesses manage and control physical and non-physical assets their organizations use. Our asset management systems help companies look through and analyze their asset data, its status, its conditions, and more! Learn more about our Asset Tracking Software features here ->

Fixed assets are defined as any 'permanent' object that a business uses internally including but not limited to computers, tools, software, or office equipment. While employees may utilize a specific tool or tools, the asset ultimately belongs to the company and must be returned. Learn more about how we help you take control of your fixed assets here ->

The asset life cycle includes every step or event that an asset goes through, from acquirement to maintenance to disposal. It’s imperative to implement an asset life cycle management system to ensure that your items and resources, whether physical or non-physical, are in optimal condition for streamlined operations.

Asset maintenance refers to regular, semi-regular or one-time maintenance events that an item in the possession of your business might have to go through. In our asset tracking system, we designed specific procedures to make sure that every maintenance request and action done on your assets are documented. Learn more about our asset tracking software can help your business maintain your assets ->

IT Asset Management, or ITAM, is the process where an organization’s assets are documented, maintained, upgraded as well as disposed of when appropriate. IT assets consist of tangible and intangible items, which include things like computers, keyboards, laptops, electronics, hardware, software licenses and many more!
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Similar to the inventory side, we have Receive Transactions for our asset tracking software as well. This can be done through data import too, whether that is an Excel or CSV file format.

Your organization might incorporate several offices with a vast amount of assets in different locations. When you use our asset management software, a barcode label is attached to your items and asset tracking is done in our systems. This leaves you with a visible and well-documented audit trail, acting as a single source of truth that provides you with accurate asset data.

With our asset tracking software, your asset data gets consolidated in one place for your ease of access and use. With asset data consolidated in one place, we also make it easy for you and your staff to analyze that data to improve the efficiency of your operations. We also help you reduce asset downtime and increase the longevity of your asset’s lifespan with regular maintenance schedules.
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Yes, our industry-leading Asset Tracking System can be implemented as an On-Premise Asset Management Software, hosted on your facilities. Our On-Premise database comes in 3 hosting options: Interval Server, Internal Server and Web Services as well as Cloud-Hosted and Web Services. Learn more about the On-Premise Systems here ->

Yes, our asset management software works across all industries, including the Energy Sector. We can help your business efficiently manage fixed assets, equipment and many more for oilfield services, completions, drilling as well as solar companies. Learn more about our Asset Tracking System for the Energy Sector here ->

Information for that item will auto-populate into the data fields when adding new items to our Inventory and Asset Tracking Software. Alternatively, it automatically marks a transaction made in our system, whether you are checking-out assets, moving inventory or requesting maintenance To learn more about how barcodes work with our systems, please click here ->

Yes, our systems include a feature where you can design and customize Barcodes and QR Codes. These Barcodes and QR Codes can be printed directly from our systems or exported in a compatible format.
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With barcodes, there is a low barrier of entry, meaning you only a few tools to get started. Besides that, barcodes are fairly straightforward, and your staff won't require much training to be productive. Barcodes also provide the opportunity to collect real-time usage data on your organization's inventory assets, so your stakeholders can efficiently make informed business decisions. To learn more about our barcode inventory system and asset tracking software, click here ->

Our Barcode Inventory System lets you configure both barcodes and QR codes depending on what you need for your inventory management workflows. These two unique identifiers differ in appearance and dimension. Barcodes contain information in a linear horizontal direction while QR codes store information in 2 directions. As a result, QR codes are capable of holding more information than a barcode. Don't know whether your organization needs barcodes or QR codes? Learn about which suits your business’ inventory management needs more here->

To become a system administrator, contact our support team. Please note that the current system administrator in your organization will have to contact our Support team for this.

Yes, our Inventory System and Asset Tracking Software records historical data for inventory and assets in the systems. There will be comprehensive audit trails and configurable reports ready whenever you need them.

Our Inventory Software integrates with Quickbooks Accounting software to streamline manual tasks like generating bills, invoices and receipts. This works through syncing data like inventory stock items, vendor information, customer information and more from Quickbooks into our systems. Learn more about this system integration here ->

Any currency, but only 1 at a time.

Yes, our Inventory Control and Asset Management Systems are fully configurable, allowing you to add data fields and categories specific to your business, inventory and assets.

No, we are not involved in the point-of-sale side of Inventory and Asset Tracking.

An Authority to Operate letter is a certification for software by the U.S. government for it to be used on-site. We do not have this. However, we are SOC2 certified, meaning that for customers that prefer data hosted on our cloud-based systems, we keep our client’s data private and secure.

We have several notable integrations including:

• Google Workspace 
• Active Directory 
• Office 365 
• Zapier 
• SAML 2.0 
• Quickbooks and many more! 

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Our systems provide a big variety of reports that are fully configurable for your inventory management and asset tracking needs. These include:

• Physical Inventory Count Reports
• Asset Counts Reports
• Asset Maintenance Reports
• Inventory Trends Forecast Reports
• Vacant Locations Reports
• Historical Inventory Reports
• And Many More!

• iOS devices.
  • This includes iPhones and iPads, starting from iPhone 4 or higher
• Android devices that use the Android 5.0 or newer operating systems.
  • Devices that have cameras that utilize AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistant technology are preferred most of the time as that can help your employees scan barcodes.

These are both hosting options offered in our Inventory Software and Asset Management Systems. Essentially, the cloud based inventory system or asset tracking software hosts your database online through a cloud storage service. With the On-Premise option, your database is hosted onsite at your facilities or offices.

We’ve been in the industry for 30 years and counting!

Yes, you would need to buy hardware to scan barcodes. Alternatively, you or your employees could download our Mobile App to scan barcodes on your iOS or Android devices. Learn more about our mobile app here ->

While we do sell hardware, it is sold as an optional add-on to the purchase of our Inventory Control and Asset Management Systems. Please contact our support team at (support email) if you need specifications of hardware compatible with our software.

We would be more than happy to help you with that! Please contact our support team at (operations@asapsystems.com).

The development of AI has revolutionized the field of logistics. This gives us powerful tools to automate and simplify numerous processes, helping companies as well as employees save both time, resources and money. Tasks that are repetitive and mundane take up less space in our minds, offering you better focus on the status of inventory and assets.

In terms of expenses, proper inventory control helps you utilize available space by ensuring you only have stock the inventory you need. With a good system, you can even optimize your storage space and cut costs to improve your bottom line.

Efficient and accurate asset management improves your business practice with more informed decisions, improved regulatory compliance, better asset reliability as well as an increased return on investment from a better understanding of your asset lifecycle.

The real-time updates and historical asset data means every step your asset makes is documented. This provides a comprehensive and airtight audit trail as information is compiled for your convenience, resulting in smoother work processes and a better-informed decision can be made, which is beneficial to companies.

A CMMS digitalizes asset maintenance and makes it easier for you to manage asset downtime and upkeep. This helps you effectively balance your resources and maintenance costs to minimize backlogs, optimize your maintenance schedule, on top of increasing asset lifespans. Our Asset Management Software also acts as a CMMS with an efficient asset tracking system, providing you with end-to-end asset life cycle management.

Performing preventive maintenance prolongs the life of your equipment, reduces downtime, decreases reactive maintenance requests, helps you manage compliance and inspection needs, and prevents costly emergency repairs from occurring.

Our customers have used our systems to manage items in a myriad of industries. Here are a few examples:

• From K12 schools to universities and vocational institutions
• Fire departments
• Aviation industry
• Nuclear power plants
• Military
• Restoration work
• Chemicals
• Vaccines
• Medical Supplies and many more!

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