The Vast Advantages Of Electronic Asset Tracking Explored

Asset tracking can be done electronically or manually

. Manual asset tracking is where people are tasked with the job of keep track of assets: like where, rather that using bar-coding and CCTV technology, a supermarket simply employs people to keep a watchful eye against shoplifters. It is also like where an organization, keen on keeping track of its assets, employs someone and gives her a book to be logging the incomings and outgoings of its assets. This would also be the situation where the same organization equips its truck drivers with mobile phones or radio call systems, with instructions for them to be calling the offices after every so many minutes, to report on their progress.

Now, without a doubt, such manual asset tracking is better than having no asset tracking at all. Yet when it is looked at against electronic asset tracking, it loses its luster because the latter is better than it in almost every way. Here are some of the vast advantages associated with electronic asset tracking, when looked at against manual asset tracking:

The effectiveness advantage: we all know that human beings are no match to machines in tasks requiring attention to detail and speed. And asset tracking happens to be one such task. Commit it to a computer, and you can be sure that as long as the computer is working optimally, the tracking will be properly done, 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the life of the system. The computer is not like the human being, who is prone to attention lapses. It can also keep track of vast amounts of data. Inexplicable losses, which are common occurrences in human-based asset tracking systems, tend to be unheard of with regard to computer-based asset tracking systems. That is the case unless the security of the system can be compromised (which is rather hard with modern systems).

The convenience advantage: electronic asset tracking systems tend to work automatically. This means that there is no need for human intervention, which is important for people who feel that the constant human attention which is part of manual asset tracking systems is an intrusion. The electronic asset tracking system, on the other hand, is a keen but unobtrusive eye in the background one which intrudes on no one, expect one who has intentions to sabotage the assets in question. Theoretically speaking, this looks like a small advantage. But in practice, it is a huge advantage: like where the progress of an organization's vehicles can be monitored quietly online, rather than having the drivers call in' every few minutes.

The (long term) cost advantage: in the short term, an electronic asset tracking system may call for hefty investment in the equipment required to make it a possibility. But in the long term, the fact that it doesn't need to be baby-sat all the time, combined with its far superior effectiveness, makes it a far more cost effective approach to asset tracking than the manual system. In any case, the pricing of the gadgets required to initiate electronic asset tracking has been falling over the years, to an extent where even organizations with very limited budgets can benefit from it.

The Vast Advantages Of Electronic Asset Tracking Explored

By: Amber Mckinney

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