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Physical Asset Management: An Inventory or a Tool for Progress?

Physical asset management is sometimes confused with your inventory. It is actually very closely related to inventory but it differs slightly from it in the fact that the inventory only states what is available and where it is. While physical asset management also identifies where the losses occur making it easier to maximize profits.

There are many aspects in physical asset management which will help you to put your business/organization back on its profitable tracks. These are described briefly below:

1. Tracking of assets: right from the order to the physical delivery, it is recorded in the physical asset management. Later, this can show where and how the asset is performing at any given time, how much maintenance it incurs, and how much depreciation it suffered. This is invaluable when you need to make a business plan, or actualize a business performance plan.

2. Keeping track of movement: when an asset is moved from one place to another many times it is leaving a gap in the place where it was while filling a gap where it goes. Both the places it need to be added and it takes quite some maneuvering to be done when the asset shifting is done from one department to another; and keeping track of the assets can be daunting.

3. Avoiding duplication: The physical asset management will definitely help in avoiding duplication of any asset since it is properly tracked and documented.

4. Avoiding theft: The fact that everything is properly documented prevents theft since it is easy to find it out. The mistakes that occur during procurement and delivery too can be check when the physical asset management is in its right place.

5. Tax savings: The right management of assets will help in proper tax paying and prevent loss through delays, and improper evaluation.

6. Being in charge: physical asset management helps in giving an ‘in-control’ feeling because you know exactly what you have, where you have it and how much it is. This information will help you know your strength and capitalize on it.

7. Able to plan your resources: physical asset management will enable you to plan your resources optimally so as to get the best and most out of each of them. This would enable you to plan realistically whether it is for expansion or for optimization of profits.