White Paper: Choosing The Right Asset Management Tool For Your Operation

The most vital function of any municipal communications shop is providing effective, communications equipment to government professionals whose jobs—and sometimes lives—depend on optimized and readily available two-way radios.

When a police officer walks into the city's radio communications shop to drop off a radio for repair, the officer must be able to complete the transaction and get back on the street in minutes. When a fire fighter needs a new radio battery, he or she cannot wait in the lobby for a half hour while the right one is located. And if a public works employee breaks an antenna while out on a job, taking too long to get that radio back in service means decreased productivity and increased cost for the city.

But beyond ensuring equipment availability, rapid repair, and efficient maintenance processing, operations managers are also responsible for inventory accountability, which often ranges into millions of dollars – all purchased with taxpayer funds.

Asset management solutions can be as rudimentary as a log book or a basic Excel spreadsheet, or as expensive as a sophisticated enterprise-wide tool that can cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on the high end. The challenge is to find the right solution that fits your particular business.