How do you handle your electronic inventory?

#1

Post by cuil » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 11:43 PM UTC

Just made http://partlister.shanjitsingh.in/.

Wanted to know how everyone else manages their electronic component inventory (especially in labs, academic institutions and hacker groups).

Re: How do you handle your electronic inventory?

#2

Post by mschuster91 » Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 12:30 AM UTC

At a city government in Germany where I worked, everything that was worth real money (printers, PCs, notebooks, docking stations, screens) had ID stickers with barcodes on them, stuff that was considered "valueless" (mice, keyboards, cabling) not.

These stickers also doubled for tracking electrical safety checkings (mandatory 1year-period for food-stuff, 2-year for ITC stuff).

Re: How do you handle your electronic inventory?

#3

Post by eb0la » Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 3:12 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

At a city government in Germany where I worked, everything that was worth real money (printers, PCs, notebooks, docking stations, screens) had ID stickers with barcodes on them, stuff that was considered "valueless" (mice, keyboards, cabling) not. These stickers also doubled for tracking electrical safety checkings (mandatory 1year-period for food-stuff, 2-year for ITC stuff).

That's interesting. I work for a Telco company and we track inventory without stickers. I know we did; but not anymore.

Instead we have a CMDB (change management / inventory database) which tracks all items related to the business (like a router, user, link, or vpn connection).

For laptops, cellphones, etc. we track manufacturer serial numbers (which relates to support contracts). To avoid theft we use vendor tracking/remote disable/erase.

I hope this helps.