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It’s that time of the year again and peak season 2022 feels different. With supply chains and global economies in flux, businesses have a lot to consider. Shipping woes are subsiding in many areas – consider that a year ago, the queue at the Port of Long Beach, California was approaching a peak of 110 vessels, down to eight freighters in September of this year. East coast ports in the US and others around the globe are seeing rising tides.

Laws vary by state. That’s expected. Fairbanks, Alaska, enacted a law prohibiting the provision of alcoholic beverages to moose, so don’t even think about it. In a part of Washington State, good luck trying to kill Bigfoot. (Not because Bigfoot doesn’t exist, but specifically because it’s illegal per a 1969 law.) But what happens when state-specific regulations are used to address a topic that transcends geographic boundaries like, say, the internet?

Worried about how you can streamline operations within your company? Keeping track of internal processes, especially managing assets (regardless of their type), is an important task that calls for greater accountability and efficiency. Effective asset management can help you save time, effort, and money, gather valuable insights to make an informed decision and get acquainted with factors that could influence your organization’s growth.

Fixed asset management is a key to a business’s ability to generate revenue, companies must keep track of their assets’ location, quantity, condition, and depreciation status. However, this can be a difficult task for businesses of any size.

IT assets are a crucial part of any organization, and IT asset lifecycle management of performance and efficacy throughout helps ensure smooth operations. Otherwise, you risk incurring significant costs from downtime, data breaches, and other issues.

‍Financial companies have lots of assets that are valuable and these assets such as laptops, mobiles etc. contain crucial information that is crucial for business continuity and for maintaining SLAs and TATs. Not too surprisingly, even financial sector entities such as banking institutions, lending services, brokerage firms face several issues due to mismanagement of assets. As a result, they suffer from asset misplacement, asset theft, decreased productivity, and unknown asset movement.

Although the word “contract” immediately takes us to the Legal department, it also has a lot to do with IT. Having a proper contract lifecycle management of IT and software assets not only helps organizations to reduce costs, but if connected to the assets themselves, it becomes an effective way to boost productivity. The easiest and quickest way to do this is using as your contract lifecycle management software – on top of being your ITAM tool. How?

Alloy Software Inc. today unveils a brand-new mobile experience for end-users of its Alloy Navigator ITAM/ITSM suite. The new app offers mobile users the ability to report issues and track their progress, request services from the IT team, search for answers in the knowledge base, reserve equipment for temporary use, and more.

A replenishment system's purpose is to place the right amount of inventory at the right place at the right time. It's a basic problem yet requires complex execution. Over the years, product explosion, location additions and contractions, omnichannel shopping, and fulfillment option expansion have made replenishment challenging.