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How can i manage low-value assets?
How can i manage low-value assets?

Managing GWG's (low-value assets) in seventhings.

Corinna Hahnefeld avatar
Written by Corinna Hahnefeld
Updated over a year ago

You have multiple options here:

Option 1: Managing the data on low-value assets

Meaning that you label the low-value asset with a scan code and maintain them in seventhings, just like any other object.

Advantages:

  • Traceable data management

  • Possibility for the traceable return into the product-life-cycle

  • Management of the low-value objects, which in cases of a bigger number of these objects, still represent a great value in the company

Disadvantages:

  • Increased effort for initial maintenance and follow-up inventories

  • Process of labelling new objects is mostly up to the individual companies themselves

  • Clarification of the clear separation on site - what is mandatory to be capitalised and must be merged with the data records in the accounting system, and what is not.

Tip:

You can also link objects together and save them under a collective item. We will show you how to do that here.

Option 2: Labelling the objects with a "low-value object - not relevant for inventory"-label

You are labelling the low-value asset with an informative label but don't assign a scancode nor maintain it in seventhings.

Advantages:

  • Clear identification of which objects should be inventoried and which shouldn't

Disadvantages:

  • Increased effort for initial maintenance and follow-up inventories

  • No further information on the object - sustainable management is difficult

Option 3: no labelling of low-value assets

You don't affix an informative label, nor do you assign a scan code, and thus you do not maintain the object in seventhings.

Advantages:

  • Less effort for inventory and labelling of new objects

Disadvantages:

  • Assignment during inventories is slightly more difficult, as the employee doing the inventory could ask why an object does not have a label (although most employees actually only go to objects that already have a label attached, the search for missing objects usually takes place afterwards )

  • Pure inventory of capitalized assets - acceptance or motivation for inventory by users partly lower

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