If you’re in a logistics-intensive business, your vehicles are literally the wheels of your business. Your cars, cargo vans and trucks are indispensable to your enterprise, and hence they must be protected adequately. 

Now that doesn’t mean you send out escort parties out on the road with each of your vehicles. But you can achieve a similar level of security with GPS asset tracking. Not just security, you can have next-level transparency in vehicle management too.

GPS asset management lets you track the live locations for each of your assets through a streamlined, easy-to-use asset register. Like conventional asset tracking uses QR code asset tags, GPS asset tracking involves GPS trackers.

GPS trackers are battery-powered devices that you can attach to your vehicles. The tracker serves two purposes: it gives a unique asset identity to the vehicle and after regular intervals, pings the live location to the asset management software.

While QR code or RFID asset tags need you to scan them to update the location in the asset tracking software, GPS trackers do it automatically. Not just that, GPS trackers let you track assets from remote locations. The trackers come with an annual data plan and SIM card and can be plugged into the vehicle for power. This means you’ve got live location tracking for your vehicles no matter where they go.

Tracking your vehicles with itemit GPS asset management is pretty simple. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you set it up:

1. Create an asset profile for a vehicle. It’s a good idea to include the vehicle’s model, registration number and other details.
2. If the vehicle is driven by a specific driver, you can use the assignee feature to assign it to them.
3. Head to the Tags section. Here, you’ll need to add the GPS tracker’s IMEI number. You will find the 15-digit IMEI number on the back of the GPS tracker box. Just below the barcode. 
4. Once you’ve linked the GPS tracker with the asset profile, it will start updating the last seen location automatically. 
5. The itemit team will help you set the location update interval. Note that you can also use the update button to see where your asset is at any given moment. 

You can watch the video tutorial for GPS tracking setup too. itemit’s location tracking feature shows you a map to see the asset’s location history and all other details right from the app or web portal.

GPS Asset Management software holds revolutionary potential for your businesses’ logistics department. Apart from vehicles, this software can also be used to track other high-value assets. Although it’s an interesting topic, let’s not stray from the topic at hand. 

Here are some of the most common ways companies use GPS asset management.

When you’re managing a fleet of vehicles simultaneously, and all of them are operating on different routes at the same time, it can be a bit hard to keep track of things. itemit’s GPS asset management system lets you do it effortlessly. You can keep an eye on your entire fleet from one screen and ensure that they’re reaching their destinations timely.

If you’ve given out cars to your employees for business use, tracking them with GPS asset trackers is a good idea if you want to make sure the vehicles are not being used for non-work purposes. It also makes the driver more accountable and ensures their safety. Similarly, you can use itemit to keep track of personal or domestic cars to keep a check on where they’ve been.

GPS asset management is a great solution for admins to bring much-needed security and transparency into school transport. You can track location to make sure the vehicles stay on route and reach their destination on time.

If you run a taxi or car rental service, GPS asset management can be a great tool for you if you want an easy solution to tracking all vehicles at the same time.

You can use itemit’s GPS asset management software to track a wide range of assets, all from one place. One of the biggest reasons to go for itemit is that it will not only help with logistics but every department of your enterprise. 

It has highly customisable features which means you can track vehicles along with fixed assets, IT assets, tools and equipment. You can either keep all of them separately or together in your asset registers.

Also, you can combine and match a range of asset tracking technologies. You can use GPS asset trackers for your vehicles and QR code tags for other tools and equipment. This scalability makes it the best GPS asset tracking software you’ll find on the market. 

Our highly professional customer support is always here to answer your queries and solve problems for you. If you need a hand in setting up asset tracking, we’ll be there to help. To find out more about how itemit can help you track your vehicles, you can contact the team at team@itemit.com. You can also fill in the form below to start your 14-day free trial.

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In this guide:

1. How To Track Everything with Asset Tracking Software
2. Tracking Fixed Assets
3. Tracking IT Assets
4. Tools and Equipment Tracking
5. High-value Collection Audits
6. Personal Use
7. Conclusion

In this guide:

1. How To Track Everything with Asset Tracking Software
2. Tracking Fixed Assets
3. Tracking IT Assets
4. Tools and Equipment Tracking
5. High-value Collection Audits
6. Personal Use
7. Conclusion

A one-line answer would be: Yes, you can track everything with asset tracking software! Surprised? Let us tell you how.

Well, it’s not that you’ll even be tracking how many sticky notes you and your colleagues use per week. Unless that is exactly what you want to track! But yes, itemit’s asset tracking software will help you track anything and everything you want to keep logs on. 

But the important question here is, what do you need to track and why? It is always better to define your goals. 

You might be looking for asset tracking software to keep a close eye on your fixed assets for better audits. Or you might want an IT asset management system that can track each IT device in the office. Whatever your ultimate goal may be, itemit will prove instrumental for your asset tracking needs.

It all starts with adding an asset and making a simple asset profile. When you open the itemit asset tracking software, you can see three buttons in front of you on the home screen, Scan, Search and Add.

If you tap the ‘Add’ option, we take you to the ‘Add Item’ page where you can enter the name and description of the asset you want to track. 

Next, add a description for the item. An important note, perhaps, that you’d want everyone to read when they come across this asset. itemit automatically generates a unique serial number for every new asset added. If you choose to, you can also edit the serial number. 

You can save this information to officially add the new asset profile to the asset register, or you can add additional data like a profile picture, location, assignee, or tag the asset before saving.

Theoretically, this could be anything. You could add a laptop, a keyboard, a wifi router, or even your pencil. But before you get up and start adding all your stationery to the asset tracking software, you might want to remind yourself of your ultimate asset tracking goal to understand what to add to your asset register.

Most enterprises or individuals would use asset tracking software for the following purposes:

• Fixed Asset Tracking
• IT Asset Management
• Tools and Equipment Tracking 
• High-value Collection Audits
• Personal Use 

So let’s talk about the following and how itemit’s asset tracking software helps you do it all.

Fixed assets are things of value that you or your company owns and intends to use for more than a year. This simple definition tends to clear up a lot of confusion on what should and should not be tracked in a fixed asset register. 

Of course, this rules out temporary assets that won’t be used for more than a year. Stationery or edibles, for example. But it does include things like buildings, land, and digital assets like purchased software. An asset tracking software lets you create asset profiles and track all such assets. 

The purpose of a fixed asset register is to provide better accuracy when auditing your businesses’ assets and also to keep them well-maintained and maximise ROI. So tracking whatever item fulfils that goal, should be tracked.

Typically, every device that is a computer or can be connected in any way to a computer qualifies to be an IT asset. This includes laptops, desktops, servers, screens, mice, keyboards, smartphones, tablets, scanners, printers, projectors and even Wi-Fi routers. 

This list can go forever, so the definition we mentioned at the beginning of this section will help you better decide what items to add to your IT asset register. If you’re tracking your IT assets for GDPR compliance, see what you need to track to be compliant.

To answer the primary question, yes, you can track every IT asset with itemit quite effortlessly.

In this case, deciding what to track would be pretty straightforward. All tools and equipment that you use for your day-to-day work should be tracked. 

It depends on how granular you want to be. You can track each and every spanner and screwdriver if you want. Or you can resort to tracking toolkits rather than individual tools if that serves you better.

Be it valuable paintings, historical relics or bottles of wine. You can track your high-value asset collections with itemit and can keep an eye on them even from remote locations. 

You can also use RFID asset tracking to track asset locations automatically for assets you don’t want to track with a visible QR code tag.

When it comes to personal use, you can discover the true meaning of being able to track everything with asset tracking software. You can use it as your free household inventory app to track everything from collectables, stuff when moving your home or even your wardrobe. 

You can track the watering schedule for your house plants, or keep a record of your precious teacups, you name it.

Inarguably, one of the best things about itemit is its extreme scalability. Can you imagine that all of the asset tracking purposes we’ve talked about above can be implemented from a single app? 

It’s hard to believe but it’s true. Check out for yourself by taking a free 14-day trial by filling in the form below. You can also reach out to us at team@itemit.com if you’ve got any questions.

Instant access. No credit card details required.

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In this guide:

1. What’s the Secret to Santa’s Unmatched Management?
2. How Do Santa and His Elves Use Asset Tracking Software?
3. Christmas Present Visual Verification
4. Packing Up Presents
5. Loading Presents with Asset Tracking Software
6. Present Delivery
7. Try itemit For Yourself

In this guide:

1. What’s the Secret to Santa’s Unmatched Management?
2. How Do Santa and His Elves Use Asset Tracking Software?
3. Christmas Present Visual Verification
4. Packing Up Presents
5. Loading Presents with Asset Tracking Software
6. Present Delivery
7. Try itemit For Yourself

This Holiday season, you won’t find a better entrepreneur than Santa himself. With his team of elves, he’s managed to develop a global enterprise that’s famous for its world-class information management, spot-on customer support and impeccable service. 

Oh, and the robust logistics! Christmas presents are delivered just in time all over the world, and all to the right addresses. And Santa does it all with a big HO HO HO laugh! 

The earnest business owner is, no doubt, really impressed observing such effortless and professional operations management. How does he manage it all? 

Here are some business tips from Santa. These are nice to have, but he’s kept his most valuable practises secret. He won’t tell you even if you ask him!

Psst! We know them…

As we know, Santa’s not a one-man show. He’s got his team of elves that help him manage everything from receiving letters from all over the world, sourcing and building presents and delivering them on Christman eve. So, how does he manage to keep his business operations going smoothly at such a vast scale? 

Here’s the big reveal: All of this is made possible with itemit’s asset tracking software!

Santa and his elves have to deal with billions of presents every Christmas! With so many presents that have to be delivered to so many locations all over the globe, things can get hectic. There’s no other way Santa and company could make sure each present goes under the right Christmas tree if they didn’t have itemit.

It all begins when you write a letter to Santa about what you want for your Christmas present and post it over to the North Pole. As soon as the elves at the North Pole post office get your letter, they arrange your present and prepare it for delivery.

The elves use an asset tag to tag your present and set up an asset profile in the itemit app. This way all the other elves and Santa are notified that your present is ready to be packed and loaded onto Santa’s sleigh.

The itemit app also has an option to add images. The elves take a picture and upload it to the asset profile so that Santa can check if they got the right present for you. This way Santa doesn’t have to leave his warm office and can see each present right from his mobile phone or web portal. 

Yeah, Santa uses all that tech. How else do you expect him to run such agile operations!?

Once approved, your present moves to the next phase where it’s all packed up so it’s ready to deliver. As soon as your asset is packed, the elves scan your present’s asset tag to reach its asset profile and move it to the ‘packed and ready for loading’ category.

When the elves in the logistics department see that a present is ready for loading, they pick it up and load it on. They never forget to scan it once again so they can update the asset profile and move it to the ‘loaded presents’ list. 

With itemit, Santa has a clear overview of each phase. He can track your present right from the moment the elves bought it to when it was loaded onto his sleigh. Asset tracking software allows the elves to make sure no present goes missing or unreported all this time. But not just that, asset tracking has a crucial role to play when Santa is finally delivering presents.

So how does Santa remember all those addresses? How does he know which present goes where? Especially with everything packed up, there’s no way of differentiating one box from another! 

Santa tracks his assets, or presents, with itemit, and that helps him deliver the right present to the right address. As he flies on his sleigh, he scans your present with the itemit app and finds the asset profile. The elves have already recorded your address and all the other details he needs in the asset profile. And that is how Santa is able to deliver so many presents all over the world and get it perfect every time!

If you want your business to become as legendary as Santa’s, you’ve got to have itemit by your side. Its asset tracking software solution leads the industry with its extreme scalability. 

Just like Santa can share it with his elves for seamless collaboration, you can too! Your team members can view, add and monitor assets from wherever they are. itemit can help every department and can be used as a fixed asset register, for equipment tracking or high-value collection audits too!

To find more about how itemit can help you and your team of hardworking elves, reach out to our team at team@itemit.com. Or fill in the form below to start your free 14-day trial.

Instant access. No credit card details required.

or, download the itemit app to get started