Warehouse Operations for Deployment
Stalled and idle network assets are a well documented challenge for most network operators
Simple reports such as inventory aging can show evidence of the problem, which any basic Workflow Management System (WMS) can deliver. The root cause analysis lies deeper in a complex technical environment with thousands of item types, often millions of items owned, and tens of thousands of distributed nodes requiring a single source of truth. NetLife delivers this single source of truth in warehouse inventory management and tracks important status criteria that affect the usable profile of an item, either as a spare part or as a ‘child’ item within a ‘parent’ system.
NetLife SaaS maintains a real time, accurate, intelligent view of assets and their technical use, is central to network planning and maintenance decisions driving shareholder value
Identifying the problem at the financial level is a first important step in resolving asset related challenges, but root cause analysis shows that this is in fact a technical problem complicated by financial and procurement workflows. Where procurement is designed to deliver site-based asset measurements, configuration changes in the warehouse pre-deployment can render a site kit useless, so a dynamic approach to inventory management which allows item level changes is essential.