The printer fleet is
a corporate asset.
Printer asset management looks at a device through
its lifecycle and the fleet from the enterprise
perspective.
A printer life encompasses
purchase decisions
printer financials
maintenance
supplies management
retirement.
The enterprise perspective looks at the fleet
inventory using corporate metrics, comparisons and trends, making
decisions from a global, rather than, unit or commodity
basis.
Most solutions look at a snapshot in time to
track, optimise and identify cost savings. To do this,
approximations for costs are used.
Your print strategy tool should address inventory
and its changes through
time, maintenance, supplies and the associated
vendors.
The print strategy should include a device
retirement strategy with an
understanding of the corporation’s business
needs.
Devices are retired and added similar to any other
corporate asset. The strategy tool helps you to decide when to
retire printers, schedule orderly replacements, and identify which
model/manufacturer is most cost effective as a
replacement.
The printer asset management strategy should build
in compliance.
It is current best practice to ensure that all
data and systems are in compliance with regulatory
requirements.
