We are proud of the work we've done for our clients. Each project and each client has a story and a lesson for us. We've collected a few representative experiences to illustrate what Asset Inventories can do, how we addressed some difficult challenges, and how our clients used the results of our contribution.


The Client: United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. The work of the United Nations reaches every corner of the globe. Although best known for humanitarian assistance, the UN works on a broad range of fundamental issuesin order to achieve its goals and coordinate efforts for a safer world for this and future generations.

The Challenge

The United Nations is getting a facelift, and the rebuilding effort includes a complete renovation of almost all UN properties in the Metropolitan New York and Long Island areas. They needed a way to account for all their fixed and high technology assets (approximately 130,000), move all those assets and personnel to temporary locations – sometimes the same assets 2 or 3 times to different locations – and account for the assets again at the new locations.

The Solution

Asset Inventories deployed “hosted” inventory teams that worked full-time on-site for the United Nations and helped manage all aspects of the inventory changes and asset tracking. First, we coordinated and managed a full wall-to-wall inventory of all UN fixed and high technology assets. Second, in order to be sure that the baseline inventory data was of the highest order of accuracy, we initiated a massive reconciliation effort to account for missing, new, and out-of-service assets. Third, after the baseline wall-to-wall was complete we set up “move” teams specifically designed to manage the back-and-forth nature of the asset moves. These move teams performed all pre-move and post-move auditing, as well as managing the back-end data normalization and reconciliation within the UN asset repositories. As a result, the many and various group movements and re-movements required during the renovation were, from an asset management perspective, practically seamless.