COVID-19: What ITAD Challenges are Global Enterprises Faced with Today?
Major challenges facing enterprises today as they manage their global ITAD programs. Learn how you can overcome challenges brought on by the pandemic.
Category: IT Asset Tracking
ITAD: 4 Strategies for Managing Risk and Data Security
An ITAD program needs to consider corporate risk management, business continuity and data security policies. These can all impact a global ITAD program.
Straight From the Source: How to Fulfill E-recycling Data Requests
Whether you are resolving issues with IT assets, you are responsible for ensuring data security, IT budget management and environmental considerations.
Trade in and Trade up, Managing Product Lifecycles
Every electronic and IT product has a lifecycle. Following a product release, the item is distributed based on demand, purchased and used to maturity, which is the point at which excitement and demand starts to decline. Decline in demand compromises market share, brand equity and profitability. Manufacturers manage this stage in the product lifecycle through…
Are you prepared to handle a product recall?
The spate of major brand recalls in the last few years, for various reasons, remind us of the need to be prepared and ready to manage a product recall process well. When a product fails, either in a B2C or B2B environment, the potential for high costs and brand damage is high. Organisations need to…
Webinar: The Fundamentals of Global IT Asset Disposition (Everything to Know from A-Z)
In a global economy, enterprises depend more and more on robust IT infrastructures. As an IT manager it is your goal to efficiently and effectively procure and maintain IT assets rather than deal with the complexities of disposition at the end of their useful life. Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) is hosting a live webinar discussing…
Securing Your Chain-of-Custody During IT Asset Disposition
When managing the disposition of IT assets, items must be closely tracked to ensure the security of any data stored. Companies with various locations may find it challenging to ensure consistency of IT security at each location and generally desire working with one company to reliably manage their IT asset disposition for all sites. Tracking…
6 Reasons Why Responsible IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is Critical
As you stare at your computer screen you try to process the information. You attempt to swallow as anxiety builds and your shaky hands struggle to dial your boss’s phone number. Finding out your company is suffering of a security breach, compromising perhaps hundreds of thousands of personal records, is the last thing anyone ever…
Reuse a Top Priority for Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Disposition Services and Sims
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Disposition Services is responsible for the reutilization of property received from our United States military services. Just as Sims Recycling Solutions is committed to the reuse of materials wherever possible, the DLA is committed to the repurposing of property to save money, minimize environmental impact and increase viability for the…