Think ITAD is just for old, out-of-date hardware? Think again. The high-frequency trading industry it renowned for it’s cutting edge technology improvements. They helped ditch fiber and move to microwave to increase the bandwidth and reduce latency between New York and Chicago.
How can your recycling process improve the future of your infrastructure? Iteration and the ability to move quickly. When it comes to agility, we should look to the companies that need to be the most agile: startups. They learn step-by-step and have to move quickly or they will die.
ITAD is a large and complex series of processes. It’s easy to get buried if you don’t have the right skills in place to manage it well. When you dealing with processes that have multi-million dollar consequences, you need to have the right team in place to make sure that everything goes smoothly.
Your enterprise asset lifecycle management is incomplete. Right now, you have a lot of visibility. You see the assets that come in, you see the assets in your data center, and you see the assets that have left. But what happens then?
If you’re like most IT leaders, your life revolves around numbers: response SLAs, Uptime, Performance, Utilization. So when I ask you about reverse logistics, first let me give you an eye-popping number – $200,000,000,000 – Two Hundred Billion Dollars in returns annually. That’s the annual value of product returns as estimated by the Reverse Logistics Association.
How many times have you started a project only to realize that it was actually going to require far more resources and take far longer than you originally estimated?
Welcome to scope creep.
Take-back programs have always been a staple in ITAM, but they soon may become a more vital part of an industry in need of financial and environmental efficiencies.
