Feb 03, 2022

Your mobile solution plays a huge role in how your warehouse runs. When your workers have easier and faster access to innovative technology, it can severely boost inventory and shipping processes. It is estimated that businesses waste 2,000,000 hours on average every year on stalled operations. If your employees cannot access their devices, or if devices aren’t secured, your operations will stall and cost valuable time and money since workers must set time apart from fast-paced operations to locate, service, and at times replace missing devices. With the continuous pressures put on by the surge in e-commerce and faster shipping, warehouses simply can’t afford to lose time to downtime. Consequently, device security strategies are becoming foundational in safeguarding maximized uptime and profitability.

Luckily, there are solutions to boost device availability so your workers have faster access to their assets. Additionally, these solutions help assets last longer and stay safe when not in use. One of the solutions businesses are turning to are smart lockers that streamline outdated manual device tracking and charging in distribution centers and warehouses. Traditional device storage systems don’t always ensure devices are ready to use in the next shift, and leave technologies vulnerable to employee forgetfulness (if they forget to charge devices, the next shift will suffer the consequences), theft, and environmental impacts. On the other hand, smart lockers customized with charging cradles and security parameters can help operations…

1. Optimize assets’ lifecycles - Ensure proper asset usage with cloud-based visibility on your devices. Cloud-based visibility lets you view who checked out each device and when it’s due back. There’s less damage, loss, and hoarding, so you won’t need to replace devices, which reduces inventory needs up to 30%. By lowering your repair and replacement rates, you can allocate your funds to more important matters.
2. Discover valuable data insights - Enhance your mobile device management with valuable data that shows new metrics like utilization rates, damage, on-time device returns, employee performance, and other indicators. Real-time data access makes it possible to pinpoint issues, so managers can make smarter decisions.
3. Boost productivity by saving time - Implementing mobile asset management lockers can save each associate an average of 25 minutes each week, which means they recover 8,600 productive hours in the first year alone. When workers have faster access to what they need, downtime is reduced and workers are more productive.
4. Provide safer, contactless device checkouts - Implement secure, self-serve checkout of devices so employees don’t have to stand in line or take a device that’s handed to them. Heartland’s locker solutions take less than 10 seconds for employees to swipe their badge and take their locker, which helps reduce crowds and lines as shifts come and go.
5. Shrink repair and replacement costs - Higher mobile asset repair and replacement rates can drain your budget and require you to keep many expensive spares on hand. With smart lockers, you can relocate extra devices to other areas instead of buying new ones.

Smart lockers increase device availability with advanced features that meet your hardware needs. Contact us today to connect with locker options based on your facility’s size and hardware usage.