This article was first published by the Providence Business News on December 13, 2017 by Susan Shalhoub Anyone who has ever worked in retail remembers the drudgery of manual inventory. Or we can’t remember what holiday decorations are stored up in our own attics. But what about when it’s mission-critical for your company or organization to [...]
What do the DoD Instructions 8320.04 and the FIAR Mandate have in common? They both link to the responsibilities of accurately accounting for and reporting tangible personal property. Read on to understand the latest policy developments and how that will impact defense contractors who are required to report property. [...]
This article was written by A2B Tracking's Property Management expert, Pat Jacklets and A2B Tracking's President and CEO, Peter Collins. It was published in the June 2017 issue of the NPMA Property Professional magazine. To download the full article, click here. Government contractors within the Department of Defense (DoD) community are responsible for timely and accurate [...]
The Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) initiative will reach a major milestone on September 30, 2017. The entire Defense community needs to understand that as we begin Fiscal Year 2018 on October 1st -- the FIAR Directive dictates that all accountable assets be audit ready. The US Congress is holding the DoD accountable to [...]
Big milestones are coming up in 2017 for the FIAR (Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness) Directorate, which will affect the way defense contractors do business. It is imperative that all contractors understand and follow the new Directorate, and also understand how Auto ID technology such as barcode and RFID, lies at the core of FIAR [...]
The Item Unique Identification (IUID) policy has been in place since 2004. This Department of Defense policy allows for the unique identification of assets to streamline the process for the accountability of those assets. In order to meet your Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) compliance requirement you must be audit ready [...]
This article was written by A2B Tracking's Property Management expert, Pat Jacklets. It was published in the February 2017 issue of the NPMA Property Professional magazine. To download the full article, click here. Many organizations owe a significant amount of their revenue to the relationships they maintain with the DoD, even when only a small [...]
Some organizations, when newly awarded a government contract, will attempt to create a customized approach to tracking and managing military compliance using a spreadsheet or rudimentary software— like Microsoft Access. They typically end up meeting only a small fraction of the total military IUID and RFID compliance requirements to asset and shipment [...]
This article was originally published in the PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS The U.S. military manages 30 million critical assets every year, from tool cribs in Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard to Humvees rolling through the mountains of Afghanistan. Keeping track of this material is nothing short of a logistical nightmare. "This problem has become basically the 100-pound [...]
Most organizations, when first awarded a contract with the Department of Defense, are unprepared for the scope and depth of asset tracking and reporting that is required to be able to ship and invoice their items. This is also true for military contracts that require management of government property. Naively, these contractors [...]
