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New service outsources asset management to company

A new offering from Follett is letting schools outsource operational activities — what it calls “routine and seasonal tasks” — in a bid to help school admins and staff save time and space.
According to the company, the customized program, called Managed Services, “provides valuable outsourced services for administrators when they’re lacking the resources — staffing, facilities or time — to efficiently and effectively run their district.”
Many of the tasks have to do with asset management, and include:

• Locating, counting, and barcoding school assets, and doing physical inventories on-site.
• Ordering and logging new assets, like textbooks, and distributing them throughout a district.
• Helping schools open, shutter, or relocate school buildings and move materials, such as library books.
• Store various assets at off-site warehouses.

Follett has already rolled out the service in a handful of pilots and is now expanding.
Material from a press release was used in this report.