Inventory management monitoring with PRTG
Optimize asset inventory management processes with comprehensive monitoring
- Manage stock levels and streamline order processes more efficiently
- Reduce long-term inventory costs and capital commitments
- Detect problems with your IT assets immediately to avoid costly downtime
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PRTG inventory management monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes IT asset management monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with inventory management processes and your entire IT infrastructure.
The benefits of inventory management monitoring with PRTG
Continuous monitoring
Paessler PRTG is the perfect tool for automatically keeping track of your inventory management system. It provides for continuous monitoring and immediately alerts you via real-time notifications to avoid customer complaints, for example, because stock levels are low.
With PRTG monitoring, you’ll optimize your inventory management, improve your processes, reduce the cost of storing goods, and increase the satisfaction of your customers.
Efficient optimization
PRTG makes your inventory management system more efficient and effective. It monitors and optimizes your asset management processes by allowing you to constantly check whether everything is working as it should:
- Is your inventory planning correct?
- Are minimum inventory levels met?
- Can customers place orders without problems?
- Do end-to-end processes work without malfunctions and interruptions?
- Are the environmental conditions (temperature, humidity) suitable in the warehouses?
Automatic asset discovery
Automate the discovery of assets and various endpoints in your warehouse and your entire IT and OT network infrastructure – as long as they’re connected to the internet.
With PRTG’s user-friendly Auto-Discovery feature, you can easily define IP ranges in your subnet to discover network devices such as servers, routers, switches, and firewalls, as well as inventory systems and OT assets, which PRTG then adds to your monitoring setup.
What inventory tracking looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues with continuous software asset and hardware asset tracking functionality. Show asset lifecycle parameters, software license expiration dates and warranty depreciation, stock levels based on serial numbers, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot inventory management tools and processes, as well as issues with your entire IT infrastructure.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
List of alarms in PRTG
Start managing your IT inventory with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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4 PRTG features that take your inventory management to the next level
All-in-one network monitoring
With PRTG, you get more than data usage monitoring, you get comprehensive monitoring of your entire network, from server rooms to hardware to applications and processes.
If you’re tired of that frustrated feeling from not having enough network visibility, PRTG is for you. Have everything you need to know about your network and devices (including data usage) at the tip of your fingers. Literally.
Customizable thresholds
Keep a constant eye on your stock by entering minimum inventory levels and defining threshold values for the inventories of specific goods.
If a threshold is exceeded, PRTG will inform you at once so you can immediately take action and (for example) order more goods.
Real-time alerts & notifications
With PRTG, you get to decide how your team is notified when problems arise. Choose from Microsoft Teams, push notifications to mobile devices, good old emails, or other means.
As an inventory manager, you’ll always be able to stay on top of issues and react quickly.
Informed data-based decisions
PRTG comes with a wealth of historical monitoring data that you can compare with live inventory data to determine ways to optimize your inventory management tasks.
For example, you can identify when inventory levels tend to get lower and adjust your forecasting and planning accordingly.
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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG inventory management solution
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PRTG makes IT asset management monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with inventory management processes and your entire IT infrastructure.
Inventory management monitoring: FAQ
What is inventory management?
Inventory management is an element of logistics. It involves managing your company’s flow of goods, and maintaining an overview of its merchandise and materials – in other words, its inventory. A critical part of the supply chain, inventory management also plays an important role in relation to customers. In particular, its goals include reducing stockpiles, optimizing services, and increasing customer satisfaction.
What does an inventory manager do?
Inventory managers are responsible for managing the inventory of a company by keeping an eye on current stock levels, when and which products need to be reordered, quantities that need to be reordered, and where products are stored.
To optimize their inventory, inventory managers are faced with three main tasks:
- Demand planning: Inventory managers predict the demand for products in order to prepare a company for orders and keep customers happy.
- Inventory planning: Inventory managers determine the optimal number of products to be ordered, as well as the best time to order them.
- Procurement planning: Here, the goal is to determine the best way to fulfill inventory, demand, and procurement requirements to meet the objectives of the company.
Why is inventory management important?
Large inventories are often associated with substantial amounts of capital. These stockpiles result in higher costs, lower liquidity, and an increased risk of theft or damage. Small inventories, on the other hand, can lead to shortages and unhappy customers. Inventory management is therefore crucial to supply chains. In particular, it helps with having maximum control of the flow of goods, reducing inventory costs, and resulting in optimal profitability thanks to accurate planning.
What are the advantages of inventory management software?
By managing your inventory with asset management software, you’ll be able to skip several time-consuming steps that are often prone to errors, for example the manual completion of Excel spreadsheets, or manually counting stock and placing orders.
When combined with a monitoring tool like Paessler PRTG, inventory management software helps to optimize your inventory management. It replaces error-prone methods such as one-step calculations and rules of thumb. This in turn reduces costs and increases customer satisfaction. Inventory management software performs calculations and automatically keeps track of all the important workflows involved in inventory management, for example tracking purchase orders, end-to-end processes, inventory tracking, storage, demand planning and analysis, reporting, and much more.
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
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The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
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