Perhaps the best way of keeping track of all the assets you own is to keep a database which records all these assets. The database can then be filtered by asset location, or asset type, or even when the asset is due for its next operational check. However, keeping a database in an electronic form is the easy past of keeping a check on your assets; the hard part is keeping track of the assets themselves.
When people started to realise how important it was to keep a track of assets, the first types of system they used were simple numerical systems which relied on numbers being printed or etched onto the asset. Then came fixing asset tags onto each asset, followed by using printed barcode labels on each asset.
Barcode labels have made asset tagging and recording much easier than it ever was in the past. The barcodes are easy to scan and information about the asset can be updated via the barcode scanner. Barcode scanning also makes stocktaking very efficient as the stocktaker simply has to scan a barcode with the scanner and the database is updated with the new product information.