Your inventory goes beyond the materials you need to build beautiful manufactured homes. This isn’t your grandpa’s building business where typewriters and filing cabinets were all he would’ve needed to run a smooth operation.

It’s 2025, and you have a slew of digital tools that support your day to day. From onboarding new hires to ensuring that every device is accounted for when they leave, without the right strategies in place, this process can become a logistical nightmare.

Don’t let your IT procurement and inventory management spin out of control.

Especially when your operations span multiple locations and worksites. Instead of letting your IT hardware pile up in your office, let’s modernize the process and make your life a whole lot easier. In this blog, we’re going to dive into the ins and outs of how modernizing these processes can streamline operations.

Why IT inventory management is so important

Your IT assets are an investment, and a costly one at that. When operations are spread across multiple locations, managing your IT assets needs to go beyond just knowing what devices you have. Here are some key reasons why IT inventory management is so important.

Efficiency: When onboarding or offboarding employees, a standardized process ensures that the right devices are ready when you need them and are easily returned when they need to be.

Lower costs: Untracked IT assets can lead to unnecessary future purchases, duplicate orders, or forgotten resources. Easily see what you have so you don’t accidentally over-order.

Security: Lost devices account for a hefty percentage of all cybersecurity breaches. If sensitive company or customer data is stored on missing laptops, you could be exposing yourself to avoidable breaches.

These are just a few of the many reasons why managing your IT inventory is so important…

Standardizing IT equipment

In the digital age, maintaining consistency with your IT equipment is essential to running a smooth operation. Despite this, a lot of manufactured housing companies still struggle with standardization which can turn into unnecessary complications and wasted time. The good news is that standardizing your IT equipment doesn’t have to feel daunting. Here’s how you can start:

Define clear equipment standards: Creating clear expectations for desktop and computer configurations can save your IT team a lot of time by minimizing how long they need to spend dealing with multiple setups and troubleshooting.

Implement a clear onboarding and offboarding process: The procedures that you implement for onboarding and offboarding your employees matters more than you think. It isn’t as simple as allocating a device and expecting to get it back.

You need to create a system where you track where your devices go and have a checklist in place to update inventory records after you get your device back.

Establish a routine review: The best way to ensure that your IT equipment is always up to date is to review your IT standards and inventory regularly. Tech is constantly evolving, so updating your processes will ensure that you always have the right equipment when you need it.

These are just a few simple ways to start standardizing your IT equipment. Implementing at least one of these strategies will help reduce operational inefficiencies, lower costs, and improve security.

What about managing your IT inventory?

Manufactured housing is booming, so managing your IT inventory is probably last on your long list of things that need to be done. When your business is growing and operations span multiple worksites, keeping track of inventory can easily become overwhelming.

Without an internal IT team, the responsibility of managing devices, tracking inventory, and ensuring your devices are properly reclaimed often falls on the lap of someone juggling multiple roles. These challenges are amplified when you consider the complexity of modern IT ecosystems. This is why we recommend outsourcing your IT inventory management to a trusted team.

By partnering with experts who specialize in managing IT assets, you can lessen the load on your and your team’s shoulders while freeing up internal resources. A dedicated IT management team can give you the consistent tracking and streamlined processes you need so you always know what you have, and you can get it when you need it.

Where can you find that trusted team of experts?

IT procurement and inventory management you can trust

If your office is cluttered with stacks of boxes holding untracked IT assets– or worse, if equipment is sitting forgotten in remote offices or lost in transit– then it’s time to partner with an IT asset management team.

Network Thinking Solutions brings clarity and control to your operations. From securely storing your equipment, to implementing structured onboarding and offboarding processes, we ensure every device is accounted for.

We go further by standardizing your IT equipment, handling purchases, and creating consistency across your business. Instead of trying to manage your IT inventory yourself, modernize and scale with IT procurement and inventory management you can trust.

It’s time to get back to what matters most: scaling your manufactured housing business.

Leave the IT stuff to us.

Ready to learn more? Let’s talk.