Board Converting News, June 20, 2022

BoardConverting Serving the North American Corrugated and Folding Carton Industries for 38 years June 20, 2022 VOL. 38, NO. 25

Understanding The IT Asset Management Lifecycle BY JEREMY BOERGER As anyone who’s ever managed, purchased for, or even just called the IT department knows, they, as an industry, do a pretty poor job of defin- ing precisely what the IT asset management (ITAM) lifecycle looks like. Therefore, it’s incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to automate both the reporting and the processing of the asset lifecycle. Organizations

Smurfit Kappa Invests $23M On Upgrades To MX Plant UK based Smurfit Kappa reported that it has invested $23.5 million to upgrade its Nuevo Laredo sheet plant in Mexico to become a fully integrated corrugated plant. The invest- ment includes an extension of the building and a new corrugator from BHS Corrugated. The new machine, which recently began op- erating, will have the two-pronged benefits of reducing CO2 emissions by up to 40 percent and doubling production capacity. The Nuevo Laredo plant is located in the Tamaulipas region in Northeastern Mexico, where Smurfit Kappa has strong partnerships in the industrial, electrical appliances and electronics sectors. The region represents 3.3 percent of the country’s GDP and is home to over 200 companies that manufacture prod- ucts for the United States. The increased capacity will streamline Smurfit Kappa’s operations in San Antonio, Texas, where a fast-growing appetite for sus- tainable packaging is demanding larger pro- duction volumes. The investment will also make significant inroads in the plant’s ambi- tious sustainability targets. Its CO2 emissions will be reduced by up to 40 percent due to

have to rely on manual feedback from work orders and visual invento- ries to know what kind of hardware and software is actually being used. Worse, the ITAM team then gets a reputation of being untrustworthy, because they can never seem to answer the questions from business leaders accurately or timely. It’s a big problem. Instead, the ITAM team should be defining IT asset management lifecycle stages in such a way that it’s clear where an asset sits on the lifecycle, and so that the asset can “self-report” and tell us where it is in the lifecycle. Here is your basic IT Asset Management Lifecycle in 5 easy steps:

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