AIM Managerial Service Asset and Inventory Management

Asset and inventory management (AIM) involves receiving, inspecting, storing, and accounting for new product for an
upcoming customer installation: inventorying and managing customer assets stored in a warehouse as well as assets installed and in use in customer facilities; and managing the transactions of these assets.

By managing active customer inventory, through reliable consistent information, reduction of cycletimes can be realized, and customer installations may be completed on time and error free. By managing asset customer inventory, better utilization of assets may be achieved and less product will be purchased, customer standards may be identified and managed, allowing for reduction in asset levels and customer storage cost, and reduced cycle times from order to delivery can be realized.

AIM is an inventory control technology tool intended specifically for use in the furniture industry to manage customer assets. The primary intent of this tool is to inventory furniture stored in a warehouse and manage in and out transactions as they occur. AIM may also be used to inventory on-site installed furniture.

The Herman Miller AIM software inventory usage and capabilities include:

• Allows for multiple locations and multiple inventories.
• Based on a standard, which is a description of a single unique item, and asset, which represents the actual item inventoried.
• Is capable of describing furniture made by multiple manufacturers and allows for capture of information concerning specific category, condition, fabric and finish, edge and base details, colors and user defined fields.
• Allows for import of picture to standard file.
• Detailed finding capability of assets is available through field finds.
• Detailed reporting is available through a variety of summary reports of entire inventories or sub-sets of inventories.
• Designed as a single-user system with network abilities.
• Designed for ease of use in navigation and allows for users with limited computer experience.
• Allows for development of marketing standards catalog for customer usage.

Affiliated network members have the opportunity to manage customer assets, which will allow for additional opportunity in primary services,managerial services, and additional product sales.