{"id":353,"date":"2021-11-30T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bulbthings.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:29:32","slug":"november-2021-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulbthings.com\/blog\/november-2021-roundup","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up? November 2021 Roundup."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Small things matter<\/h2>\n<p>Most asset tracking software handle individual equipment very well but how about tracking a high volume of small items or consumables that you need for your operations, like marketing items, hand tools, machine parts, products\/supplies and more!<\/p>\n<p>Keeping track of your stock levels is important to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure you don\u2019t run out of stock of things you need for your operations or your customer service.<\/li>\n<li>Optimise your cash flow &#8211; especially helpful in these tougher times!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To help you achieve that, we\u2019ve improved our stock management feature.<\/p>\n<p>You could already see the distribution of your stock across your organisation. Now you can switch to graph view to visualise the <strong>history of stock levels<\/strong> (by item, location or person). The graphs are dynamic: clicking on an area in the graph will display the list of items and quantities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-357\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/improve-stock-1024x565.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the improved stock feature\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/improve-stock-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/improve-stock-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/improve-stock-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/improve-stock-1536x848.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/improve-stock-2048x1131.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, you can also keep track of <strong>quantities to order or recycle<\/strong> and automatically order items from your preferred suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>Very soon: you\u2019ll be able to visualise stock trends too!<\/p>\n<h2>Customise your assets further<\/h2>\n<p>You can now add more types of fields, including drop-down lists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-355\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/custom-fields-1024x566.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the improved custom field\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/custom-fields-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/custom-fields-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/custom-fields-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/custom-fields-1536x849.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/custom-fields.png 1999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Enhanced filters<\/h2>\n<p>You could already filter records based on asset categories, now you can filter on specific assets too! Suppose you\u2019re looking at a list of asset bookings, orders\/renewals, work orders, costs or other records, it may be helpful to filter on <strong>a piece of specific equipment, person or location<\/strong>. You can do that now by clicking on filters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-356\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enhanced-filters-1024x566.png\" alt=\"Screenshot showing the &quot;Person&quot; dropdown in the filter section\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enhanced-filters-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enhanced-filters-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enhanced-filters-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enhanced-filters-1536x849.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bulbthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enhanced-filters.png 1999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small things matter Most asset tracking software handle individual equipment very well but how about tracking a high volume of small items or consumables that you need for your operations, like marketing items, hand tools, machine parts, products\/supplies and more! 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