Imagine you have a fleet of something (cars, tablets, projectors, whatever...). Rather than associate one user to one device, which can create problems if 1) one person requests more than one resource 2) Multiple users effective block out another user because of poor selections of individual resources on the schedule.

Instead, have a pool. You have 20 cars, you set up a 20 car resource pool. Users are allowed to have one request for a given time period to the pool and the pool accepts the request as long as there is no more than 20 such requests for any given day. When the user comes to get the resource, they get assigned it through your normal fixed asset tracking system.

by: Delon W. | over a year ago | Other