Empire Industries Limited is a 125-year-old, Mumbai-headquartered public limited company operating across diverse manufacturing and service divisions, including glass bottle manufacturing, machine tools, industrial equipment, commercial real estate, and food distribution. As a multi-divisional conglomerate with a long-standing reputation for quality and market leadership, Empire Industries manages a wide and varied base of physical assets and inventory across its business units.
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The Challenge
Empire Industries’ IT footprint had grown organically across its divisions, with each business unit procuring and managing its own laptops, desktops, servers, network devices, and software licenses. This left the company without a single, reliable record of what IT assets existed, where they were deployed, or who was responsible for them.
Without centralized tracking, IT teams struggled to answer basic questions quickly, such as which devices were nearing end of life, which software licenses were active or expiring, and which assets were assigned to which employee or division. Manual spreadsheets and disconnected records made audits time-consuming and left room for untracked or underutilized equipment to go unnoticed.
This lack of visibility also made budgeting and planning difficult. IT leadership had limited insight into upcoming replacement cycles or license renewals, which meant procurement decisions were often reactive. As new divisions and locations came online, the absence of a scalable IT asset system made it harder to maintain consistent standards and control across the organization.
What did
Assystant do
Assystant implemented an IT Asset Management solution to give Empire Industries a centralized, organization-wide view of its hardware, software, and network assets. The system was designed to bring every division’s IT inventory into one structure while accounting for the operational differences between business units.
The implementation focused on:
- Building a centralized inventory of IT hardware, including laptops, desktops, servers, and network equipment
- Tracking software licenses and their renewal or expiry status in one place
- Recording asset ownership and assignment by employee, department, and division
- Structuring the system to scale as new devices, locations, or divisions are added
Assystant worked with Empire Industries’ IT team to catalog existing assets and standardize how new assets are recorded going forward. This gave the company a consistent process for onboarding, tracking, and retiring IT assets across every division, rather than relying on separate records maintained independently.
The Results
- Centralized visibility into IT hardware and software assets
- Standardized asset tracking across all divisions
- Reduced manual effort in IT audits
- Clearer view of license renewal and expiry dates
- Faster identification of underutilized or aging equipment
- Improved planning for IT procurement and budgeting
