University media stores often have a set time for assessing future equipment stock needs, usually only once before the academic year-end. A big reason for this is that, without analytical support, it takes a lot of time to figure out. However, with equipment scheduling software, this analysis can be carried out ad hoc whenever the need arises. Key stock taking and usage stats needed for business cases, funding applications and management meetings are a keystroke away. In this post, we look at why easy access to this data is so important and how media stores make use of it...