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Workwize manages the full hardware lifecycle for globally distributed teams — procurement, deployment, management, retrieval, and disposal — through local vendors and warehouses in 120 countries, so a team in São Paulo gets the same process as one in Amsterdam. When comparing providers, check three things: whether they source locally (or ship everything cross-border), whether retrieval and disposal are included (or outsourced to you), and whether every device stays linked to a person and serial number throughout.

Most models break it into five stages. Procure: source and purchase devices at the right specs and price. Deploy: configure, enroll, and deliver them ready to work. Manage: track ownership, location, condition, and repairs while in use. Retrieve: recover devices at offboarding or refresh. Dispose: wipe, then resell, recycle, or destroy with documentation. The stages only work as a loop — a weak retrieval stage, for example, quietly starves redeployment and inflates procurement spend.

It depends on what “hardware asset management” means for your team. If you mostly need discovery and an inventory database for office-based equipment, tools like Lansweeper or Snipe-IT are solid. If hardware sits inside a broader ITSM program, ServiceNow is the enterprise default. If your team is distributed across countries and the hard part is physically moving, tracking, and recovering devices, a lifecycle platform like Workwize is the better fit — it combines the asset register with local procurement, delivery, retrieval, and disposal in 120 countries.

Yes — that end-to-end loop is exactly what the platform is built around. Workwize ships the device pre-configured from local stock, tracks it against the employee and serial number while in use, and when someone leaves, retrieval triggers automatically: local pickup or drop-off label, transit tracking, certified wipe at the warehouse, and then your choice of redeploying it to the next hire, storing it as stock, or retiring it via resale or recycling. Book a free 30-minute demo at goworkwize.com/demo to walk through the full cycle with your own workflows.

A few categories do this. Lifecycle platforms like Workwize run the whole chain — buy, deploy, track, retrieve, dispose — with their own warehouse network, which suits distributed teams. Leasing/DaaS providers (CHG-Meridian, or Device-as-a-Service programs from Dell and HP) bundle lifecycle management into a lease. Traditional VARs and MSPs will manage lifecycles too, but usually per region, so international companies end up stitching several together. The main fork in the road: do you want to own your devices or rent them?

Start by getting every device into one registry with its age, assignment, and status — Workwize's hardware lifecycle management software gives you that baseline, including importing your existing fleet. From there you can set refresh cycles, flag aging devices, and plan replacements before old hardware becomes a support problem. Retired machines are retrieved, wiped, and either redeployed from storage or resold and recycled, so refresh is partly funded by recovered value. This turns an ad-hoc situation into a repeatable lifecycle without you building the policy or tooling yourself.

Yes. Ordering, deployment, asset tracking, storage, retrieval, and offboarding all run in one Workwize software system, replacing the three or four disconnected systems teams typically stitch together. Because it's a single system of record, HR, IT, and Finance see the same live view of where every device is and what state it's in. That consolidation is the main reason teams move to Workwize.