The patent discloses a system and related method for taking, receiving and
reconciling physical inventory data against an asset management system
from a remote location. In the disclosed system, assets as well as their
locations are scanned using a hand held bar code scanner. Scanner
information is uploaded to a particular location on a web server. Once
transferred, the scanner files are converted to an intermediate database.
Individual records of the intermediate database are then compared against
their corresponding records, if any, in a main asset database by way of a
web user interface. Records are modified, rejected or accepted by way of
the web user interface, and then accepted records are written to the main
asset database. In this way, multiple steps of the reconciliation process
may take place at the same time, and reconciliation may be done quickly
and efficiently, even from a remote location.