Our company places some of our asset orders from an external vendor that stocks equipment for us. The problem here is that the stock assets are not defined until we request a shipment from the their stockrooms. That being the case, requesting new hardware ( the automated process that will allow you to select a stockroom and then it will indicate which stock item to issue) will not work as there is no actual stock to select from.
Does anyone else follow a similar practice? How do you manage dealing with stock in this manner? The first thing that comes to mind is that we create shell records for the amount of assets being stocked for us. Then once we get the item, we then correct the assigned asset's serial and other info to match what was issued. This seems like a bit of overhead work that can lead into incorrect/missed entries building up over time. Something we have lived with for a long time and are actively working to fix those issues.
