We are working on getting our stockrooms set up and I have a couple of questions. I am hoping someone can provide some guidance on set up or best practice.
1) If I set up hardware as a consumable it seems we cannot retire or dispose of these items. The item can only be tracked as "consumed", the state becomes read only and we cannot change this (Screenshot below).
Example: We are trying to determine if we want to track monitors as an asset or a consumable. Based on the number of monitors we keep in stock and out in our company, we were thinking of tracking as a consumable; however, when testing this we cannot retire or dispose of these if we need to replace the monitor? If we are wanting to track disposal, do these have to be tracked as an asset?
2) When putting items in the stockroom, the only way I can see we can track Quantity, is if we set up the hardware as a consumable. If I create an asset, the quantity defaults to 1 and I cannot change this. Example: We have several large projects that require us to buy PC's and other hardware items in bulk (50+). If I build these as a consumable to track the number of computers we have in stock (pre allocated), then we can only consume these. This creates the same issue as above, where we cannot retire or dispose of the item. Taking the time to create all of these as assets when they are received will be very time consuming. Is there a way to track these as a consumable and then change them to an asset as we get ready to deploy these? If not, how are other people managing large volumes?
