What is the best way to reclaim consumables?

[snowenthusiast]

Hi,

I am working on Asset management implementation. I know how to assign/consume consumables (using consume button) but what is the best way to reclaim that consumable if person leaves the organization (or any other applicable) use case?

Thanks in advance.

[Robert Chrystie]

Hello,

Please look for a UI Page named 'restock_a_consumable' and a UI Action named 'Restock' on the Consumables[alm_consumable] table.

Thanks,
-Robert

[Damhoej]

I have had a similar consideration, and here I will give my thoughts on my real example:

USB Harddrives. In our organization (a large public organization) we have a lot of USB Harddrives. They are default a consumable. However our IT Security department demand that we, as a minimum, note to whom we deliver a specific USB drive.

My solution is to create a model category called USB Harddrives. The model category is created as a hardware model, but is only linked to asset table

In that way I create an Asset, but not a CI. I can then create assets for individual harddrives and track the owner through "assigned to"