Asset Purchases

[PR]

I am new to EAM. So please forgive a naive question. But how does one go about Requisitioning and Purchasing an Asset. Let's say I need to buy a new $200,000 asset. This is clearly not an inventory item. So the purchasing steps are currently:
1. Create a new Requisition
2. Open the Requision
3. Add items - at this point I can only select Inventory items.
4. Save Requision
5. Get Requisition approved
6. Create Purchase order
7. Open the purchase order
8. Add items - at this point I can only select approved requisitions which can only hold inventory items.
9. Save the PO.

But how do I buy an asset? What is the process of approving an asset purchase request?[/list]

[calemadmin]

Very good question. One solution is to support non-inventory in requisition and purchase. The non-inventory item can be an asset to be purchased. When the asset is received from shipping, a new asset can then be created in asset module. Please comment if this works for you.

[PR]

Ok I think that will work. The only downside I can see is that the Requisition and the asset are not automatically linked, but that is not a big issue.
So to be very clear about it the steps will be:
1. Create a new Requisition
2. Open the Requision
3. Add items - at this point I select the special Inventory Item called "Non-Inventory"
4. Save Requision
5. Get Requisition approved
6. Create Purchase order
7. Open the purchase order
8. Add items - at this point I select the approved requisitions.
9. Save the PO.
10. When the goods arrive I confirm that the shipment contains what was ordered.
11. If everything is in order a new asset is now manually created.

[calemadmin]

A feature proposal is added as mantis 110.
http://www.calemeam.com/apps/mantis/view.php?id=110