About procurement
Asset Management Suite helps you manage your procurement process. You create
configuration items for procurement-related documents, such as purchase request,
purchase order, and invoice. You associate these items with other items and track
them through your system. For example, a purchase request can be used to
generate a purchase order. When the purchase order is filled, the received items
can be associated with the purchase order item.
Templates are provided to help you create and manage procurement-related item
types, such as stockroom, catalog, purchase request, purchase order, and invoice.
Creating and using these item types lets you track assets and resources from the
initial procurement process to the eventual disposal. You can run reports and use
filters to determine the status of items in your procurement process.
The home page for managing the procurement process can be accessed in the
Symantec Management Console. Click Home > Service and Asset Management
> Procurement.
Terminology for Asset Management Suite
To better understand Asset Management Suite, you should understand the
following terminology.
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Base configuration item type: The configuration item type on which other
configuration item types are based. For example, you might use the Computer
base configuration item type to create a configuration item type named PC
and a configuration item type named Mac. When a configuration item type is
created, it inherits all of the data classes of its base configuration item type.
If data classes are added to the base configuration item type, the same data
classes are added to all configuration item types that are based on it.
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Configuration item: The individual entries that represent specific items,
resources, and other details that exist in your asset management environment.
For example, a user named Jon, a location named California, a computer asset
named GX620, and a depreciation schedule named Straight Line are all
configuration items.
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Configuration item type: A type of configuration item. For example, Location
is a configuration item type that can be comprised of configuration items, such
as New York, California, and Utah. When you create a configuration item, you
select the configuration item type you want to use as a template.
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Data class: Data classes represent the categories of data that you want to record
about a configuration item. For example, the Computer configuration item
Introducing Asset Management Suite
About procurement
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Summary of Contents for ALTIRIS ASSET MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 - V1.0
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Page 14: ...Introducing Asset Management Suite Terminology for Asset Management Suite 14...
Page 16: ...Installing Asset Management Suite Licensing Asset Management Suite 16...
Page 32: ...Using financial configuration items Using depreciation schedules 32...
Page 34: ...Using the currency convertor Using the currency convertor 34...
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