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Hello all,

I was looking for ideas for issuing Plant Supplies, like PPE.

Is issuing straight to a GL Account only the best way, or do you create an Asset, or what would you suggest?

Looking for ideas on how to best track expense for items like ear plugs, hair nets that at a site do not require a Work Order.

Thank you in advance,

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#Inventory

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Danny Richardson
Maximo Administrator Manager
Technimark LLC
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Hi Danny! I have seen assets and locations with the general ledger account number that serve as the object to assume consumption. If you have your tracking well set up (dashboards, reports), with the dispatch date, you can know in which period it was consumed. Another practice that I have seen can be a WO that receives consumption, with daughter WOs for periods (months, quarters, semesters or perhaps just one per year). The WO has the general ledger account associated with it and then, what was consumed can be easily analyzed from an WO (by sector, by period)... all the consumption assumed by a certain WO are the consumption of that sector for that period. That is redundant, but for operating sectors it is much simpler to know their consumed costs.

Regards!

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Martin Fabra
ARSAT S.A. - Actively seeking employment
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Hi Danny,

I'd issue to the labor inventory location for the labor.  This way you know whose it's issued to.  As Martin has said, it's not unusual to issue these to as GL becuase these are class as consumables i.e. personal to the user and will not be returned to the store and as such no tracking is required.  However, hang on how do I know to whom the PPE has been issued to?

Well, there is a field called Issued To on the transaction line where you can nominate to whom the PPE was issued.

It's important within an Organization to know how many of a PPE has been issued and to whom because sometimes people will book out excessive quantities or small quantities over a people to slide under the radar i.e. on-selling to someone else.

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Craig Kokay
Principal Consultant
COSOL

email: craig.kokay@cosol.global
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