Assets
OperationsA register that keeps itself current.
Know what you own, who has it and when it is next due a service.
Tag, serial, warranty, condition, who holds it and where it is. Receive, assign, service and retire as guided steps, each recorded against the asset, with services raising their own task before they are due.
“I do not know what we own, who has it, or when it was last serviced, and the auditors ask every year.”
Four guided steps, not one process
Assets is unusual among the services: it is four short pipelines rather than one long one, and only the last of them needs an approval.
- Receive: what arrived, its cost and warranty, the next service computed, into store.
- Assign: to whom and where, condition set to in use, the person told.
- Service: what was done, and the next service date recomputed from it.
- Retire: why and how. An asset manager has to agree before it is marked retired.
- Service due in 30 days
- In repair
- In use
- Value on the register
Every figure opens what it counts and offers the next action. Nothing here is compiled at month end.
Set the interval. Watch the service start.
The next service is worked out from the last one, and its run starts by itself 14 days before it is due. Retiring an asset needs an asset manager who did not ask for it.
- Last serviced
- Wed 15 Apr 2026
- Service every
- 6 months
- Next service due
- Thu 15 Oct 2026
- Its run starts
- Thu 1 Oct 2026
- Next service worked outWed 15 Apr 2026 plus 6 months: Thu 15 Oct 2026.
- The run has started by itselfOn Thu 1 Oct 2026 the daily check found it due within 14 days. It starts once; the next day's check starts no second run.
- Asset managers told"Service due" for this asset, on Thu 15 Oct 2026.
- An asset manager records the serviceWhat was done, when, by whom and what it cost.
- Next due moves onRecorded on Mon 5 Oct 2026, the next service is Mon 5 Apr 2027: the date it was done plus 6 months. The asset stops matching the check.
Yours to change, and ours
Most vendors are vague about this line. Yours is everything about how your organisation works. Ours is the shape of the process itself.
Your administrators change these
- Categories, and locations that nest inside one another
- The service interval on each asset
- Who holds the asset manager role
Authored with the service
- That retiring needs an approval and the other three do not
A change here is a draft, checked and published. Work already under way stays on the version it started on.
The part most pages leave out
A service that only ever says yes is not evidence. This is the place it deliberately refuses, and the suite that proves it still does.
A service has to be started on an asset
The service pipeline opens with a rule that it was started from an asset, so starting it by hand from the service page cannot record a service against nothing.
Every claim here runs on each build
Not a policy, a suite. This one is npm run assets, and it fails the build rather than a report nobody reads.