Because assignment happens informally and return is checked from memory. A proportion of every leaver's equipment is never recovered, and nobody can say what proportion.
A record of what company equipment each person holds, assigned on a date and returned on a date.
Assets are assigned to the personnel record with dates and condition notes. Outstanding items are derived at offboarding rather than remembered.
Somebody leaves holding a laptop and a phone. Both appear on the offboarding checklist as return items with their assignment dates.
This is assignment tracking, not IT asset management. No device management, licence tracking or automated discovery.
Offboarding reads outstanding assets. Books can hold the asset's financial life separately in the fixed asset register where it is capitalised.
Yes, at assignment and return.
They are separate: Nest records who holds it, Books records what it is worth.
Yes, from self-service.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.