r/sysadmin • u/No-Barber964 • 29d ago

Help convince CTO desktop peripheral are consumables and not assets to be tagged Question

Our company has been asset tagging everything at a desk to ensure that we can control the full lifecycle of hardware from procurement to disposal.

I’m trying to shift our process for the desk level hardware to only tag monitors as an asset and make keyboards/mouse, webcam, docking stations as consumables that we wouldn’t asset tag and only classify as consumables to track inventory levels

Our cto is consented we will loose visibility into where things are going and why we have to continually purchase more hardware when the firm isn’t growing

Any advice ?

Edit.. to add more context on the dollar amount of each model as many are saying to set a $ threshold

Monitor - $350 Headset - $250 Webcam- $160 Docking station - $100 Keyboard/mouse - $60

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u/No-Barber964 29d ago

His stance is any IT hardware at the desk should be tagged, from the $50 keyboard up to the $500 monitor

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u/ADynes Sysadmin 29d ago

That seems like a waste of everyone's time. Our company standard is a Logitech mk540 keyboard and mouse combo, the ones with the unifying receivers. I buy them 5 or 10 at a time when I get them at a good price. Like 30 dollars a set. I can't imagine asset tagging something that cheap.

We don't even tag monitors although we probably should, for us it's really just computers and printers on the user side and then pretty much everything on the infrastructure side (switches, routers, servers, firewalls, etc).

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u/No-Barber964 29d ago

Correct . But saying “it’s a waste of time” isn’t enough of an argument for him . I need more data to back up why these should be consumables

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u/insufficient_funds Windows Admin 29d ago

Here's another way to look at it - if its asset tagged, then finance/accounting should be tracking that purchased asset and depreciating it. If it's not on a depreciation schedule then it's not a tracked asset by finance, and therefore shouldn't be a tracked asset by IT.

The point of asset tracking is to be able to identify it against the asset depreciation, and be able to know when it's been retired or lost.