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Furniture Process Overview

With the Furniture process, you can develop a furniture standards inventory or a tagged furniture inventory, and can make key furniture data viewable over the Web from both Web Central and the Smart Client. This data can include furniture standards, and furniture details, such as the division, department, and employee using the furniture, the furniture location, and the furniture status and use. See Choosing a Furniture Inventory Method.

You can also optionally choose to represent your furniture in CAD floor plan drawings. This enables you to graphically see the locations of your furniture items and enables users servicing these items to know exactly where they are located on the floor. For a discussion of when to develop an alphanumeric-only inventory and when to develop a CAD-based inventory, see Getting Started with Asset Management.

Those users with appropriate access can also edit key equipment information.

Procedure for Creating a Furniture Standards or Tagged Furniture Inventory

1. Develop basic information about the types of furniture in your facility by competing running the Define Furniture Standards task of the Background Data process.
2. Develop your tagged furniture or furniture standards inventory. There are a few methods:

• Define furniture inventories using Smart Client grid views.Grid views are an efficient way of working when bulk-editing data.
  • Define Tagged Furniture by Floor
  • Define Tagged Furniture by Department
  • Define Furniture Standards by Floor

    Note: You develop a furniture standards inventory from the Smart Client using the Define Furniture Standards by Floor task. You cannot develop a furniture standards inventory from Web Central.

• Define tagged furniture using a Web-based form. From, Web Central, you can add and edit data for your tagged furniture. See View and Edit Tagged Furniture.
• Create tagged furniture plans and furniture standard inventory plans by graphically depicting your furniture items with asset symbols in room plan drawings.
• Draw Tagged Furniture
• Draw Furniture Standards

4. Review and analyze your tagged furniture and furniture standards inventory data Furniture Standard Inventory reports and Tagged Furniture Inventory reports.
5. Once you develop a furniture inventory, you can add cost information and calculate depreciation for it using the Depreciation process. See Depreciation Process Overview.