How to Create a Consumable Asset (Desktop)

What:  A Consumable is a Tenna asset category. The Consumables functionality allows users to manage construction inventory and consumable resources, including adding new consumable assets and adjusting quantities with use.  

Who: All users can manage consumables. Users with the "Add Asset" permissions can add consumable assets to their Tenna account.

Note: There is no limitation to the types of consumable assets you can create in Tenna.  Some examples of consumable assets are road plates, filters, traffic cones, electric supplies, and sprinklers.

Step 1. Create a Major Category and any necessary subcategories for consumable assets.

Before you can create and track consumable assets, you must first ensure you have a Major Category designated for consumables. 

Note: Some accounts may have a Major Category already set up for consumables. Refer to How to Create and Edit Categories (Desktop) to learn how to navigate to your existing Categories and determine if you need to create a new Major Category for consumable assets in your account.

If you do not yet have a Major Category for consumables, or you want to add subcategories to an existing Major Category, the Categories article linked above will walk you through creating new Major Categories and Subcategories. 

Important:  When creating consumables, the "Major Category Name" can be whatever you would like it to be, but the "Category Type" must be "Consumables". 

Step 2. Create a consumable asset.

Once you have a Major Category and any related Subcategories set up for your consumable assets, you can now create a consumable asset. 

Refer to the How to Create, Edit and Delete an Asset (Desktop) article for information on creating a consumable asset. 

Note: At this time, Consumable assets can only be created on the desktop platform.  Consumable assets cannot be created from the Tenna App.

Step 3. Add or subtract quantities of your consumable assets.

Once a consumable asset is created, you can now add and subtract quantities as you use and replenish stock.  

Refer to the How to Add or Subtract Consumable Quantities (Desktop) article for more information.

Note: Consumable quantities can be modified on the desktop platform and from the mobile app.