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Managing Inventory Items

Bravura Identity manages inventory by:

  • Maintaining a list of inventory items – This list can be used for provisioning or internal purposes. It includes the identifying information, location, type, and state of each item.

    One way to create the initial inventory list, or to keep it up-to-date, is to assign inventory managers and have them do the work using the Bravura Security Fabric web interface.

  • Provisioning inventory items to users – In general, Bravura Identity facilitates the provisioning of items by allowing users to submit requests for new items, routing request to authorizers for approval (if applicable), and notifying the appropriate people when items need to be delivered, shipped, or recovered.

    The process for requesting an inventory item is similar to the process for requesting a new account. For example, to request a new wireless device, users select an inventory template named smartphone to which the individual devices are mapped.

Bravura Identity keeps track of inventory items by altering their state information (available, reserved, assigned). Inventory managers and product administrators can also manually change the state of an item. The list of possible inventory states is pre-defined in Bravura Identity . Some states must be enabled before they can be used.

The list of inventory items includes the identifying information, location, type, and state of each item.

You can load an existing inventory list into Bravura Identity , or update an existing list, using the manageinv program to import inventory in batches. See manageinv usage information for full details.

Product administrators can manually enter individual inventory items using the Inventory item menu in the Manage the system (PSA) module. Regular users assigned as inventory managers can manually enter individual inventory items using the Manage inventory menu.

The following sections show you how to manage items as an inventory manager. To learn how to:

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