During an inventory audit, a field technician discovers four access switches that were delivered six months ago. The equipment is still in its original shipping boxes, has no asset tags, and does not appear in the organization's CMDB. Based on procurement life cycle best practices for asset management, which specific stage was not completed?
Once hardware is received and its condition verified, the next procurement-life-cycle task is to create or update the inventory record, apply an asset tag, and enter the device in the configuration management database. Skipping the asset record and tagging stage leaves the organization without visibility into the item's location, warranty status, or ownership. Receiving/inspection was already done (the shipment arrived), deployment cannot occur until records exist, and retirement happens only at end of life.
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