In the effort to make the Assets accurate, it is better to have the information about when the assets were delivered.
With that additional information, the Operations team will get idea whether this is a spare (if purchased long time ago) or a new hardware (if it is recent date). In the medium to large size organization, the Engineering team / Implementation team purchases assets but since it is not online yet, the Operations team will not know. But the assets already show up in the CXC.