First, in the Portal's left sidebar, click on Assets to open the assets page (marked with an arrow below).
getting to the Assets page
Here is our Asset list, circled below we see two buttons.
Request Asset - Create a New Asset Request.
Add Asset - Report an unaccounted Asset to the list we own.
My Assets page
After clicking on Request Asset, we simply select a category and add a comment to the manager, we can optionally ask for a specific model and manufacturer.
Then, we'll click on 'Send'.
filling the new request form
On the Assets page, we can click on the Assets button to go between My Assets, and My Asset Requests.