Best way to represent material and equipment purchases

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What is the best (or easiest) way to represent material and equipment
purchases in project plan (MS Project 2003), particularly if I later want to
generate a summary report listing all of these?

For example, say I have task, "Test component X" that requires that I
purchase (a) digital multimeter from vendor A for $40, (b) 10 lbs of copper
wire from vendor B for $60, (c) support bracket from vendor C for $25.
Right now I just list each material item as if it were a task and enter its
cost as Fixed Cost (I added a column to the task *** for this). This
works from the standpoint of capturing the purchase and its cost, but if I
want to generate a report listing only such material and equipment purchases
I can't (or don't know how) to do that.

Is there a better way? Should I create a resource called "Equipment
Purchase" and assign that to each material and equipment "task"? What if I
have labors hours as well as equipment purchases together? Since I know
this is a common issue, I imagine there are some better ways of doing this.

Thanks for any help with this. I appreciate it.

Pat



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