Systems and procedures are provided for transferring a service identifier for use by an IHS (Information Handling System), where technical support is provided to the IHS based on the service identifier. During factory provisioning of the IHS, a signed inventory certificate is uploaded to the IHS that includes an inventory identifying factory installed components of the IHS. Upon deployment of the IHS, a hardware component is removed, where the service identifier of the IHS is associated to the removed component. Upon installing a replacement hardware component, a request is initiated to transfer the association of the service identifier from the removed hardware component to the replacement hardware component. In response to the request to transfer the service identifier, an updated inventory certificate is generated that associates the service identifier to the replacement hardware component, wherein the replacement inventory certificate maintains the inventory of factory installed hardware components of the IHS.