Not a huge issue, more of a convenience thing. I stockpile a humongous amount of junk at my main base in sanctuary. From there, I pick up junk and bring it to other settlements in need based on what has to be built. I think it would make this easier if I could automatically turn everything in the workshop into its junk components. If I need 200 steel, 30 circuitry, 25 oil... etc then having everything rendered down into these base components would take away a serious headache.

Again, not a failing of any kind by the design team, just something to make life easier for us obsessive settlement builders.

Until you autoscrap some odd quest item... I dont even know why they list the scrap components

You can, sort of - throw it on the ground and scrap it manually.

Turns everything into easily-transportable base mats. Currently has the added advantage of freeing up build limits.

Or just assign a Provisioner to the base you want to build at, then transfer them when you're done (assuming you don't want Settlers there).

This should be available quite soon either as DLC or a mod. Would like to see a scrap option from the workbench as well as a "scrap all junk" option. Perhaps add this function to the scrapping workstation? It would save us a lot of time.

That's what I was thinking, make it a button at the workstation, nice and simple.

Simple way is you should be able to assign a settler in your establishment to do the job and he would scrap 1 every 5 mins.

A portable scrapper for use outside settlements...