Locations

The Locations table contains the different locations included in your model. A location can be a warehouse, a distribution center, a factory, a shop…

Note that you don’t need to put in the location table your supplier or customer locations.

Key Fields

Field

Type

Description

name

non-empty string

Unique name of the location.

owner

location name

Hierachical parent of the location.

Location hierarchy

Hint

Setting up a good location hierarchy is important if you are interested in the demand forecasting functionality. Otherwise, you can skip modeling a location hierarchy.

Using the owner field the locations can be organized in a hierarchical tree structure. This allows, among other, reviewing the forecast at different levels in the Forecast editor.

Here is an example to model a tree structure with warehouses in multiple countries:

Example location hierarchy

Name

Owner

All locations

Belgium

All locations

Warehouse 1

Belgium

France

All locations

Warehouse 2

France

Warehouse 3

France

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