Edit Location

Purpose: Use the Edit Location screen to work with a location, including the address, telephone numbers, and other related information such as the store rank and hours.

Location relationships: See Data Hierarchy for an overview of the Order Broker organization, system, and location hierarchy. Also, see the Locations screen for more information on how locations are created in Order Broker.

Updated how? The location information displayed at this screen can be updated by:

         a periodic refresh from an external system (such as product import processing from Order Management System); see Importing Locations

         entry at this screen

How to display this screen: Click the edit icon (edit_icon.png) for a location at the Locations screen.

Note:             

         Only users with Locations authority can display this screen. See the Role Wizard for more information.

         If the Edit Location screen was already open in another tab when you clicked the edit icon, you advance to this screen with the previously-selected location displayed.

In this topic:

         Updating a location

         Fields at this screen

Updating a location

Update any of the fields described below and click Save, or click Cancel to return to the Locations screen without making any changes.

Note:             

         Any changes you make at this screen can be overwritten the next time you import location information, as described in Importing Locations.

         If you use proximity locator, when you change the address for a location, Order Broker determines its new latitude and longitude using either the Oracle Maps Cloud Service or the proximity location table, depending on your configuration, and updates this information for the location record.

Required, optional fields: The Name is always required. All of the remaining information on this screen is optional, although the screen displays a warning message before you can create a location without a State/Province, Country, and Postal Code, because these fields are required to use the proximity locator. The remaining fields are optional, however:

         If you use the proximity locator in your organization, you should always enter a valid address, regardless of whether the location is subject to proximity locator searching (for example, a warehouse).

         Canadian postal codes should be entered with a space: for example, L5R 4H1 rather than L5R4H1.

         locateitems response: the name and address information for the location that is displayed in the locate items response is derived from your entries at this screen.

         ADSI integration in Store Connect: The name and address may also be submitted to ADSI when the store associate ships an item, based on the setting of the Shipping Label Return Address specified at the Store Connect Preferences screen. The return address location The return address location must include:

         contact name and company name

         street address line 1

         U.S. city, state/province, and postal code

         phone number of 10 positions, plus any formatting (for example, (508) 555-1111). The store location phone number is used if there is not a day or evening phone number for the order shipping address

         submit order request for a pickup order: If a submit order request for a pickup order originates from a location without an address that includes a valid postal code, Order Broker returns an error indicating that the location does not have sufficient inventory of the requested item.

Fields at this screen

Field

Description

Informational fields:

Organization

See organization. The organization code and name are displayed, separated by a hyphen (-).

Type

See location type. The location type code and name are displayed, separated by a hyphen (-).

Location

See location. The location code only is displayed.

System

See system. The system code and name are displayed, separated by a hyphen (-).

Location detail fields:

Note:             Most of the fields on this screen are optional and informational only. The exceptions are the Name field, which is always required, and the Country and Postal code, which are required if Use Proximity Locator is selected for the organization at the Preferences screen. The name and address information for the location that is included in the locate items response is derived from your entries at this screen.

Name

Location names can be 1 to 40 positions in length, and do not need to be the same as the name or description of the location in the integrated system, such as Order Management System or Xstore. Required.

Rank

Your entry can be up to 10 positions. Informational.

Region

Your entry can be up to 20 positions. Informational.

Contact Name

Your entry can be up to 40 positions. Informational.

Store Hours

Your entry can be up to 60 positions. Informational.

Emails

 

The email address must be formatted as user@host.com (or other valid suffix such as .org). Order Broker does not validate that your entry represents an existing email address. Separate multiple email addresses with a semicolon (;). Your entry can be up to 245 positions total.

New Store Connect order? Used for the new order notification email if this is a Store Connect location. See:

         contents: New Order Notification to Store Connect Location (Delivery or Pickup Orders)

         email setup information: Store Connect Email Notifications Summary

         scheduling polling for Store Connect orders: the New Order Polling Schedule tab (Schedule)

Turn off email notifications? To turn off email notifications to a store location, delete the email address(es) specified here.

Telephones

Telephone

Your entry can be up to 20 positions.

Extension

Your entry can be up to 10 positions.

Fax

Your entry can be up to 20 positions.

Address

Address

Your entry in each of the four fields can be up to 50 positions.

City

Your entry can be up to 35 positions.

State/Province

Your entry can be up to 3 positions. Required to use the proximity locator, although you can create a location without completing this field.

Postal Code

The ZIP or postal code for the location. Your entry can be up to 10 positions. Required to use the proximity locator, although you can create a location without completing this field.

Note:  

         Canadian postal codes should be entered with a space: for example, L5R 4H1 rather than L5R4H1.

         If a submit order request for a pickup order originates from a location without an address that includes a valid postal code, Order Broker returns an error indicating that the location does not have sufficient inventory of the requested item.

Country

Your entry can be up to 3 positions. Required to use the proximity locator, although you can create a location without completing this field.

Attributes

Labor Cost

Used to shop an order for fulfillment or sourcing as part of the LocateItems Sequence and Splitting Examples (Standard Brokering) method when determining the cost to pick, pack, and ship an order. Your entry can be up to 19 positions with a 4-position decimal. It can also be 0, but cannot be a negative number, and should not include a currency symbol. Optional.

You can also update the labor cost through the Location Bulk Updates wizard.

Geocode

If you use proximity locator and the location has a postal code, Order Broker determines a location’s latitude and longitude using either the Oracle Maps Cloud Service or the proximity location table, depending on your configuration, and saves this information as part of the location record.

Latitude

The location’s latitude. Set automatically when you create or update a location if you use proximity locator. See Proximity Locator Searching for an overview. Display-only.

Longitude

The location’s latitude. Set automatically when you create or update a location if you use proximity locator. See Proximity Locator Searching for an overview. Display-only.

 

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