Location Flexfield

Oracle Assets uses the Location flexfield to group and track your assets by physical location. Define the Location flexfield structure to fit the specific needs of your organization. You must choose:

• The number of segments

• The length of each segment

• The name

• The order of each segment

You must define a state segment and up to six other location segments.

Examples:

• You do business internationally and want to track the country an asset is in. You may also want to include segments for state, city, and site.

• You use barcodes and want to track asset locations in more detail, so you add segments for the building and room number.

The location name (all segments concatenated) appears on forms and reports, which display only a limited number of characters. You may want to abbreviate some location segment values.

Note: Plan your flexfield carefully. Once you begin entering assets using the flexfield, you cannot change it.