Create Locations for Your Maintenance Organization

A location refers to the physical address of an organization. You must associate a location with the maintenance organization. The locations that you create exist as separate structures that you can use for reporting.

The steps to create a location for the maintenance organization are:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, select the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering.

2. Click the Setup button.

3. On the Setup: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management page, select the Enterprise Profile functional area.

4. In the Enterprise Profile region, from the Show drop-down list, select: All Tasks.

5. In the Task region, click the Manage Locations link.

6. On the Manage Locations page, in the Search Results region, click the Create icon.

7. On the Create Location page, select from or enter values for the following required fields:

   • Location Set

   • Effective Start Date

   • Name

   • Code

   • Status

   • Country

   • Address Line 1

   • City

   • State

   • ZIP Code

   • County

   Note: When you enter the ZIP code, the city, state, and county are populated automatically.

8. Click the Submit button and then in the confirmation dialog box, click the Yes button to confirm that you want to continue with the request.

9. Click the OK button.

10. On the Manage Locations page, click the Done button to return to the Setup and Maintenance work area.

Note: For each maintenance organization, you must further define it using the Plant Parameters setup task. For more details, see the Maintenance chapter of the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide.