A physical place at which activities of interest to the enterprise may be performed or hardware may be installed.
A location is a physical place at which activities of interest to the enterprise may be performed by the enterprise itself or by external organizational units. For example, a warehouse would be of interest, either if owned by the enterprise or if used by the enterprise but managed by a specialist supplier.
A location is not always equivalent to a physical address (e.g., headquarters and a regional sales office may share a postal address).
A location need not even be fixed geographically (e.g., a ship or a salesperson's car, especially given adequate radio links, may be an acceptable location).
A location is not an organizational unit, although it may sometimes share a name with a unit.
Location Type
A classification of locations based on the similarity of their role or purpose and of their level of activity.
There may be many locations that perform the same role (e.g., sales offices, factories or warehouses). Location type groups the locations that perform similar roles and that share broadly similar frequencies of activities and volumes of data.
Location number is the number of locations of each type in which activities of the enterprise are performed. It, together with any anticipated growth factor, is documented as a property of the location type.
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