9 Working with locations

You can configure locations within MyID to represent the places in your organization where device stock is stored and used. For example, you may have the following locations:

• Headquarters

• Northern regional office

• Western regional office

• Central warehouse

You want to be able to track how much device stock you have available in each location. There is no benefit in knowing that you have 1000 available devices, if they are all in the headquarters, and you have 50 new employees in the Northern regional office who need devices this week. Once you have set up your locations, you can set stock limits for these locations; see section 10, Working with stock limits.

You may want to differentiate the kinds of location; for example, you may want to keep your offices separate from your warehouse. MyID allows you to create a list of these kinds of location; you can use the List Editor to edit the Kind list. See section 8.2, Editing inventory lists for details.

The MyID Operator Client allows you to work with locations in the following ways:

• You can add a new location.

  See section 9.1, Adding a location.

• You can search for a location.

  See section 9.2, Searching for a location.

• You can edit an existing location, including enabling or disabling the location.

  See section 9.3, Editing a location.

Note: You cannot delete a location once it has been added; however, you can edit its details.