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A supplier can own one or more named locations — a factory, a warehouse, a port — each with its own address. Once a supplier has locations, they show up anywhere you pick a place (for example, the origin of a transport leg), so you can choose “Acme — Rotterdam warehouse” directly instead of re-typing the address.
A location belongs to one supplier. If two suppliers operate out of the same physical address, each gets its own location — they’re separate entries that happen to share a map point, not a shared one. This keeps each supplier’s data independent.

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Managing a supplier’s locations

Open a supplier and switch to the Locations tab.
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Add a location

Click Add location and fill in the name and address — name it for the place, e.g. Rotterdam warehouse or Factory A, not for a one-off shipment. The first location you add to a supplier is automatically marked as the default.
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Mark the default

A supplier’s default location is the one Variable uses when it needs a single address for that supplier and you haven’t picked one explicitly. To change it, open the row’s menu and choose Set as default — the previous default is demoted automatically, so there’s always exactly one.
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Remove a location

Open the row’s menu and delete it. A location that’s still used somewhere — for example, as the origin of a transport lane — can’t be deleted; remove it from those places first, then delete it.

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The locations list

Locations in the left nav lists every location your company owns alongside the geographic points your models refer to. It opens on three columns — the location with its address, how many things link to it, and its type.
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Find a location

Type in the filter bar above the table to narrow the rows as you type, or press Enter to keep the text as a filter. The funnel builds a condition on a single field, and the footer counts how many rows match.
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Show more about each location

Display offers three further columns — owner, full address and country — and lets you reorder them. Which columns show and the order they are in can be saved onto a view; the row height and pinning in the same menu stay with your browser instead, as do the widths you drag on a column’s edge.
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Save the layout as a view

Change a filter, a sort or the columns and Save as new view appears beside the tabs. Name it, and turn on sharing if your colleagues should see it too. See saved views.
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Delete several at once

Tick the rows you want and a bar floats in at the top of the page carrying Delete, what you have selected, and Clear selection; drag it by its handle if it covers something you need. A location something already uses cannot be ticked — hover its checkbox to see what refers to it.

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Picking a supplier location

Anywhere you choose a location or geographic point — most commonly the origin or destination of a transport leg — supplier-owned locations appear in the same picker as Variable’s global geographic locations. Each supplier location shows the owning supplier’s name beneath it, and you can search by that supplier name to find it. Pick one and Variable fills in the address for you.
Modeling a supplier’s locations once pays off across every product. A transport lane that starts at “Acme — Rotterdam warehouse” picks up the right address automatically, and updating the location updates every lane that references it.