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.
Managing a supplier’s locations
Open a supplier and switch to the Locations tab.1
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.
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.
Related topics
- Modeling transportation — using a supplier location as the origin of a lane
- Adding inputs to your model — where transport fits in a product
- Location API — manage locations through the public API and MCP