Location examples

Usually, a location matches the area of your organization where the person works. So, for example, if a user account is assigned "Brighton" as location, that person would see only data also assigned a location of "Brighton".

However, you can define location in a way that makes sense for your organization.

Location by city or region

For example, if your organization had operations in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta, you could ensure someone from Seattle saw only Seattle data. This is particularly helpful if other data from the other cities is simply irrelevant to the Seattle user's job.

In this example, a user in Seattle -- like the data for that location -- can be assigned this location:

SnacksBox/West Region/Seattle

A supervisor responsible for the whole West region can be assigned this location to see data for both Seattle and Los Angeles:

SnacksBox/West Region

And someone overseeing both regions would be assigned:

SnacksBox

Location by zone in your plant

You could define locations for your organization to correspond to areas within the same plant.

Someone working in Zone 1 can be assigned to see data for just that area of operation.

Location by corporate building

Another option is to define locations that correspond to the buildings within your campus.

Location by functional area

Locations tend to be geographic, but could also be functional.

In this case, some functional areas are split between geographic areas. You can decide whether it makes the best business sense for your organization to group data received from the manufacturing centers in Miami and Los Angeles, or to keep them separate.

Here are two possibilities:

SnacksBox

/Manufacturing

/Shipping

/CustomerSvc

SnacksBox

/Miami

/Manufacturing

/Shipping

/CustomerSvc

/Los Angeles

/Manufacturing

/Shipping