A location is an identifiable entity in AssetWise that can be associated with an object to describe the object’s physical position. The location can be a site, area, place, or spot where the object is installed, stored, deployed, or whatever the case may be. Locations can be allocated to the following objects:

• persons
• organizations
• physical items and their serialized items
• other locations
• grouped virtual items
• documents and their document copies
• change requests
• events
• virtual item groups and virtual items
• projects
• tags

Locations can be structured in a hierarchical manner through parent-component relationships to denote, for example:

• The complete geographical breakdown of a plant
• Hardcopy storage locations for documents

You can classify locations to denote the type of location, such as document location, item installed position, and so on.