Principe:

1st When you create the location, you need to balance between 2 opposites objectives:

    • Enough precise for understand where the equipment is 
    • Enough generic for not need to update every day the location of the equipment

2nd You need to have less as possible one location with too much EQ inside (more than 30): difficult during the inventory. In a same location with different sectors (stock, active, stock for disposal..) create sub location

3th Don’t create virtual location (Under Project A: “EQ share with the project B”…) 


Specify according to the type of building:


Office : 

    • it’s interesting to have the level of each office: Med office, Log Office, … easy to control what should be in stock, active… 
    • For the stock of IT in a cupboard: it can be a sub location under log-office
    • A location “Stock for disposal” can be created if you have many pieces of equipment waiting to find a chain of destruction/treatment.


Hospital :

    • It’s important to have by service: intensive care, emergency, paediatric, … it’s very helpful to define the needed by service with the medical team.
    • But if you have 2 tents for the same service (or 2 rooms if it’s a building) there is a lot of movement of EQ, it recommended to don’t create 2 sub location
    • If you are in a building, and your rooftop is flat: you can create a location “rooftop”.


Health Center :

    • Create 1 location “Health Center” and sub location by name of village 


Mobile clinic :

    • If you have a specific equipment for the mobile clinic who never go to the same place, you can create a sub location under the office “Mobile Clinic”


Warehouse / Pharmacy :

    • Create location according to the room
    • In the coordination, it’s possible to create sub-location by project if the stock for each are separated : but need to follow more closely


Guest house : 

    • Most of time, it doesn’t need a sub location. There is a very limited EQ (generator), or additional EQ. And we can guess easily that the fridge is in the kitchen, the wifi access point in the corridor, and generator outside. 
    • If you don’t have any EQ in the guest house, you don’t need to create the location. Be careful: for the additional EQ it’s the same tree view. This means you need to create them if you want to put additional equipment inside.


Ambulance :

    • Usually, we put vehicles under the office code. If you put biomed/radiocom EQ as child of the vehicle, this equipment will be in the same location as the vehicle. It can be interesting to create a sub-location Ambulance under the hospital or clinic.