Anything you want to do in e-manage that has to do with contacts, marketing, sales, projects, service, purchasing, etc. starts with a company location record.
A company location record is a physical address where you can bill to, ship to, install to and/or buy from.
Company location records are grouped by their Company Name, therefore, a company with many locations (branches) would all share the same company name, but have individual location names and addresses.
Most companies that have multiple locations already have location (branch) names or numbers that they use internally to separate each that you should use in e-manage. It is important that you find out these location (branch) names from your customers, as it tends to speed up the payment process when invoices are presented.
There should never be a duplicate of a company location record in e-manage including Vendors. e-manage allows you to buy from and sell to your vendors, so there is no need to have them in separate areas of e-manage.
Note: There are special rights necessary to create / edit vendor locations, so not every user will be able to enter these types of locations, even if every user can sell to them.