Bills of Distribution

A bill of distribution is a hierarchy that you specify when you have more than one organization that can source your item.

If you need three or more local sourcing rules to model a supply chain when your item flows through three or more organizations, then you can create one bill of distribution instead of creating a whole bunch of local sourcing rules.

For example, you could use one bill of distribution or three local sourcing rules to implement this flow:

• Organization M1 purchases the item from Superfly Supply.
• Organization M2 transfers the item from M1.
• Organization M3 transfers the item from M2.

Using one bill of distribution instead of several sourcing rules is up to you. It depends on your personal preference whether you prefer to manage one bill of distribution or more than one sourcing rule.

Try it.

1. Go to the Order Promising work area, click Tasks > Manage Bills of Distribution.
2. On the Manage Bills of Distribution page, click Actions > Create.
3. Set the attributes in the same way that you would set them for a sourcing rule. For details, Sourcing Rule.