Distribution points
Distribution point
A distribution point is physical location where products are stored in an organization. A distribution point is also referred to as a store or a warehouse. In Planon ProCenter > Stock , a distribution point only contains stock items, with defined storage sections for specific storage types. These can be which further divided into smaller units like bins, racks, pallets and other storage units.
An organization / building can have multiple distribution points.
An organization / building can have multiple distribution points.
 | As of release L134, the options to configure distribution points have been extended, with the introduction of the supporting Distribution point management TSI. In this TSI, you can configure distribution points for stock items, but also for products that are externally managed in a different application than Planon. In addition, distribution points can also be configured for purchase items. If you choose to use this TSI to manage distribution points, you have to select a processing flow per distribution point. That method will be applied to all products that are linked to a it, after which distribution items are created to make processing possible. You can select only processing methods per distribution point, depending on the processing flow that you need: • Planon stock items (distribution points for these items can also be specified in the Stock TSI), • Planon purchase items, • External products / materials that are neither stock items nor product catalog items; they are visible in Planon, but managed in an external system. This last option is useful if your product flow is managed outside the Planon platform or if material usage is confirmed directly by users. |
Distribution points in Planon apps
Each distribution point is registered on the property where it is physically located. On this distribution point, you can register the properties to which the distribution point can deliver the stock items, by linking them.
If you use Planon apps, you will also need the Materials app module for the configuration of 'mobile stores' and 'self-managed stores'.
• A mobile store is a distribution point that is located in the vehicle of the field engineer. You can make the mobile store functionality work by entering the owner of the mobile store (who must also be registered as a PMFS PRO user) in the Mobile store owner field of a distribution point. If this condition is met, the owner can use the materials in the mobile store as regular stock items. Mobile stores can serve many properties, there is no restriction. Therefore, it is not advised to link properties to a mobile store via the action panel. By the way, every mobile store is registered on a property (by filling in the mandatory Property field), but this is purely administrative and merely means that the vehicle belongs to that building.
• A self-managed store is a distribution point that allows field engineers to add products to their jobs without relying on administration by a store manager in Planon ProCenter . Field engineers can directly issue products themselves, which will be registered on the order. To mark a store / distribution point as 'self-managed', you must set the Self-managed store? field of a distribution point to Yes.
| | For more information on configuring distribution points for Planon apps, see Configuring mobile stores and Configuring self-managed stores. |