Distribution Process Overview

After jobs are ordered and configured, the next step is printing and production. The following section describes how Vendors and Distribution channels collaborate to produce the ordered items.

Below is a representation of the life-cycle of orders.

The diagram above illustrates the process of:

• Vendor Selection
• Distribution Rule Selection
• Distribution Packaging
• Transmission
• Job status updates and confirmation

Vendors

Vendors are partners your organization has contracted to produce content generated in the Global Document Portal. These partners can be internal to your organization, or external 3rd parties that your company has contracted for fulfillment purposes.

You can create multiple vendors to enable your company's operations team to leverage a wide range of 3rd party tools or production facilities for the purposes of fulfilling jobs.

See the Vendors article for more information on how and why to use these.

Distribution Rules

Once an order item is assigned to a vendor, the distribution rules allow you to precisely control how these items are packaged and transmitted to a vendor.

There are any number of reasons for using different distribution rules. See the Distribution Rules article for more information on how and why to use these.