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title: "Distribution planning"
slug: "bc-distribution-planning"
description: "Explore diverse distribution processes in the food industry, from truckload receiving to lot settlement, enhancing efficiency and support for businesses."
tags: ["BC", "Business Central", "Food", "Introduction"]
updated: 2026-06-25T07:53:18Z
published: 2026-06-25T09:59:17Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/bc-distribution-planning"
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# Distribution planning

Distribution processes within the Food Manufacturing & Distribution industry are varied and extensive, from the actual distribution of packaged Food Manufacturing & Distribution, to recording additional item costs at the time of receipt, from supporting truckload receiving to the Terminal Market functionality and lot settlement.

Food Manufacturing & Distribution provides two levels of support for distribution processes in Food Manufacturing & Distribution-related companies.

The first level is part of the Food Manufacturing & Distribution core and is available to all Food Manufacturing & Distribution customers. This level includes support for:

- Using extra charges for items at the time of receipt of goods, rather than at the time of posting the invoice
- Executing truckload receiving, where selected receipts are handled as one instead of order by order
- Terminal Market functionality, where fresh produce is sold from several vendors and collected on one sales invoice and paid immediately
- Using lot settlement functionality to let the sales results of a lot determine the actual purchase price

The second level is available as a separate module and supports functionality such as:

- Using Pickup Load functionality to combine delivery of goods with pickup of orders from vendors
- Using Standard Sales Orders as an extension of the standard D365 BC blanket sales order functionality
- Delivery trips that manage several deliveries at several addresses on a given day by a given truck

For more information on level 1 support, see [Food distribution](/business-central/docs/bc-food-distribution).

For more information on level 2 support, see [Additional distribution functionality](/business-central/docs/bc-additional-distribution-functionality).

## Related

- [Food distribution](/bc-food-distribution.md)
- [Additional distribution functionality](/bc-additional-distribution-functionality.md)
- [Food Manufacturing & Distribution](/bc-food-manufacturing-and-distribution.md)