What are Distribution Location? Microsoft Dynamics LS Central/LS Retail
Distribution Locations
This blog i am writing, remembering the time when i commenced the learning of LS Central(Earlier LS Retail). First question which popped in my mind was what are distribution locations and how are the different from the Normal Navision/Business central locations?
LS Retail/LS Central has distributed architecture, it means one company who is using the LS Central/LS Retail may have more than 1 database depending on the number of stores they have. Let us take example that there is Fashion Store which sells items like Fashion accessories, Fashion clothes, Shoes etc.
Company Name:- Fashion House LLC.
Number of Fashion Stores:- 2
No of Head Office:- 1
Fashion House LLC wants to implement the LS Central as the ERP system for their company. Fashion House LLC are into retail operations. In Order to implement the LS Central they need to have in total 3 databases.
Store 1:- Store 1 DB
Store 2:- Store 2 DB
Head Office:- HO DB
Distributed Architecture looks like below
If you refer to the above figure you would understand that data needs to be transferred between different databases. In Order to know the details of the Databases, their IP address etc are defined in the distribution locations in HO database. Distribution Location holds the database name, company name, IP address and user ID, pwassword where data transfer would happen.
Refer to the below screen shot of the distribution location in the business central
Conclusion
Distribution locations is nothing but the place where we define the Company name, Database name, User ID and password to exchange data with store or Head office.
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