To assign customers to product zones:Use product zones to restrict customer purchases to a selection of products. Customers with product zones are limited to buying only those products or only from price lines assigned to their zones. All products are available to customers for whom no product zones are assigned.
For example, if you have branches in Florida and Texas that stock the same products, you can restrict Florida customers to purchasing products only from price lines at your Florida branch. This saves money on shipping.
Before using product zones do the following:
Define product zones in the Valid Product Zones control maintenance record. Otherwise, all products are available for customer sales.
Set the Display Products Within A Customer's Product Zones control maintenance record to determine whether all products display in Sales Order Entry.
Assign the PRD.ZONE authorization key to users who need to view products outside the customer's product zone.
Assign product zones to customers.
Product zone assignments at the product level override assignments at the price line level.
To assign customers to product zones:From the Files menu, select Customer to display the Customer Maintenance screen.
In the Customer/New field, enter a customer's name to display the customer record.
Use the Add'l Info hot key, then use the Product Zones hot key to display the Product Zones screen.
Press F10 and select a product zone from the list.
When you have finished assigning product zones, press Esc to save the information and exit the screen.
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