DDP - Delivery point to the dealer
What is a DDP (Dealer Delivery Point)?
A DDP (Dealer Delivery Point) represents the physical location or authorized logistics center where a dealer or the importer's network receives vehicles from the Importer.
Unlike the factory delivery point (port or importer's central yard), the DDP defines the final dealer delivery destination and includes the following key data:
- Point identifier code and description
- Address
- Postal code (essential requirement for issuing transport guides)
- Dealer(s) or brand to which it belongs or is enabled
🎯 What is it for?
The DDP acts as the link between commercial management (Ordering/Proposals) and logistical execution (SIMA / Orders and Transport Guides / Logistics operators like Rodocargo). Its main functions are:
- Order Destination Assignment: Ensures that each unit requested from the factory or assigned from stock knows its exact destination.
- Assignment and Transfer Management: Specifies the reception DDP when requesting a vehicle from the network.
- Exhibition Vehicles (Showroom): Defines the physical facility where the vehicle will be located for exhibition and facilitates its logistics if returned or transferred.
- Additionally, in some cases or markets, if configurations with SIMA are provided, it also allows for:
- Planning and Transport Guides: Provides the exact point and postal code to logistics systems and automatic interfaces (such as Rodocargo or Sales Logistics API) to generate orders and guides without errors
- Location Control in SIMA: Automatically reflects and synchronizes real-time changes in the vehicle's physical location.
DDP Types
- General / Common: Available to all brand dealerships
- Own: Exclusively associated with a specific dealership
- When we also have a special parameterization to view all delivery points, we can manage how they are displayed, showing the market DDPs ordered by priority (1st Own → 2nd General → 3rd Other dealerships), always showing the default one for the dealership first.
Conditions according to Vehicle Status
- Dealer: You can select or edit the DDP on orders in a status prior to "Arrived at Importer". Once the flow has advanced, you cannot remove it on your own.
- Importer: You can assign, modify, or unassign (clear) the DDP on your own orders or network orders up to the status "Arrived at Importer"
- In later statuses (in transit or delivered), direct editing is not allowed.
🖥 How and where is it used?
To be able to start using this functionality, we need to have the DDPs defined in the system.
- Order Card / Detail (Transport Section): Display of the assigned DDP and edit/selection button
- Order Creation Wizard: Selection of the destination DDP during the configuration flow and in the summary prior to confirmation
- Commercial Proposal Manager: Unified selector displayed when converting a proposal into an order or linking it to a vehicle
- Transfer Request (Network Orders): Modal dialog requesting the reception DDP when ordering a network vehicle
- Showroom / Exhibitions Module: Selection of the exhibition DDP (automatically cleared if the vehicle is returned to the importer)
- Order Search and CSV Export: DDP information columns included in searches and CSV downloads