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Last Updated: 2026-04-03
Create Distribution Scenarios and Rules

Create Distribution Scenarios and Rules

Distribution scenarios enable you to delay job distributions by hours or days. After you create a scenario, you can attach it to a distribution rule. Distribution rules indicate which vendors and vendor groups receive the job.
You can create distribution rules when you activate the job. Workday VNDLY runs the initial distribution when you first distribute the job to a vendor, and not at the time of approval or other statuses.
When you don’t select vendors for a distribution tier, VNDLY sends the job to all vendors.
When you publish jobs for initial distribution, you can choose to distribute:
  • To specific vendors or vendor groups
  • Manually or automatically
For additional distribution, you can select a scenario to apply to a distribution rule.
  1. From the header, select
    More
    Company Settings
    .
  2. From the
    Vendors
     section, Click
    Vendor Distribution & Groups
    .
  3. On the
    Scenarios
     tab, click
    Create New Scenario
    .
  4. Enter a
    Scenario Name
     and select the
    Conditions
     that you want to apply.
  5. Click
    Save
    .
  6. (Optional) On the
    Configuration
     tab, select the
    Skip Weekends
    check box.
  7. Click
    Save
    .
  8. On the
    Distribution Rules
     tab, edit an existing rule or click
    Create Rule
    .
  9. Complete the task:
    Option Description
    Published Distribution Type
    Select:
    • Contingent: Sourced
       if the vendor applies the candidates.
    • Contingent: Pre-Identified
       if you apply the candidates.
    Vendors
    Vendor Groups
    Specify the vendors and vendor groups that receive the posting.
    Add Additional Distribution
    Select a scenario, vendors, and vendor groups to distribute the job posting to.
    You can only add additional distributions for sourced published distribution types.
  10. Click
    Save
    .
You can:
  • View new scenarios in the distribution rule.
  • Edit the distribution rule to add or delete scenarios.
  • Start the job distribution.
You create a new scenario for additional distribution with these values:
Scenario Name
48 hours
When
Time Elapsed
is
48 hrs
VNDLY distributes job requirements to the second tier of vendors 48 hours after you distribute to the first tier.