Microsoft Dynamics Retail Conference 2014Feb 6-7, 2104Hyatt Residency Bellevue

Hands-On Lab

Catalog & KitsPrabhu Padhi

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HOL - Catalog

Catalog enhancements

• Product availability vs. enrichment• Assortment publish products to channels for a specific period of

time• Catalog publish enrichment of products to channels for a specific

period of time• Channel product attribute enrichment:

• Ability to enrich product attributes without overhead of catalog• Enrichment once for an intermediate node in the channel

hierarchy and inherited by the child nodes• Bulk edit in Excel enhancements

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Catalog enhancements

• Virtual catalog:• Ability to sell/return products that are not assorted to store• Scenarios:

• Products not carried by current store, but are available as released product in the AX company or legal entity

• Products not carried by current store, but are available in another store

• An order can contain products from:• Current store• Other store• Released product

• Order will be created as a customer order

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HOL – Known issues

• In Exercise-1, if you encounter the error “Bulk data load failed. An error occurred while unpacking data.”, then perform the following to address it:• In Windows explorer: Go to C:\Users\administrator\AppData\Local

or C:\Users\EmmaH\AppData\Local• Delete all the ax_*.auc files• Close and re-launch AX client

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HOL - Kits

Kits

• Kit is being defined as a product in AX• Manage Kit configuration: Components, Substitutions, Kit price, and

Substitution price• Manage Kit orders: Assembly order, Disassembly order• Assemble/Disassemble kit configurations• Disassemble kit (on-the-fly breakout): Add individual components to

sale or send them back to inventory.• Ring-up kit

• View components and substitutions• Select component variants (e.g., color, size, style)• Select component substitutions

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HOL – Known issues

• In Exercise-2, if you encounter the error “Application error” for task #3 (Disassemble a kit in the store), then close and re-launch the Modern POS application, and move on to the next exercise.

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