Waris Khan

Supplementary sales items in AX 2012 R3 In a sales workshop the other day the Subject matter expert said “Buy 25 and get a free beanie”. (For those of you not familiar with New Zealand, a beanie is a knitted cap that’ll keep your head toastie-warm). The obvious solution to this “Buy one get one free” scenario is Supplementary sales items. Let’s not linger too long on the acronym BOGOF, and set some up. Probably easiest to start from the item master ( Released products)  form. You setup Supplementary sales items per item or group of items, so let’s start by assigning an item to our ‘Supplementary item group’: Then click on the ‘Supplementary sales items’ button on the Sell action tab. The system opens the Supplementary items form: I’ll choose the Item code ‘Group’ and click New, and then select whether this supplementary item applies to a specific customer ( Table ), or a group of customers, or all customers: The fields on this form are pretty self-explanatory. You’re

3 Ways to Manage Retail Replenishment in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Retailers often struggle with the complexities of automating the fulfillment of the future need of customers. In this article, we will focus on how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 helps retailers to adopt different replenishment techniques to acquire products and support anticipated need. (Please note, we will not be talking about how to get to that future need because this is where Demand Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 comes into play.) In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, inventory for a store can be replenished via cross docking, buyer's push or normal purchase order processing. Cross docking is a warehouse management process where shipments arrive at the inbound dock, get unloaded, and then get taken to the outbound dock to deliver out. This avoids storage and the associated cost. Buyer's push is used where a centralized purchasing department gets the shipments and then the inventory is dist