Microsoft Confidential Enable superior functionalities and experiences in the areas of catalogs, assortments, and kits to enable retailers to sell to consumers across channel boundaries.
Benefits Cheaper order fulfillment Cheaper shipping Fewer mistakes Microsoft Confidential
Kit is being defined as a product in AX Manage Kit configuration: Components Substitutions Kit price 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. Feature Highlights Microsoft Confidential
Product kit details view (channel): View components and substitutions Select component variants (e.g., color, size, style) Select component substitutions Simple sale: Ring-up kit View kit and its components in cart View kit and its components in receipt Feature Highlights Microsoft Confidential
Feature support matrix Microsoft Confidential
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 Catalog management Ability to manage mail-order catalogs (for call center) Ability to target to a collection of channels by associating their parent node in the channel hierarchy Capture snapshot of catalog Microsoft Confidential
Manage discounts for catalogs and catalog products Bulk edit in Excel enhancements Highlight required attributes For attributes with enum values, select values from a drop down Standard product properties will not be exported to excel Enforce maximum and minimum range for attribute value Attributes without range will take system max and min values based on attribute data type (e.g., integer, decimal) Ability to capture multiple URLs for attribute of type Video or Image Feature Highlights Microsoft Confidential
Channel product attribute enrichment: Ability to enrich product attributes without overhead of catalog Examples: A soft drinks company managing enrichment of their key drinks bottle in various countries for the upcoming Olympics. A fashion apparel company would need to change enrichment of one of their perfumes for branding reasons in North America. Enrichment once for an intermediate node in the channel hierarchy and inherited by the child nodes Bulk edit in Excel Feature Highlights Microsoft Confidential
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 Feature Highlights Microsoft Confidential
Virtual catalog - Support matrix Microsoft Confidential
Create quotations Create customer orders Order or line level delivery methods Accept deposits Recall orders for modification or pickup Partial pickup Return orders Partial returns Cancel orders