Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail is one of the Microsoft Dynamics AX Industry Solutions. It can connect critical point-of-sale (POS) and headquarters processes with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financials right out of the box, making it a comprehensive solution that delivers value in every area of an organization.

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Main features of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail

Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail is a comprehensive solution with all the store components necessary to manage transactions, customer loyalty and payment processing. Features include a headquarters module to handle assortments, replenishment, pricing and promotions, as well as ERP capabilities to handle warehousing, logistics and backend processes.

From sales to supply, you can create transactions, track sales, understand consumer behavior, manage inventories, reduce shrink and improve overall operations. You can gain visibility across the entire enterprise, as well as connect with your local sites and supply chain to grow your business and set it apart from the competition.

Centralized Store Management

Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail can centrally manage stores and POS terminals from back office. Currency, account and item masters to be used in transactions, roles and permissions of store staff and hardware configurations including POS visual profiles and screen layouts can be all setup from back office. Centralized management helps ensure critical updates across the organization, including configurable, flexible inventory and financial updates, sales order payments, gift card usage, and the issuance and usage of loyalty points. In addition, journal entries with dimensions are automatically generated by daily closing and transferred to back office. Employees at back offices can view the updated sale information by store, POS terminal, sales person, item and so on.

Flexible POS

Purpose-built POS components are integrated into Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail. The POS user interface can be optimized for store roles with a graphical “drag and drop” designer for improved productivity and customer service. AX Retail POS can work offline, ensuring that your stores remain fully operational during network interruptions. All data is automatically updated when the connection is restored.

Powerful Merchandising

Dynamics AX for Retail can optimize profitability with pricing flexibility, including flexible discounts, group/item/customer discounts, mix and match, and buy-one-get-one scenarios. It supports purchasing and replenishment activities where purchase quantities are decided based on size, color, and style to suggest item distribution between stores with immediate updates to transfer journals.

Global reach and scalability

Dynamics AX for Retail helps you operate your business across geographies and locations with flexible deployment options and built-in support for 38 countries in 40 language versions. It also can adapt quickly to changing business requirements with POS add-ins and extensible headquarters software that can be tailored to meet specific retail needs.
As the all components of Dynamics AX for Retail is based on the common Microsoft technologies, you can easily customize and scale your solution as your business grows and add stores and distribution centers to help you compete—locally and internationally.

Type of computer	Supported operating systems	Minimum processor speed, RAM, and hard-disk space
Application Object Server	Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 (x86 or x64)	1.1 GHz or higher recommended 512 MB RAM or more recommended 1.5 GB available hard-disk space
AX client computer	Windows 7 (x86 or x64) Windows Vista (x86 or x64) Window XP SP2 or SP3	1.1 GHz or higher recommended 512 MB RAM or more recommended 1.5 GB available hard-disk space
Head-office database server	See Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 System Requirements.	See Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 System Requirements.
Head-office communications server (see the note following this table)	Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 (x86 or x64)	Minimum: 1.1 GHz (x86) or 1.4 GHz (x64), 1 GB RAM, 1.5 GB available hard-disk space Recommended: 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Store database computer	See Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008.	See Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008.
Store communications server	Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 (x86 or x64) Windows 7 (x86 or x64) Windows Vista (x86 or x64)	Minimum: 1.1 GHz (x86) or 1.4 GHz (x64), 1 GB RAM, 1.5 GB available hard-disk space Recommended: 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Retail POS register (with or without database)	Windows 7 (x86 or x64) Windows Vista (x86) Windows XP SP2 or SP3 (x86) POSReady 2009 (x86)	Minimum: 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 1.5 GB available hard-disk space Recommended: 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM

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