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[Alan Parsons]

This is more of an information gathering. We use Ax2012 R3 with MPOS and have a relatively high turnover of products. Sales orders are generated both ERP side and through MPOS as well as standard store transactions through MPOS.
 Because of the high turnover we are constantly needing to provide visibility as to what is a live product and what is an expired product.

We use assortments to control the product visibility at MPOS together with using the Default Order settings in Manage stock (released products) to stop new purchase orders and then as the stock sells through the sales and stock transfer flags in the same place – finally removing from the catalogs and assortments when all the stock has turned over.

The biggest challenge is visibility to the users, particularly through the ERP and Call Centre Sales Order processes of adding lines (we have used “ZZ” at the start of the search name to try and provide some level of visibility) and also to the buying office when sorting products through various views to know that a product is listed for deletion.

We currently use the Buyer Group on the product to provide visual indicators (have added to various views as necessary).

Really the question is how do other people manage this process? Is there some secret in AX we are missing

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Alan Parsons
Mole Valley Farmers
South Molton
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[Girish V. Nair]

Hi Alan,

We have come across the similar requirements for our retail customers, as the product team need to visualize the Purchase/Inventory/Sales Flagging and also to track when the product moves from Live to obsolete or expired..

 This may work for you,
As a work around we have shown the stopped status in the on hand inquiry and released products forms. Additional information like obsolete or expiration etc. was captured at product attribute level and displayed at the different forms, this helped us the product team to visualize the product status and take the necessary action to it..

This can be added in the Different forms if required say Sales order or Purchase order 🙂

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Girish V
Senior Advisory Consultant
Tectura India
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