AX Retail

Assortments

An assortment is a collection of products that is assigned to a retail store. An assortment can include categories of products. Therefore, all products that are assigned to a specific category are included in the assortment. An assortment can also include specific products and products variants. You can set up as many product assortments for a retail store as you need. A retail store with product assortments can be assigned to a Sana webshop.

 NOTE

Only the products from the assortments assigned to the retail store are shown in the Sana webshop.

Set up an assortment

Step 1: In Microsoft Dynamics AX click: Retail > Common > Assortments.

Step 2: On the Action Pane, click Assortment to create a new assortment.

Step 3: In the Assortments form, on the General FastTab, enter a number and name for the assortment.

Step 4: On the Retail channels FastTab, click Add line and assign the assortment to the retail store. Note, that this should be the retail store which is associated with the Sana webshop.

Step 5: On the Products FastTab you can add product categories, specific products and product variants to the product assortment.

5.1 To add an individual product category, product or product variant, click Add line, and then follow one of these steps:

• In the Category field, select a retail product category. Leave the default value in all other fields. All products that are assigned to the selected category are included in the assortment.
• In the Product field, select a product. You can filter the list of products by selecting a retail category in the Category field.
• In the Product variant field, select a variant of a product.

5.2 To add multiple products and product variants at the same time, click Add products. Then, in the Add products form, do the following:

• Select a retail category hierarchy, and filter the list of products by category.
• In the Available products grid, select the check box for each product and product variant to add. Then click Add to add selected products and product variants to the assortment.

Step 6: By default, all products that you added to the Products FastTab are included in the assortment.

To exclude a product from the assortment, on the Products FastTab, in the Line type field, select Exclude.

For example, you can add a category of products, and then exclude specific products in that category.

Step 7: On the Action Pane, click Publish to make the assortment available to the retail channels.

A user can also view all assigned assortments to a specific retail channel. In Microsoft Dynamics AX click: Retail > Common > Retail channels > Retail stores. On the Retail stores list page, select a retail store in the list. Then, on the Store tab, click View assortments.

Assign a retail store with product assortments to the Sana webshop

Step 1: In Microsoft Dynamics AX click: Webshop > Common > Webshops.

Step 2: Select a webshop and on the Retail FastTab set up retail settings for the Sana webshop.

For more information, see 'Set up Retail Parameters'.