Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 - New Store Creation and Async Client Configuration

1. Create a Warehouse for the new Store
 Go to Inventory Management > Setup > Inventory Breakdown > Warehouses.

 Click on New and create a new warehouse named GURGAON in the WEST site. Assign a Quarantine warehouse and Transit warehouse.

 Select "Refilling" Check box and select "Main Warehouse"

Add an address to the warehouse

Mark "Store" Check box under retail field group

Create new "Location" for warehouse using Location Wizard and select in "Default Location"


Create New Store
Go to Retail > Common > Retail stores and click on Retail store New.

Enter Gurgaon for the store name and Gurgaon as the store number. Select the warehouse that you created earlier as the Warehouse and Shipping warehouse. Fill in Store time zone, Language, Sales tax group, Default customer (10001), and Real-time Service profile (JBB), On Setup tab attach worker, Copy Payment Method, Cash Declaration, Income/Expense account, Sections

Define Price Group
Add newly created store to "Organization Hierarchy" at path: Organization administration/Common/Organizations/Organization hierarchies


Define Assortment to Store at Path: Retail/Common/Retail channels/Retail stores




3. Create new Register for Store
Create new register for store at path:


Retail/Setup/POS/POS registers

4. Create New Retail Database for Store
Create New Retail Database using Retail Database Utility which is available at path:


C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Retail Database Utility

5. Define New Channel Database
Define new channel Database for newly created store at path:
RetailSetupRetail SchedulerChannel IntegrationChannel Database


Select Server name and Database name on Channel Database form


6. Create New Async Client
Create New Async Client for newly created store using PowerShell script:


 Goto C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\CDX\Async Client\Tools


 Copy and rename SC-Setting XLM file to your store Name

Now open SC-Setting file and find and replace from previous store to new store Name

Now goto to file from the same path and Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator

In PowerShell run below scripts one by one
$Cred = @((New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('contoso\administrator',(ConvertTo-SecureString 'pass@word1' -AsPlainText -Force))))


$Cred = @((New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('contoso\svcsynch',(ConvertTo-SecureString 'pass@word1' -AsPlainText -Force))))


$Cred += @((New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('SynchClientGurgaon',(ConvertTo-SecureString 'pass@word1' -AsPlainText -Force))))


.\DeployAsyncClient.ps1 -SettingsXmlFilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\CDX\Async Client\Tools\sc-settings-File.xml" -TopologyXmlFilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\CDX\Async Client\Tools\sc-topology.xml" -Credentials $Cred –Verbose $true

Open the Services.msc and check the Async service for new store should be successfully created

7. Process the Assortment
Run "Process Assortments" for sending the products to store from path:

RetailPeriodicProcess Assortments




8. Run Full Sync to send all the configuration data to store
Run full Sync from the Channel Database from the path:
RetailSetupRetail SchedulerChannel IntegrationChannel Database

9. Check connection for Async Client is Successful
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\CDX\Async Client\Package-Gurgaon and open AsyncClientConfigurationUtility to check the connection is successful


10. Create a new POS Configuration
Run the database utility from the below path to create the POS Configuration
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Retail Database Utility
 Run RetailDatabaseUtility

 Create a new POS configuration for new store and register

Go to path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Retail POS

 Copy Pos.exe and create new config file "Pos.exe.config"

Copy the shortcut on desktop for POS.
Right click and in target mention the batch file name which is newly created 


11. Login to POS