Maintaining retail prices in a multi company and franchise scenario can be a challenge in Dynamics AX 2012 R3. Let say we have a retailer with stores in many countries. We often also see owner structures that makes us model the retail chain with many companies.

I’m currently in an implementation to an international retailer present in 22 countries, and it keeps growing every day. To model this we need to create one Dynamics AX company per country and per partner.

The ability to maintain and control prices in such a scenario is a challenge, because prices is a property of a released item. (PriceDiscTable)

So we decided to create very small customization so that we could keep track of prices and item barcodes on the product instead of the released product level.

By doing this, the product managers have one screen where they can create and maintain product prices. The prices can be specified per currency, country and company/partner. But this is not just a simple table, but a two-way frontend for populating the standard AX price tables.

We therefore have a shared table:

The code for publishing prices into standard AX, using the price journal posting looks like this:

void publishProductRetailPrices()
{
    #Admin
    #Zebra
    DataArea                            dataArea;
    PriceDiscTable                      priceDiscTable;
    PriceDiscAdmTable                   priceDiscAdmTable;
    PriceDiscAdmTrans                   priceDiscAdmTrans;
    PriceDiscAdmCheckPost               priceDiscAdmCheckPost;
    InventDimId                         inventDimId;
    Ledger                              ledger;
    CompanyInfo                         legalEntity;
    LogisticsAddressCountryRegionId     countryRegionId;
    #define.ImportPriceDiscJournalName("Prices")
    PriceDiscAdmName                    priceDiscAdmName;

    ttsbegin;
    while select Id from  dataArea where dataArea.Id != #DATCompany
    {
        changecompany(dataArea.Id)
        {
            legalEntity             = CompanyInfo::find();
            ledger                  = Ledger::findByLegalEntity(legalEntity.RecId);
            countryRegionId         = CompanyInfo::find().postalAddress().CountryRegionId;
            this.createOrUpdatePriceGroup();

            if (this.RefCompanyId       == dataArea.Id ||
                this.CountryRegionId    == countryRegionId ||
               (this.RefCompanyId == "" && this.CountryRegionId == "" && this.CurrencyCode == ledger.AccountingCurrency))
           {
                if (InventTable::exist(this.ProductNumber))
                {
                    priceDiscAdmName = this.findOrCreatePriceDiscAdmName(#ImportPriceDiscJournalName,"@SYS342509");

                    priceDiscAdmTable.clear();
                    priceDiscAdmTable.JournalName       = priceDiscAdmName.JournalName;
                    priceDiscAdmTable.Name              = priceDiscAdmName.Name;
                    priceDiscAdmTable.insert();

                    priceDiscAdmTrans.clear();
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.initValue();
                    inventDimId = InventDim::findOrCreateBlank().InventDimId;

                    while select firstonly priceDiscTable
                        where   priceDiscTable.Relation         == PriceType::PriceSales
                            &&  priceDiscTable.ItemCode         == TableGroupAll::Table
                            &&  priceDiscTable.ItemRelation     == this.ProductNumber
                            &&  priceDiscTable.AccountCode      == TableGroupAll::GroupId
                            &&  priceDiscTable.AccountRelation  == #RRP
                            &&  priceDiscTable.Currency         == this.CurrencyCode
                            &&  priceDiscTable.InventDimId      == inventDimId
                            &&  priceDiscTable.PriceUnit        == this.PriceUnit
                    {
                        priceDiscAdmTrans.initFromPriceDiscTable(priceDiscTable);
                    }
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.Relation         = PriceType::PriceSales;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.ItemCode         = TableGroupAll::Table;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.ItemRelation     = this.ProductNumber;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.AccountCode      = TableGroupAll::GroupId;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.AccountRelation  = #RRP;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.Currency         = this.CurrencyCode;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.InventDimId      = inventDimId;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.PriceUnit        = this.PriceUnit;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.JournalNum       = priceDiscAdmTable.JournalNum;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.QuantityAmountFrom  = 0;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.Amount           = this.Amount;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.UnitId           = InventTable::find(this.ProductNumber).salesUnitId();
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.SearchAgain      = NoYes::Yes;
                    priceDiscAdmTrans.insert();
                    if(priceDiscAdmTable.RecId)
                    {
                        priceDiscAdmCheckPost = new PriceDiscAdmCheckPost(false);
                        priceDiscAdmCheckPost.initJournalNum(priceDiscAdmTable.JournalNum);
                        priceDiscAdmCheckPost.run();
                        infolog.clear();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    ttscommit;
}