LS Retail overview
Ingvar Kristinsson, director
LS Retail team
Landsteinar Strengur
 One of the principal companies providing and
developing retail and hospitality solutions based on
Microsoft Dynamics
 Working with retail since 1988
 Certified world-wide by Navision in 1997
 85 Employees solely working on basis of Microsoft Dynamics
development
 Member of Microsoft® President Club
 Microsoft Business Solutions Global ISV of the Year 2005
 Microsoft Dynamics Regional ISV Partner of the Year 2007 (EMEA)
 LS Retail NAV - CfMD
 Our Partner Network
 75 certified partners
 Representation in 51 countries
Further more
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Beta tester on NAV 5.1
Technical Advisory Partner (TAP) AX 5.0
ISV Partner Advisory Council (ISV PAC)
Among first 6 ISV solution to become Certified for
Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD)
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Tested solution
Service program
More than 10 references
Updated on latest release
 LS Aims to have LS Retail AX certified before end of year
2008
Product focus
 LS Retail NAV
 End to End rich of functionality
 LS Easy Retail
 LS Hospitality
 LS Retail AX
 Upper midsized market
 BO/HO only – integrated to LS POS .NET
 LS POS .NET
 POS for AX and NAV from 5.1
LS Retail AX Customers
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Landsapotekaran in Faeroe Island (30 POS)
Waltons in South Africa (273 POS)
66°N – Fashion chain in Iceland (35 POS)
Office one – Stationary chain in Iceland (28 POS)
Magasin Nord – Department store in Denmark (800 POS)
Build a Bear – Toy store in Denmark (100 POS)
MOTO – Multi Retail at Motor way in UK (750 POS)
LS Retail AX customer
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BS3 – a leading MBS partner in SA
Waltons – a leading stationary supplier in SA
75% of the sales are through distribution, 25% retail
HO, 4 regions, 90 stores and 300 terminals
1750 total users, 800 concurrent
Replication of data between HO, regions and stores
Replication of non-retail data, about 650 tables are
replicated
LS Retail AX main features
 Retail item
 Hierarchy, variants, item life
cycle
 Item import
 Validation, calculation of price,
price points etc.
 Offer management
 Discount offer, Multi buy, Mix &
match
 Budgeting
 Sales and Purchase
 Replenishment
 Group, rules
 Concession
One End-to-End solution
Set-up
Item management
End-of-day transaction
RetailAX
LSLS
Retail
Axapta
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POS 1
POS 1
POS 2
POS 2 .......
POS n
POS n
LS Retail architect
LS Retail
NAV/AX
LS Retail
Axapta
Instant transaction posting
Centralized transaction suspension
Customer validation
Staff validation
Floating staff
Etc..
Transaction
Service
POS
POS
Update Service
Data Director
Data Director
All standard dataflow
Product master
POS settings
Staff information
Transactions
Etc..
Item Card
Store configuration
POS configuration
LS POS .NET
 A .NET POS fully integrated with LS Retail AX
 Creating a powerful end-to-end retail solution
 Adopting to the latest Microsoft platform
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Visual Studio 2005
Programmed in C# (.NET)
SQL Express
WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service)
Point of Sale
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LS – Point of Sale
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Multiple Interface Layouts
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Samples in Default
User definable
Graphics support
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On buttons
By Staff
Multiple Hardware
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Samples included
User definable
Any Screen size
Multiple Languages
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Touch Screen
OPOS support
Keyboard Support
On Buttons
On Items
Multiple payments
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In Currency
By Cards
Product focus
 POS always up and running
 Resilient design and architecture
 Database on the POS
 Right Data on right time at right place
 Complex data structure
 Optimised posting routines
 Functionality
 In line with the customers and partners need
 Focus on specail Retail sectors, as Fashion, Department, DIY,
Forecourt, Supermarket, Pharmacy etc..
AX – POS Push
Axapta
Scheduler
Data Director
LS POS.NET
LS POS.NET
LS POS.NET
AX – POS Pull
Axapta
Scheduler
Data Director
LS POS.NET
LS POS.NET
LS POS.NET
Scheduler
“The LS Data Director Replication
solution is such a fundamental factor
for successes of the project, the
stability and robustness of this
solution will help us achieve our goal
of data flow consistency and data
integrity through the business”
- Francois Reyneke, Financial Director
Waltons
Possible architecture
Head office
Axapta
Store
Store
Axapta
Axapta
LS POS
.NET
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LS POS
.NET
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Store
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Region
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Axapta
LS POS
.NET
Store
Store
Axapta
Axapta
LS POS
.NET
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LS POS
.NET
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Store
LS POS
.NET
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LS POS .NET Architect
UI Components
UI Process Components
Application Settings
Security
Logging
Business
Entities
Data Access
Logic
Data Source
Business
Workflows
Service Agents
Services
Price
Discounts
EFT connections
Tax
Currency
Queries
Gift cards
E-Top Up
CCTV
Etc..
Services
IPrice
System Core
Price.dll
The default price module
supplied by
Landsteinar Strengur
Discount.dll
An extended
The
default discount
discount
module implemented
supplied by by
Landsteinar
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Partner Strengur
Tax.dll
The European tax rules
module supplied by
Landsteinar Strengur
EFT.dll
Sample EFT
A localised
EFTModule
module
Supplied by by
implemented
Landsteinar
Strengur
a
parter
IDiscount
Example:
The use of service modules
during a transaction
ITax
IEFT
Platforms and technology
 Development environment
 Visual Studio 2005
 C# - .NET Framework 2.0
 Database
 SQL Express
 Data replication
 Data Director
 .NET Remoting
 Peripherals
 OPOS
Recommended resources
 Processor
 1 GHz or faster
 RAM
 512 MB
 Operating system
 WEPOS
 Windows XP SP2
 Windows 2000 SP4
Current and Next releases
 LS POS .NET 5.2
 LS POS .NET 5.3 – 15. December 2007
 Version Definition September 2007
 LS POS .NET 5.5 – 31. May 2008
Current and Next releases
 LS Retail AX 3.5 – on Dynamics AX 3.0
 LS Retail AX 4.0 – on Dynamics AX 4.0
 LS Retail AX 4.1 – 15. December 2007
 Version definition September 2007
 LS Retail AX 5.0 – 31. May 2008 (depends on availability of AX 5.0)
www.LSRetail.com
Thank you