Hi,
We have an AX setup whereby the store server licensing has been done per branch/location, where each location houses several stores which represent concepts/brands. Please refer to the below to understand the scenario better:
- There exists 4 branches/location; viz, M, P, A and Q
- There are a total of 4 brands, per location, M {X,S,P,B}, P {X,S,P,B}, A {X,S,P,B} and Q {X,S,P,B}
- Each location has one physical store server licensed with one SS license.
- Therefore 4 SS licenses for 16 stores.
- Transfer to stores is from the main DC to XM, SM, PM, BM and the same would be for the other stores.
Questions:
1. Is there a limit to how many stores one store server license can support?
2. Would the current licensing model have a compliance impact with Microsoft?
3. Would the current setup have any functional impact for the planning, warehouse and finance department?
4. What if transfers and all other functional processes would be done per location and not store wise, how would this impact system functionality?
5. Does the current setup add more workload to the functional users or would the setup in number 4 be more suitable?
6. Should each store have it's own separate store server license? therefore, we should have 16 store server licenses rather than just 4.
The implementation was done on the 4 store server license for 16 stores, but a concern has been raised by our consultants that the initial licensing they proposed was not correct. This will clearly have a financial impact, as more licenses will be required. Considering that we have been running this setup for 1 year and only now that this has been flagged, please advice on how to go about this from the compliance side and functional side.
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Moe
