Below you’ll find a summary of the latest features in AIMMS Network Design

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Custom Costs

You can now configure custom cost elements to include in the optimization. These costs can be added at all points in the supply chain where physical costs are incurred. Example use cases are the addition of taxes and duties, carbon costs and inventory holding costs.

Watch a demo of custom costs in Network Design

Data Validation

We have added some data validation checks in Data Navigator that will pick up common data issues before saving the dataset, so that these can be fixed before running into infeasibility issues in the Network app. 

Learn more about data validation in this article: 

Expanded Control Panel

We have expanded the current control panel to give the user more options and control to configure a scenario from the control panel in the browser, instead of having to return to the Excel data template. For example, it is now possible to switch on minimum and maximum constraints separately from the control panel.  It is also possible to edit key parameters like supply and resource capacities and costs directly from the control panel in the browser.

Excel Data Template

We have made some changes to the Excel data template to make it easier and more intuitive to capture data.

Despite these changes, it will still be possible to upload old data templates that use the old format, subject to a warning message, so that users do not have to reconfigure old data templates.

Transport costing

We added further capability to model transport costs such as stepwise cost functions, and take or pay arrangements

Find out more about Take-or-Pay in this article: 

Find out more about Step cost transportation: 

Data separation

We added the ability to separate data between different business units and projects in the same environment.