SC Navigator 24.12.1

Date October 11, 2024

• New Features

  • A new attribute has been created on the Customer Product Data sheet: ‘Minimum Lead Time Adherence’. This attribute determines what percentage of demand for a given customer, location, product, period combination must be fulfilled within the lead time. When you want the model to take this into account, you have to Relax Lead Time on the Control Panel page.

• Improvements

  • The custom objectives of type “Risk” are no longer shown on the control panel page. There would never be data for those custom objectives, so keeping it there could lead to potential confusion.

  • The Risk Analysis page is now initialized after a Risk Analysis is loaded.

  • We received some feedback based on the changes implemented in SC Navigator 24.11.1, so we made some minor changes to the behavior of the “Filter by Node Type”:

    • If you (un)select one of the four standard elements (Customer, Supplier, Warehouse, Production), it will (un)select all the groups of the type. This will now also happen if you have elements that do not belong to a subgroup.

    • Elements that don’t belong to any group, can be shown by unchecking every subgroup, while keeping the related standard element checked.

    • Groups for which only part of the locations are shown, will now have a gray background in the checkbox and a tooltip to indicate that only some of the related locations are shown.

      The full behavior is described in Node Filters.

• Bug Fixes

  • After loading an Excel template (without saving it as a dataset), the widgets on page Data - Customer did not all update correctly when making demand adjustments. Now, the Selected Demand widget refreshes after each Adjust Demand iteration and the table Demand Adjustment updates correctly as well.

  • For Risk Analysis, Profit Decrease is now the same as Cost Increase in case there is no revenue. Previously in this case the Profit Decrease was opposite to the Cost Increase.

  • The attribute ‘Open As Group’ was not included in the template.

  • Curly bracket support for ‘Mode of Transport’ was not working correctly for Custom Cost attributes.

  • Curly bracket support for ‘To Location’ in Stepwise Transport Cost was not working correctly.

  • When not applying variable cost for a warehouse that is at the same location as a production facility, users could get an error message after optimization: “A problem occurred during the optimization. (…)”

  • Previously, when reading input from an Excel file, an empty cell in the first column of a sheet was not properly handled. SC Navigator would not give an error message, while it stopped reading the sheet. In this new version, it will give an error message, indicating that an empty cell was found.

  • On page Data, in the Data Dashboard widget, Suppliers and Supplier groups were not counted correctly.

  • The geocoding did not work correctly if you specified a Postal Code and Country, but not a country-code. In that case, the model was using a special postal-code setup, while that required a country code. This resulted in inaccurate results; in some cases the returned locations were even outside the requested country.

  • The file “_dataset_info.parquet”, created as part of a results dataset, still contained capitals and spaces in the header names. In newly generated results, these headers will now only use lower case and underscores in the names.

  • Some exported parquet files contained columns starting with “unit_of_” that were not expected. These columns will no longer be generated in exported results.

  • In some cases with minimum production, the model could be incorrectly marked as infeasible or display the message “A problem occurred during the optimization.”