SC Navigator 24.11.1

Date September 13, 2024

• Improvements

  • Upon completion of the optimization run, SC Navigator will now popup a system notification, indicating that the solver is ready. This is useful when solving the model takes a lot of time and your are doing something else in the mean time. You can turn this off on the Control Panel page. Please note that the first time, you have to select in your browser that you allow this page to send notifications.

  • On page Results, on the View Options side panel, the behavior of the “Filter by Node Type” has been adjusted. The new behavior is as follows:

    • SC Navigator shows those locations for which all groups, to which this element belongs, are checked. (In the past, it was primarily based on checking/unchecking one group, but it was not clear to the user which group that was.)

    • 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 not happen if you have elements that do not belong to a subgroup.

    • If you unselect a subgroup, it will not impact the related standard element. (If you do that, item 1 will turn them all off).

    • The table no longer shows an icon for groups that have multiple node types.

  We changed this behavior to better handle the situation where multiple node types are located in one place, as well as the situation where groups contain multiple node types.

  • For rate card input data, it is now possible to define negative values. This allows for defining a formula for your rate card cost with a negative component in it (e.g. ax - b). The resulting rate card lane unit cost do need to be non-negative. The data validation has been updated accordingly: instead of checking the input data itself, the rate card lane unit cost is calculated and only when that is negative, it will result in an error.

  • We removed some unnecessary blank columns from the Excel Template. Furthermore, on sheets with an ‘Attribute’ column, the ‘Description of the attribute’ column is now aligned with the ‘Attribute’ column.

  • During data validation, when an incorrect date format is used, the following error message will now be displayed: “The attributes ‘Start Date’ and ‘End Date’ need to be valid dates in a date format. That is not the case for date with name …”.

  • The documentation on the Infeasibility Analysis has been improved. You can now read in more detail what you can do to find the cause of an infeasibility.

  • The documentation on the End To End Results has been improved, such that it is more clear what the data in the table represents.

• Bug Fixes

  • On page Results - Production, in the top-right corner, the Bill of Material filter is now applied to the production volume chart. This allows for a more granular view of production data based on specific Bill of Materials produced in a production resource.

  • Previously, internal flows could occur at locations with two or more warehouses, even if those warehouses lacked inventory capabilities and the location did not have production facilities. This is no longer possible, as internal flows are now restricted under these conditions.