SC Navigator 24.14.1

Date December 12, 2024

• New Features

  • It is now possible to run optimizations in the background, allowing you to continue using SC Navigator without interruptions, including starting additional solves. Once all active optimization runs are completed, a notification and/or dialog page will appear to inform you. If you prefer not to solve an optimization in the background, you can turn off the ‘Solve in Background’ option on the Control Panel page in the Model Control table.

  • Two new attributes are introduced on the ‘Transport Cost’ sheet: ‘Base Case Minimum Capacity’ and ‘Base Case Maximum Capacity’. These attributes allow for more flexibility in base case modeling.

  • Another two attribute are introduced on the ‘Location Period’ sheet: ‘Receive into Warehouse’ and ‘Dispatch from Warehouse’. They indicate, respectively, whether all inflow and all outflow should be received/dispatched via a warehouse at the location. See Location Related Attributes for details.

  • Several new attributes are introduced on the Production Routing sheet: ‘BOM Fixed Cost’, ‘Force Open’, ‘Force Close’, ‘Opening Cost’, ‘Closing Cost’, ‘Open as Group’, and ‘Initial Status Closed’. These attributes allow for more flexibility in Bill of Material modeling. When exporting results, the Production BOM results sheet will also have new attributes: ‘BOM Fixed Cost’, ‘BOM Variable Cost’, ‘Opening Cost’, ‘Closing Cost’, ‘Force Open’, ‘Force Close’, and ‘BOM In Use’. More information can be found in the section How the Bill of Material works in SC Navigator?.

• Bug Fixes

  • When trying to download results from older datasets, an error could occur: “Something went wrong when creating the file.” Now, all Results Datasets can be downloaded.

  • In previous versions, the ‘Grid Distance’ (in Center of Gravity) was not adjusted based on lead time and maximal driving time. This could lead to situations where the grid distance was too large for the given parameters. This version will adjust the ‘Grid Distance’ to make sure that this is always within the recommended upper and lower bound, by moving it to the nearest bound. Theses bounds will now also consider customer ‘Lead Time’.

  • The “Refundable with Limit” functionality was not working correctly.

  • A new version of the Inventory Planning app has been published. When starting the previous version (24.10.1), Inventory Planning raised an error. The error prevented you from loading a configuration and dataset.