SC Navigator 24.3.1

Date February 26, 2024

• New Features

  • The Whiteboard feature has been added: a powerful tool designed to streamline supply chain modeling. This innovative feature allows you to create a diagram of your supply chain network and translate it into an Excel template. The Whiteboard enhances the speed and accuracy of supply chain modeling, while also serving as an introduction to the SC Navigator approach of capturing the behavior and configuration of real-world supply chains in a spreadsheet. More information can be found in the Whiteboard documentation.

• Improvements

  • The Inventory Cover functionality has been improved by introducing "Maximum Inventory Cover". The attribute "Inventory Cover" has been renamed to "Minimum Inventory Cover". With these attributes you can set the minimum / maximum number of next periods' outflow covered in inventory.

  • On page Results - Transportation, the Transport Results table is added, showing all transport lanes including their capacities.

  • The node colors on the main map have been updated to improve visibility and to better distinguish between different nodes and resource groups. The old colors are still available via the widget action Customize Nodes on the main map.

• Bug Fixes

  • The Enforce Base Case Constraints option was not handled correctly when applying this via the scenario functionality. As a side effect, checking or unchecking that option will be faster.

  • The Trade-Off Analysis did not work correctly. The model would sometimes report the solution incorrectly as infeasible.

  • The changes made in version 24.2.1 with respect to group count constraints could result in very slow performance in instances with a high number of suppliers, productions and/or warehouses. This new version resolves those slowdowns.

  • The "Risk" attribute for custom objectives was not populated correctly when generating templates. Values were written to the column of attribute "Refundable with Limit".

  • SC Navigator would report models with inventory and {warehouse group} capacity constraint incorrectly as infeasible. This was due to a constraint being enforced for group values, but for one variable (outflow) the flow was calculated but for the other variable (inventory) it was not.

  • The template was not generated correctly when custom objectives had a "-" in their name.

  • When a custom objective was renamed, its previous name was still taken into account.

  • When capacities were only defined at the product level, the tooltips of the charts on the result pages did not show them.

  • On page Trade-Off Analysis, the Run button could be pressed multiple times, triggering more runs than needed.

  • On page Center of Gravity, if the option Move to Closest City was selected, the tooltip and the result tables used different names for locations.

  • When there was a Trade-Off Analysis run in progress and a new Trade-Off Analysis run started with a newly loaded dataset, the previously started runs and the new runs were conflicted.

  • The Data Validation was numerically more strict than the network constraints.

  • On the Circular Flow page and the Load Optimization Results dialog, some internal names were visible. These are now properly translated to understandable names.

  • Forced Flow data validation with active inventory was not working correctly with groups.