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Optilogic Cosmic Frog Companion Apps Revolutionize How Designers Answer Supply Chain Questions Across the Enterprise
New Cosmic Frog Companion Apps enable designers to deploy Cosmic Frog to Microsoft Excel and mobile applications to answer unlimited supply chain questions in a self-serve environment.
2024 Elections Could Shake Up the Global Supply Chain—Here’s Your Voter’s Guide
With elections in roughly 50 countries worldwide and U.S. voting day right around the corner, supply chain executives must understand how major shifts in trade policies could impact their operations. Here are some tactics for using supply chain design to prepare for election outcomes.
Rebecca Janowiak of Optilogic Named Recipient of 2024 Women in Supply Chain Award
Rebecca Janowiak of Optilogic named recipient of 2024 Women in Supply Chain Award. Award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.
Evaluating Sustainability Metrics with Supply Chain Modeling
Taking a truly proactive approach to supply chain design that enables sustainability and profitability is easier today than ever before thanks to solutions that can model sustainability risk factors and evaluate. Gain insights from Optilogic’s VP Business Development, John Ames Jr.
Optilogic Cosmic Frog Named Winner of the Risk Management Innovation of the Year Award by SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards
The leading supply chain design software innovator Optilogic today announced Cosmic Frog has been selected as winner in the Risk Management Innovation of the Year category by SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics Name Optilogic and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Recipients of 2024 Top Supply Chain Projects Award
Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics named Optilogic and customer Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) as winners of this year’s Top Supply Chain Projects award.
Optilogic Works with Leading Global Lubricant Brand for Supply Chain Optimisation
The leading supply chain design software innovator Optilogic is working with Castrol, one of the world’s leading lubricant brands. Optilogic will provide its proprietary software, services, and in-depth expertise in supply chain design to support Castrol in optimizing its global supply chain network.
Optilogic’s Next Generation Transportation and Route Simulation Engines Enable Organizations To Address Complex Realities of Transportation Logistics
Significant updates in Cosmic Frog allow for more accurate multi-stop route design with realistic business constraints like time windows and hours of service.
Optilogic Hosts OptiCon 2024: The Supply Chain Design Design Event of the Year
The leading supply chain design software innovator Optilogic announces its annual user conference, OptiCon 2024, featuring supply chain design solution training, focused breakout sessions and customer case studies from industry giants Coca-Cola, Gerdau, and Whirlpool.
Optilogic and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas to Present on Supply Chain Design at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2024
The leading supply chain design software innovator Optilogic today announced its Vice President of Professional Services Mark Outslay and Deputy Head of Corporate Logistics Department for Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Evrim Ertugrul will present on supply chain design at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive Names John Ames Jr. of Optilogic as Recipient of 2024 Pros to Know Lifetime Achievement Award
John Ames Jr. has been a proactive advocate for supply chain design, working with Optilogic to emphasize the importance of evaluating cost, service, risk, and sustainability trade-offs of future supply chains.
Improve M&A Success with Supply Chain Design
In a global M&A market that even experts describe as unpredictable, this is certain: Deal velocity will ramp up again, and when it does, preparedness is the difference between champagne toasts and failure.
For companies with a physical supply chain, network design is the secret weapon dealmakers use to rapidly evaluate the cost, service and risk trade-offs of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures — before investing a dime.
Don Hicks: Design vs. Planning, the 2024 Election, and Advice for SC Executives
Donald Hicks, Founder and CEO of Optilogic, joins to discuss the state of the supply chain industry and how now is the time to shift out of a ‘reactive’ mode and into a ‘proactive’ and forward-thinking system of operations.
2024 Predictions: A New Era of Strategic Supply Chain Design
The time for pandemic-era thinking is over. This will be the year of strategic supply chain design — but companies must be shrewd in their technology and vendor selection.
Following are six predictions for the new era of strategic supply chain design in 2024.
Optilogic Announces the Acquisition of INSIGHT Software
Supply chain design software innovator Optilogic today announced it has acquired INSIGHT, a software provider with a formidable history of more than 40 years in the supply chain design space serving some of the most illustrious companies in the world.
Mexico’s Leading Poultry Provider, Bachoco, Partners with Optilogic to Optimize its Logistical Efficiencies
By using Cosmic Frog, the most powerful supply chain design solution on the market, the North American poultry leader will ensure ongoing excellence in delivering fresh, quality products to customers.
Gerdau Selects Optilogic Cosmic Frog for Continuous Supply Chain Design
Gerdau Long Steel North America (Gerdau) has chosen Optilogic as its provider for supply chain design solutions. Gerdau will use Optilogic’s next-generation cloud-native technology, Cosmic Frog, to support its S&OP process, as well as to deploy intelligent continuous design to build a more flexible, resilient, yet performance-driven supply chain.
Optilogic Revolutionizes Supply Chain Design with Fast, Automated Transportation Route Optimization
Supply chain design software innovator Optilogic is once again leap-frogging the competition by introducing Cosmic Frog “Hopper”, automated transportation route optimization built into its Cosmic Frog supply chain design solution.
Optilogic’s Groundbreaking Sensitivity at Scale Enables Large-Scale Sensitivity Analysis With a Single Click
Supply chain network design software innovator, Optilogic, is making true large-scale sensitivity analysis possible with Sensitivity at Scale, which runs hundreds or thousands of sensitivity scenarios in parallel with a single click.
Optilogic’s Rebecca Janowiak Named Recipient of 2023 Women in Supply Chain Award
Rebecca Janowiak was named as one of the winners of this year’s Women in Supply Chain Award, which honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.
Optilogic Defies Market Dynamics to Secure New Funding and Investment Partners
Supply chain network design software innovator, Optilogic, has secured funding from new partners Augment Ventures and Beringea and existing investors MK Capital and Multiverse Investments. The funding supports Optilogic’s rapid growth and makes a new era of supply chain design a reality.
Optilogic Wins Silver Stevie® Award in 2023 International Business Awards®
Supply chain network design software innovator, Optilogic, announced today the company was named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Supply Chain Management Solution category in The 20th Annual International Business Awards®.
Why We Need to Stop Ignoring Simulation for Inventory Uncertainty
For years, simulation was dismissed because of performance and memory requirements. Nowadays, those barriers are gone, meaning simulations can be completed at the order and shipment level, allowing businesses to calculate true service rates for proposed supply chain states.
Optilogic Launches Frogger Pond Supply Chain Design Community
Supply chain network design software innovator, Optilogic, has launched the Frogger Pond supply chain design community, the premier online destination for supply chain design practitioners to share best practices, connect with peers, and provide product feedback. Frogger Pond is accessible via the award-winning cloud-native supply chain network design app Cosmic Frog.
Optilogic Shortlisted at The SaaS Awards 2023
Supply chain network design software innovator, Optilogic, has been shortlisted in the 2023 SaaS Awards program in the category “Best SaaS Newcomer”.
Now in its 8th year, The SaaS Awards continues to celebrate the ultimate SaaS innovations across the globe. Entries were received from North America, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Australasia.
Nexterus Partners with Optilogic to Leverage the Powerful Supply Chain Design Tool to Build Optimal Networks for Clients
Nexterus, a world-class supply chain management and third-party logistics (3PL) services provider, announces a partnership with supply chain design software innovator Optilogic. The Nexterus team will use Optilogic’s Cosmic Frog to design robust supply chains that improve an enterprise’s financial objectives, service levels, and risk.
Optilogic Introduces Personalized Risk Profiling in Cosmic Frog Supply Chain Network Design Platform
Supply chain design software innovator Optilogic today announced personalized risk profiling, available as part of its Cosmic Frog supply chain network design solution. Cosmic Frog is the fastest network design solution and provides a risk score on every scenario to help companies proactively minimize risk and volatility.
Optilogic to Host OptiCon 2023: The Supply Chain Design Event of the Year
OptiCon draws together supply chain design professionals from an array of industries for hands-on product training, customer case studies, personalized advice from experts, focused breakout sessions, and world-class food and entertainment.
Optilogic Cosmic Frog Network Optimization Runs 40% Faster than Competitor Solutions
Supply chain network design software innovator Optilogic today announced the superiority of its Cosmic Frog supply chain design platform in performance tests compared to competitive solutions. Network design models run in Cosmic Frog saved 40% in run time in aggregate. Intelligent Greenfield analysis also outperformed competitors by an average of 80%, and “Lightning Mode,” a new capability in the newest version of Cosmic Frog slashes model run time by an astonishing 95%.
Optilogic’s Rebecca Janowiak Named a Winner of Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pros to Know” for 2023
Supply chain design software innovator Optilogic is proud to announce that Optilogic Vice President of Product Management Rebecca Janowiak is one of the winners of the 2023 “Pros to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. This award recognizes outstanding executives whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage supply chains for competitive advantage.
Announcement: Optilogic Launches Cosmic Frog, the Industry’s First 100-Percent SaaS-based Supply Chain Design Solution
Supply chain software company Optilogic announced the general release of its next-generation Cosmic Frog supply chain design software. Cosmic Frog positions Optilogic as a new leader in the supply chain design market by empowering organizations to design supply chain networks in a cloud-native environment.
Announcement: Optilogic Joins the Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium
Supply chain design software company Optilogic announced today that it has officially joined the Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium (SCRM), a coalition of businesses and organizations dedicated to the furthering of identification, assessment, mitigation and management of global supply chain risks.
Announcement: Optilogic Introduces Supply Chain Design Services
We’ve assembled a group of experts from the supply chain industry to build out the Professional Services team at Optilogic. Whether you’re a customer, a partner, or a prospective customer, our Professional Services team has the expertise to help you incorporate design thinking and leverage cloud-based solutions for even your most ambitious modeling, optimization, and simulation projects.