Optilogic Training Courses teach teams to model, analyze, and optimize supply chains with confidence. Learn Cosmic Frog and DataStar through expert-led, hands-on sessions that deliver faster insights, stronger decisions, and measurable ROI.
Are you looking for greater detail in transportation cost to complement your network designs? Transportation route optimization can provide the insight needed to answer tough questions: Should I consolidate shipments onto multi-stop routes? What should my fleet size be? What empty miles can I save if I incorporate backhauls? Does utilization improve if I adjust my time windows?
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Date: January 21, 2026 01:00 PM EST
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From high-level strategy tools that reveal where to open your next DC, to detailed simulations that mirror real-world operations, this episode offers a first look at the technology reshaping supply chain design - and the why behind it all. You’ll see how different engines balance scope and detail, and why choosing the right one can mean the difference between runaway costs and breakthrough efficiency.
This episode is your first guided tour of the apps that form the backbone of every modeling project. You’ll discover where to find free demo models to kickstart your work, how to track and learn from your own runs, and even how to collaborate with your team inside the brand-new Teams Hub.
In this episode, Mert from Optilogic walks you through the essentials of creating, managing, and sharing models inside Cosmic Frog. You’ll learn how to spin up a new model from scratch, use resource library templates to get a head start, and organize your growing collection with filters and search
This video answers that by introducing the foundational components that make every Cosmic Frog model work — the locations, products, connections, and rules that form the backbone of your digital supply chain.
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Learn how to navigate the DataStar interface and understand the core concepts behind your data transformation workflows. This overview walks you through the Optilogic platform, including projects, macros, data connections, and how to use Leapfrog AI to build tasks with natural language prompts.
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Ready to take your modeling skills to the next level? Join Leapfrog 102 for a hands-on walk-through of the latest AI-powered use cases—designed to help you explore, edit, and optimize like a pro inside Cosmic Frog.
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This session will give users and introduction to the Hopper engine. Typical Hopper use cases, differences and synergies with other Optilogic engines, and high level solve approach will be covered. The session will also equip users with the base input information needed for models, as well as types of outputs.
This session examines the inputs for an outbound multi stop routing model within Cosmic Frog. Base elements, pickup and delivery constraints, assets, costs and time considerations will be covered.
This session covers Hopper scenarios that consider tradeoffs between reatining current route configurations and customer segmentation vs. relaxation of these rules.
This session covers Hopper scenarios that considers the impact of adjusting various factors when routing outbound shipments. Considerations include business hours, asset types available, and origin locations for the shipments.
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Understand the conceptual elements of simulation modeling, what makes simulation unique as a modeling methodology, and questions that can be addressed with simulation.
Learn the foundational elements of building supply chain simulation models in Cosmic Frog, including Model Elements, Transportation, Sourcing, Production, Inventory, and Demand (Orders).
Step-by-step instruction to be able to confidently run your own simulation model and review outputs.
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This chapter tackles one of the most common hurdles in supply chain modeling: infeasibility. You’ll see how Cosmic Frog flags errors when your model can’t satisfy all its constraints, and more importantly, how to track down the root cause. Starting with the validation report, you’ll learn how to spot critical errors, trace them back through sourcing or transportation policies, and fix the issues step by step.
In this session we explore the basic and advanced concepts of Greenfield modeling with Cosmic Frog. We begin with covering typical use cases and minimum data requirements to build and run your first model in Cosmic Frog. We'll demonstrate the more advanced features available, such as costs tradeoffs, solving for set versus optimized location counts, throughput limits, service bands, suppliers and candidate locations.
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This election cycle has introduced many potential shifts in government regulations and policies around the world. Don Hicks explains why companies must use supply chain design to proactively adapt supply chain strategies and mitigate these disruptions--or risk extinction.
Optilogic loves consultants. Optilogic founder and CEO Don Hicks explains how Optilogic is the only supply chain design solution that allows the consulting community to have free access to the technology to learn and train and only pay when its used for client work. Optilogic will be there to support you every step of the way.
Supply chain design isn't just about the technology (and Cosmic Frog is the best). Listen to Don Hicks explain how the majority of the success in supply chain design is around the people--the users and also the people that stand behind the technology.
Many people mistakenly believe supply chain design is just about "big bang" strategic projects like moving facilities and changing suppliers. Don Hicks explains that supply chain design is also for evaluating things like changing which SKUs are stocked in which location, different transportation modes, frequencies of replenishment, and other updates. Supply chain design is about changing supply chain structure and policies and detailed business rules. You can evaluate any potential changes to the supply chain: from the biggest to the tiniest operational changes.
We often hear the questions, how is supply chain design different than supply chain planning? Is supply chain design as critical as planning? Listen to Don Hicks explain how the two technologies are distinct but equally important to ensure the survival of your company.
"Most supply chain software vendors are completely full of s#!%," according to Don Hicks. Hear why he thinks this, why you should never be confused by what a potential vendor is selling you, and how you can expect something refreshingly different from the Optilogic supply chain design team.
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