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.
This live training session shows you how to use DataStar’s AI-first capabilities to replace manual configuration with natural language, automate repetitive tasks with AI agents, and turn raw data into insights in minutes. Through hands-on exercises and real examples, you’ll see how users reduce days of work to minutes, migrate legacy workflows with AI assistance, and expand modeling and analysis by combining data transformation, machine learning, optimization, and AI agents. The session covers core skills including building your first DataStar project, mastering Leapfrog AI prompting, and exploring the latest Optilogic innovations, ideal for new users, analysts, and modelers moving from legacy tools.
Date: December 17th, 2025 12:00 PM EST
Explore Optilogic’s on-demand training library, curated to help you learn exactly what you need, when you need it. Access everything at your fingertips and move through each module at your own pace.
This interactive training session will enable users to successfully navigate the Cosmic Frog solution, build and run a basic model with scenarios, and visualize a model and its results in the platform. Sample model input data will be shared, giving attendees the option to follow along with the model, scenario, maps, and analytics dashboard build portions of the training. Attendees who wish to follow along will have an opportunity to create a free Optilogic account during the training if they have not done so beforehand.
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
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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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Step-by-step instruction to be able to confidently run your own simulation model and review outputs.
Learn the foundational elements of building supply chain simulation models in Cosmic Frog, including Model Elements, Transportation, Sourcing, Production, Inventory, and Demand (Orders).
Understand the conceptual elements of simulation modeling, what makes simulation unique as a modeling methodology, and questions that can be addressed with simulation.
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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.
Frogger Pond is the premier online destination for supply chain designers to share best practices, connect with peers, and contribute to thought leadership. We're thrilled to announce that our platform is live and ready for you to explore.
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.
The Optilogic Frogger Pond community is live! It’s the premier online destination for supply chain designers to share questions, ideas, job postings, give product feedback, and more.
Sequential optimization is a powerful optimization technique used in supply chain modeling. It involves breaking down a multi-objective optimization problem into a series of single-objective sub-problems. Here’s how to use sequential optimization in Cosmic Frog.
For companies with a physical supply chain, supply chain network design is central to your success. By understanding and optimizing supply chain network design, you positively impact every aspect of your business. If you manage a supply chain function and are considering adopting network design, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled the goals, benefits, and best practices of supply chain network design that will help your organization thrive.
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During an election year, uncertainty always seems to ramp up until a winner is declared. This year’s election is different from most. Hear from supply chain expert Don Hicks in this CCJ podcast.
Success in supply chain design doesn’t require a big investment or huge internal infrastructure. Instead, the focus should be on supply chain design throughout the organization.
Discover how these six innovative modeling tools within Cosmic Frog revolutionize supply chain design, driving efficiency and value in complex environments. Transform your operations, streamline processes, and enhance decision-making with our game-changing solutions.
BASF’s Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence & Performance Organization will leverage Optilogic Cosmic Frog to test robustness of future supply chain designs and empower business users.
Supply chain simulation is the most granular modeling technique. This preferred method for service level analysis shows how business rules, policies, product requirements, etc. impact demand, manufacturing cycle times, staffing requirements, transportation lead times, and more. These insights can be instrumental for a multi-tiered supply chain’s inventory strategy.
Mid-market company supply chains grapple with many of the same challenges large companies face. Here’s why supply chain design is crucial to the future success of mid-market companies and how they can take advantage of the same technology and benefits as their Fortune 100 counterparts.
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Explore all Optilogic resources in one place — from expert-led webinars and thought leadership blogs to customer success stories and product videos.
See how Optilogic combines advanced modeling, risk analysis, and expert support to deliver faster decisions and measurable supply chain results.
