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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By now, we’ve all either heard of or personally experienced the impact of the global chip shortage. But how did our automotive supply chain get to this distressed state? In the simplest of terms, what we’re seeing is the result of strong demand with essentially no supply. This concept is nothing new. In fact, supply chains can be specifically built to withstand shocks to the system. However, the pandemic was something that our supply chain simply wasn’t prepared for, and we’re still feeling its impact, two years later. Here’s what you need to know.
The day-to-day at Optilogic is constantly changing (and fun), and the way that users implement our software has continued to surprise and inspire us. In a recent project, we built out an application that combined both demand analytics and optimization for short and long term supply chain development.
With supply chain disruptions on the rise, you’ve probably started to experience drastic shifts in demand, labor shortages and structural concerns. Can your supply chain withstand the next disruption?
Recently the Optilogic team has been running into projects that require simulation or a combination of simulations and advanced solving techniques to properly address customer questions about their supply chains. Here are our thoughts on why simulation is becoming more common as a modeling tool than in years past, and how it can make a major impact on any business.
If you’re looking for a simple way to test your legacy supply chain models in Optilogic Cosmic Frog, we have good news: Our model converter can automate around 70% of the work for you. Converting your legacy models is easy (and free!)
I was listening to Jonathan Wright, Global Managing Partner for Supply Chain Consulting at IBM - discussing with Malcolm Gladwell on his podcast Managing supply chain volatility in the height of the shopping season the latest evolution of supply chain innovation spawned by the global pandemic. And it got me thinking...
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An increasing number of U.S. companies are evaluating how to move all or part of their supply chain out of China to increase resiliency. Here’s how to model your China supply chain exit strategy to reduce risk and improve service.
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.
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.
This chapter walks through a practical, real-world loop: export a demand table to Excel/CSV, make changes, then import it back. You’ll see the two import paths in action—Replace (wipe and reload) and Upsert (update existing rows, insert new ones)—and how Cosmic Frog keeps you honest with Model Activity cards, record counts, and clear success checks. By the end, you’ll know exactly when to use each method, how to avoid accidental data loss, and how primary keys decide what gets updated vs. created.
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.
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.
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