Technical datasheet

By the end of our evaluation, my team was impressed with the capabilities
anyLogistix(ALX) offers. We especially liked the overall flexibility, the ability run
multiple scenarios and the presentation of results. ALX is a strong option for
complex Supply Chain Design and Network Simulation analyses.

Chris Hawke,
Director Advanced Analytics at Cardinal Health
Contents
01 ANYLOGISTIX APPROACHES AND FEATURES ............................................................ 01
Greenfield Analysis ............................................................................................................................................ 02
Risk Analysis ...................................................................................................................................................... 02
Network Design and Optimization ..................................................................................................................... 03
Supply Chain Analysis / What-if .......................................................................................................................... 04
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization ................................................................................................................ 05
Transportation Optimization ............................................................................................................................. 05
Digital Twin & Control Tower Support ................................................................................................................ 05

02 ANYLOGISTIX EXTENSIBILITY AND FLEXIBILITY ....................................................... 06

AnyLogic modeling environment ....................................................................................................................... 06
Integration with IT Infrastructure ...................................................................................................................... 06

03 ANYLOGISTIX DATA MANAGEMENT ............................................................................ 07

Data Integration, Editing, & Validation ............................................................................................................... 07
Visualization ..................................................................................................................................................... 07

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES .............................................................................................. 08

CONTACTS ........................................................................................................................ 09
 ANYLOGISTIX APPROACHES AND FEATURES

anyLogistix Approaches and Features

anyLogistix™ (ALX™) by The AnyLogic Company is a supply chain analytics software
Extensibility
for designing, optimizing, and analyzing a company's supply chain. ALX combines
powerful analytical optimization approaches with innovative dynamic simulation Address ALL behaviors in your Supply Chain by extending standard ALX
technologies to offer a comprehensive set of tools for end-to-end supply chain functionality
analytics.

By leveraging both simulation and optimization, users have the best set of tools Visualization
for tackling supply chain challenges, enabling them to gain deep insights into their Observe how your Supply Chain works, validate the model and make
company supply chain, which was previously not possible with any other traditional improvements while verifying assumptions.
solutions.

Measure your Supply Chain

Integrate analytical and dynamic simulation methods for precise
end-to-end supply chain design and analysis. • Dynamic simulation allows you to capture performance over time
enabling you to measure everything in your model.
• anyLogistix™ optimization is powered by CPLEX optimizer from
• Use the plethora of out-of-the box statistics or create your own.
IBM, while simulation is powered by AnyLogic, the industry leading
simulation software tool.
• Capture the uniqueness of your Supply Chain by analyzing and Digital twin of your Supply Chain
simulating EVERY aspect and leave nothing to chance. Create a detailed dynamic simulation model, providing a true
representation of the reality for better decision support.
Modeling “Inside the 4 walls”

Do not stop at the network level, go deeper into your analysis to

improve your Supply Chain efficiency and effectiveness.

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Greenfield Analysis
• Considering both demand and supply sources, the experiment defines the
approximate location(s) for supply chain facilities, considering customer
locations (Simple GFA) or existing site locations (Multi-Echelon GFA).
• Determines the optimal number of supply chain sites, considering customer
service distance (e.g., maximum of 500 miles from a DC to any customer) as a
constraint.
• Can consider both straight routes and actual road pathways between origin
and destination nodes for precise analysis.
• Visualizes Greenfield solutions on the built-in GIS map within ALX to display
flows from the newly defined sites to assigned demand locations, or view only
the concise network tree structure.
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ANYLOGISTIX APPROACHES AND FEATURES
Risk Analysis
• Allows users to experiment with and analyze risks associated with real-life
uncertainties, including lead times, demand fluctuations, resource availability,
and other varying parameters.
• Uncovers how changing a certain parameter value in a scenario affects
the supply chain. Instead of creating multiple scenarios holding different
parameters' values, the user can set up a Variation experiment, which will
automatically vary the required parameter and run a simulation experiment
for each variation.
• Gets ahead of the curve and plans for various supply chain uncertainties
through the built-in Risk Analysis experiment. The experiment considers
operational risks and disruptions while measuring their impact on supply chain
service levels and the time needed to recover.
• With this experiment, understand how variability influences the supply chain:
ALX simulation models consider probabilities for operation timings and
parameter values (e.g., random variable demand).
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Network Design and Optimization

• anyLogistix utilizes the leading analytical solver CPLEX from IBM to uncover
the most profitable supply chain network configuration and optimal flows.
Users can also incorporate other external solvers using a custom experiment.
• Users can conduct supply chain master planning by incorporating user defined
periods (e.g., month, week) into a model to optimize where and how much is
needed to produce, store, and ship.
• Users can modify the predefined objective members or create custom
expressions to solve for various outcomes (e.g., cost minimizing vs profit
maximizing).
• Custom Constraints function allows the application of user-defined
mathematical expressions as constraints for product flows, warehouses and
production. These can be compared using specific methods such as, step
functions, or minimum and maximum value.
• Indicator Constraints allow the user to set conditions for inventory, product,
• Users can determine the number of vehicles required to ship cargo from
and production flows by specifying various If/Then statements (e.g., if flow >
warehouses and distribution centers, while considering both minimum and
X, then store inventory of Y).
maximum load requirements.
• Feasibility Checks within ALX can resolve issues with infeasible scenarios
• The experiment allows users to choose where to locate production sites,
showing the root cause and suggesting changes to remedy scenario data.
specify which commodities they should manufacture, and determine the
• Product Flows (shipment lanes) in the supply chain can be limited by distance
appropriate level of capacity to install.
or travel time, and be linked to specific transportation modes.
• Users can translate findings to business decisions through a wide range of
• Carbon dioxide emissions can be considered.
output statistics, which allow for in-depth analysis of experiment results.

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Supply Chain Analysis / What - if

• It provides a platform for users to create dynamic simulation models for
analyzing time dependent factors, random events, actual system behavior, and
dynamic interactions between elements of the supply chain.
• Considers and defines unique complex logic in network level policies like
replenishment, sourcing, manufacturing, and transportation. Takes into
account resource utilization rates (fleet, people, equipment).
• Provides the ability to perform inside the four walls modeling.
• Equips the user with a flexible data focused what-if scenario testing platform.
• Tracks cash flow with accounts and experiments with payment terms,
considering loans with interest, delayed payments, and down payments.
• Provides live model animation, allowing users and stakeholders to see how the
supply chain operates, while also enabling scenario visualization, so users can
see how the model logically works.
• Analyzes the results of several experiments in a common Comparison
dashboard.
• Any metric can be captured and visualized over time in the supply chain model,
for example, costs, revenue, inventory dynamics, service levels, bullwhip
effect, capacity, utilization, incoming/outgoing orders, and products. Users can
also create their own additional statistics.

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Multi-Echelon
Inventory Optimization
• Safety Stock Estimation allows the user to
determine the optimal amount of safety stock, by
SKU and location, to hold in warehouses based on
a defined customer service level target.
• Users can estimate bullwhip effect (variability)
in the network, identify the root cause, and test
different scenarios to find out the best mitigation
policies.
• Users can leverage Material Requirements Planning
(MRP) within ALX to provide a daily generation
of replenishment and demand orders to be filled
based on demand forecast requirements and safety
stock levels.
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ANYLOGISTIX APPROACHES AND FEATURES
Transportation
Optimization
• Generates the optimal sequence of delivery
routes between distribution centers and
customers (milk runs).
• Produces actionable route plans and provides the
distance and cost of travel between stops.
• Helps to lower the cost of delivery by reducing
empty runs and the number of vehicles needed to
serve demand.
Digital Twin & Control
Tower Support
• The ALX Simulation model can be executed from
the command prompt to run the simulation and
automatically export the output data to Business
Intelligence tool(s).
• The Digital Twin of the supply chain is created
based on the SC definition stored in a database
(e.g., DC’s, Customers, Inventory, etc.).
• The model provides the predicted status of the
supply chain over a user-defined time frame.
• Users can install alerts to notify users of
potential abnormal SC behavior (e.g., stock outs,
bottlenecks, etc.) to take action and mitigate.
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anyLogistix Extensibility and Flexibility

anyLogistix provides users with the ability to customize every element of a supply chain while considering
limitless detail. Create a digital twin of your physical supply chain, with detailed modeling inside the four
walls (manufacturing processes, resources, scheduling, DC processes, layouts, costs, etc.) and data feeds from
external sources, to stay ahead of potential supply chain disruptions.

AnyLogic modeling environment

• Allows the user to model any element of a supply chain at any level of detail. Users can consider such things
as order-picking algorithms, layouts, the number of forklift trucks, workers, or even the number of gates at
warehouses and distribution centers. Users can model manufacturing processes at a factory and take into
account conveyors, pipelines, workers, machine-tolls, working schedules, etc.
• In addition to the included policies, ALX supports their creation and customization. This allows the capture of
any process in a supply chain, including dynamic policies for inventory, sourcing, and transportation.
• Allows users to design and execute their own custom experiments.
• If the statistics are not featured on the standard list, users can add them by using the ALX extension mechanism.
• Extension Manager allows a user to add, enable or disable, or delete ALX extensions.

Integration with IT Infrastructure

anyLogistix can work together with the following software:
• Supply chain management
• ERP
• Business intelligence
• Transportation management
• Demand forecasting
• Production planning
• Inventory management

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anyLogistix Data Management
Data Integration, Editing, & Validation
• Standard MS Excel import and export.
• Additional information can be stored in External tables. They retrieve data
from third-party databases or import it from MS Excel files.
• Scenario interconversion allows users to streamline data management by
allowing outputs of one scenario to be fed as inputs to another (e.g., Network
Optimization experiment to Simulation experiment).
• Data filtering available in user interface.
• The input data validation function reviews the model for data integrity prior to
execution to check for errors and discrepancies automatically.
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Visualization
• Built-in GIS provides a global map of the supply chain along with actual road
pathways between nodes.
• Supply chain objects (e.g., DC, Factory, Customer) and the links between them
can be represented in a high-level structure view to provide a logical network
overview and simplified analysis.
• Supply chain objects and the connections between them can be disabled to aid in
visualization without impacting the function of the model.
• Graphical user interface offers support for HiDPI and Retina displays.
• The software automatically geocodes locations with the built-in GIS system to
produce latitude and longitude based on location information (e.g., zip code, city, etc.).
 Additional resources
• White papers
• Supply Chain Optimization and Simulation: Technology Overview

• Simulation-Based Inventory Planning for the Digital Supply Chain Era

• Supply Chain Digital Transformation: Insights and Tools

• Managing Risks in Supply Chains with Digital Twins and Simulation

• anyLogistix webinar

• anyLogistix demo video – tutorials

• anyLogistix PLE – free version for self-study and education

• Tutorial book

• Case studies

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