Announcing the Release of Supply Chain Guru version 2.8

January 16, 2006 - Supply Chain Guru version 2.8 is now available to LLamasoft customers. It was released on January 10, 2006. The many new features prove, once again, that LLamasoft is leading the world in supply chain optimization and simulation technology.

President and CEO of LLamasoft, Donald Hicks, states "Supply Chain Guru release 2.8 is an exciting new upgrade that further illustrates LLamasoft's leadership in this area. Most of the new features in this new release were driven based on customer feedback and requests. We know most modeling efforts require responsiveness from the developer and release 2.8 clearly demonstrates LLamasoft's commitment to making each and every customer successful."

Version 2.8 of Supply Chain Guru includes a feature that will automatically calculate inventory policy settings. The Auto Calculate Inventory Policy Settings tool can be found under the Tools menu. Based on the average demand, its standard deviation, the replenishment lead time, the type of sourcing policy and the desired service rate inventory settings (such as reorder point and reorder/order up to qty), Supply Chain Guru can automatically change the inventory policy settings so that the selected service rate will be achieved at sites that source customers.

Apart from the Auto Calculate Inventory Policy Setting tool, LLamasoft recently focused on the addition of several graphs to enhance the ability to analyze supply chains. A Graphs menu option has been added on the menu bar with several new graphs below. Besides the Supply & Demand and Single Scenario graphs, there are two new graphs that allow you to analyze the optimization output network summary and site summary results. Four simulation output graphs have been added to display the network summary, site summary, product summary and asset summary details.

Also, the new Show Statistics tool calculates the average of values in a certain column on an output table. It is located under the Metrics menu and also on the edit toolbar. The Show Statistics tool creates a new table with that shows the average per site/per product, the standard deviation, the number of values for which the statistics are calculated, and the 95th percentile upper and lower confidence intervals.

If you have a maintenance and support agreement, you may view all of the details in this new release on the version history page.