IBM LogicNet Plus XE V7.2 delivers improved agility to address supply chain challenges through enhanced ease of use and integrated business analytics
IBM United States Software Announcement 211-375October 4, 2011
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IBM® ILOG® LogicNet Plus XE V7.2 enables you to more easily address both strategic and tactical supply chain decisions through enhanced ease of use and improved network design, sourcing optimization, and transportation modeling capabilities.
Benefits include:
- Strategic and tactical business recommendations can be developed quicker thus increasing speed-to-market and supply chain agility.
- The new navigation structure enable users to better understand the context and relationships of the various data tables, which makes for faster model building and scenario comparison.
- More accessible and intuitive solution for business analysts who may not have backgrounds in operations or supply chain is delivered.
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| Overview |
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IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE V7.2 is a packaged decision-support solution for supply chain strategic planning such as network design and sourcing optimization. It is intended to complement and enhance existing investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS) solutions. Specifically, IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE V7.2 may help:
- Design supply chains to achieve up to 15% reduction in logistics cost and up to 5% in manufacturing costs: Rationalize global supply chains to reduce operational costs though trade off between transportation, manufacturing, and facility costs. Manage business growth and capital investments by determining where and when new facilities are needed.
- Improve customer service levels: Understand the trade-offs between least-cost and high-service distribution networks. Identify the most profitable customers in case of capacity shortages.
- Develop supply chain strategies to complement and execute overall corporate strategy such as expansion into new markets, new products, merger and acquisitions, and divestitures.
- Reveal operational improvements after mergers and acquisitions: Consolidate supply chain assets to improve efficiency and return on investment (ROI).
- Develop contingency plans: Mitigate the business risk by analyzing various worst-case scenarios. Understand the cost and service impact of unexpected but potential events.
- Identify least-cost production sourcing decisions: Optimize the decision making process on product sourcing strategies taking into account the capacity limitations, resource availabilities, and overall supply chain cost. Develop quarterly, monthly, and weekly production and sourcing plans.
- Design tax-efficient supply chains: Understand the efficient and feasible ways to take the advantage of low tax regions to increase profitability. Maximize after-tax profit by balancing the costs of operating in different countries and trade zones.
- Evaluate what-if scenarios: Understand the cost and service impact of changes in transportation costs, changes in manufacturing costs, changes to currency exchange rates or taxes, adding or removing shifts, or changing the source of products.
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE V7.2 includes new features:
- State-of-the-art optimization technologies
- Ability to create and analyze multiple optimization objectives simultaneously
- Improved multi-period modeling capabilities
- Stochastic inventory planning capabilities
- Practical center of gravity modeling
- Improved navigation, maps, visualization, and reports
- Incorporated ribbon control and tab navigation
- Lane set visualization
- Improved landed cost reports
- More advanced transportation modeling with improved carrier blending and multi-capacitated trucks
- Improved mapping and scenario open/close performance
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| Key prerequisites |
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This product runs on selected levels of Microsoft™ Windows™, Microsoft Windows Servers, and Microsoft SQL databases.
For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.
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| Planned availability date |
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December 9, 2011: Electronic availability
January 13, 2012: Media availability
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| Description |
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IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE, a software for supply chain network optimization and supply chain design, an off-the-shelf decision support solution for ongoing strategic planning. This solution helps determine optimal supply chain configurations by considering variables such as manufacturing costs and capabilities, transportation modes and costs, warehousing costs and capacities, taxes, duties and service constraints. This product handles some of the most complex networks and is capable of designing multitier global supply chains.
IBM LogicNet Plus XE facilitates quick analysis of the tradeoffs between production, warehousing, transportation costs, carbon footprint, and service requirements and additionally the calculation of the optimal network configuration for different cost and service objectives. Solutions can be viewed, compared and easily exported to tables and graphs for presentations and further analysis.
Problem-oriented features
- Evaluate the network and determine where and when new facilities are needed
- Perform end-to-end supply chain optimization, referred to as global optimization
- Consider many scenarios and frequently run what-ifs scenarios
Because the frequency of strategic decision making on matters such as facility locations, inventory positioning and production sourcing is relatively low (for example, quarterly, or annually), it is important to analyze many different scenarios in order to develop robust strategies and understand the trade-offs between different decisions.
Take uncertainties and risk into account. Uncertainties are inherent in planning on many levels. This not only includes uncertainty in demand, but also uncertainties in supply, as well as processing and transportation time. The ability to incorporate uncertainty into the supply chain model allows decision makers to determine the appropriate inventory levels at different locations for different products, thus satisfying service level targets while minimizing system-wide cost.
Help to reduce system-wide supply chain costs: the majority of a supply chains lifecycle cost is locked in the phase when strategic decisions determine the nature and design of the network such as determining the structure of the distribution network -- decisions on where to produce, and where to locate facilities.
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LogicNet Plus XE V7. 2 is part of a suite of on-premise Supply Chain Optimization solutions that complements IBM offerings such as ILOG Inventory and Product Flow Analyst, ILOG Transportation Analyst, IBM Sterling TMS, IBM Sterling SCV, Cognos®, and IBM Sterling WMS within the Smarter Commerce portfolio, specifically in the Buy and Sell customer agendas:
- Buy: Smarter Commerce optimizes supplier and partner interactions based on changes in shopping and buying behavior across the supply chain and reconsiders partner roles and relationships to generate new and differentiating customer value. The IBM integrated portfolio of solutions includes Consulting and Services, Software, Advanced Analytics and Infrastructure for the following core business processes: Trading Partner Management; Supplier Management; Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Visibility and Optimization; Logistics Management; Inventory Management, Procurement Transformation, Supply Chain and Procurement and Business Process Outsourcing.
- Sell: Smarter Commerce enables customer and partner engagements so customers and partners can shop, exchange information, and collaborate across all touch points, spanning human, digital, social, and mobile modes of access that are optimized according to their preferences. The IBM integrated portfolio of solutions includes Consulting and Services, Software, and Advanced Analytics and Infrastructure for the following core business processes: Channel Transformation, business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) Cross-channel Commerce, Distributed Order Orchestration, Fulfillment, Logistics, Supply Chain Optimization, Mobile Commerce, Retail Store, and Multi-channel and Contact Center Outsourcing.
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| Program number |
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Program number VRM Program name 5725-A02 7.2.0 IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE
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| Education support |
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IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training website
Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments.
There is a three-day, instructor-led course designed to help business analysts use IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE to optimize their supply chain network design and high level production planning processes. Hands-on labs provide practice with manual model building, data imports, and solution reporting.
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE facilitates quick analysis of the trade-offs between production, warehousing, transportation costs, carbon footprint, and service requirements, as well as the calculation of the optimal network configuration for various cost and service objectives.
- Part number WB350
For more information, visit IBM Learning Services
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Minimum system requirements
- 1.5 GHz processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 5 GB free hard drive space
Recommended system configuration. These requirements are highly dependent upon the size of planning models used:
- Dual or Quad Core processor - Multiple CPUs allow concurrent optimization runs
- 4 GB RAM
- 100 GB free hard drive space
- Microsoft Excel 2000 or higher for Edit in Excel functionality
Software requirements
Operating systems
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Professional
- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- 64-bit of all operating systems supported
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Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE Supply Chain LogicNet Plus
Management
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - Supply Chain LogicNet Plus
Limited Use Management
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE 5725-A02 Per User Value
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IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - Limited 5725-A02 Per Authorized
Use User
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IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE
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IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE UVU Annual SW S&S Rnwl E08PQLL
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE UVU Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo D0CULLL
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE UVU SW S&S Reinstate 12 Mo D0CUMLL
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - Limited Use IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - Ltd Use AU Annual SW S&S E08PRLL Rnwl IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - Ltd Use AU Lic + SW S&S 12 D0CUNLL Mo IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - Ltd Use AU SW S&S Reinstate D0CUPLL 12 Mo
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Program name/description Part
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IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE V7.2.0
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE V7.2 Windows English Media B800VEN
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Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE V7.2.0
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offerings description number
IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE B800VEN
User Value Unit V7.2 Windows English Media
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ILOG LogicNet Plus XE - IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE B800VEN
Limited Use Authorized V7.2 Windows English Media
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