Release Date: 17 February 2026
New Shipments Import Capability: The new Shipments Import functionality allows users to ingest shipment data from an Excel workbook to automatically generate key model elements, including Nodes, Lanes, Demand, Sources and Activities.
User Interface & Experience: New Dialog Screen: A new "Import Shipments" dialog screen has been introduced, mirroring the existing Excel import process for models or scenarios.
Model Naming: Users can specify a model name during import. If left blank, it defaults to SHIPMENTS_MMDDYYYY. Duplicate names are automatically handled with a versioning suffix.
Calibration Option: The UI includes a "CALIBRATE" check box to perform further reference data calibration using shipment costs.
Import Statistics: Upon completion, the process provides model/scenario statistics and KPIs regarding errors and model elements.
Data Extraction & Validation
File Requirements: The import requires an .xlsx file containing a single sheet named "Shipments".
Required Columns: The sheet must include columns for Origin/Destination names and postal codes, Shipment Weight, and Shipment Cost. The example dataset and the data requirements are available in Tactician’s Corner Downloads:
Flexible Formatting: Data is successfully imported regardless of column order. Origin and Destination names can have a mixture of upper and lower keys.
Error Handling: Rows are excluded if they contain missing names/postal codes, invalid country codes (must be two characters), or non-positive decimal values for weight and cost.
Updated Solver Interface: The solver interface has been redesigned to provide a more intuitive, wizard-style flow and updated styling to align with modern design standards.
User Interface Enhancements:
Wizard Navigation: Current solver windows have transitioned from a single-view layout to a multi-step "wizard" flow, guiding users through the input process.
Updated Styling: Solver views now feature updated styling to closely match the Logility Design System.
Single-View Exception: The "Solve for..." view remains a single-view interface but has been updated with the new styling.
Wizard Steps & Inputs
Step 1: Core Parameters: Provides a required "Using" dropdown to select between existing facilities, greenfield list facilities, or AI Greenfield Facilities.
Step 2: Advanced Configuration: This step dynamically varies based on the "Using" selection from Step 1.
Final Step: Confirmation: A summary screen displays all entered information for user confirmation before initiating the solve.
Newly Enhanced AI Greenfield Candidate Generation: This release introduces a more robust, iterative workflow for generating greenfield facility candidates using AI. The update provides users with granular control over candidate selection, list merging, and logical validation before running the solver.
Iterative List Building & Merging
Dynamic Prompting: Users can enter specific natural language prompts (e.g., “Generate facilities for Northeast region with high demand potential”) to trigger AI candidate generation.
Append Functionality: The system now supports iterative building by allowing users to generate a new list and append it to previously selected candidates, enabling the creation of complex, multi-region scenarios.
Visibility & Manual Selection Control
Candidate Preview: Before finalizing the list, the system displays a comprehensive preview of all AI-generated candidates.
Include/Exclude Logic: Users have manual control to toggle specific facilities on or off, ensuring the final list aligns with specific business knowledge or constraints.
Combined List View: Once the iterative generation is complete, users can view the full combined list in a single, unified view for final verification.
Logical Enforcement & Validation
Candidate Limit Enforcement: Users specify a target number of candidates (e.g., 50). The system monitors the list size in real-time. If the combined list exceeds the user-defined candidate limit, the system provides an immediate warning to ensure the solver remains within optimized performance bounds.
Flexible Navigation
Back: Allows users to return to the previous step without losing progress.
Cancel: Returns the user to the Best X / Next X start screen to adjust the overall strategy.
Release Date: 13 January 2026
Import/Export Menus re-organized: We’ve reorganized the Import/Export menus to make navigation simpler and more intuitive!
Cleaner grouping: Related options are now grouped together with clear separators for easier access.
Release Date: 2 December 2025
New “Customer Flow” Report: A new report has been added that enables users to more easily examine the way their customers are satisfied, showing end-to-end flow. The report is an excel file that presents the customer service diagram in a tabular form. It lists all the pathways from customers to their sources together with lead time, cost, distance, transportation mode details for each leg of the path, as well as summary information for lead time, cost-to-serve, and total distance for the pathway.
Release Date: 10 November 2025
Enhancement for “Focusing” to Model Elements: To improve user interaction and navigation, we've introduced a powerful new Focusing capability. This feature allows you to seamlessly link back to the map from customers, lanes, and facilities by clicking on icons within the scoreboard or inspector.
When an icon representing a customer, facility, or lane is clicked:
This functionality is available in both individual scenario views and the scenario comparison view, making it easier than ever to explore and analyze model entities in context.
Improved “Highlighting” of Selected Nodes: We introduced a change in map controls such that when there are one or more items in the selected nodes list, the lanes that have not been selected now have a lower opacity (appear more transparent); This enhancement makes it easier to distinguish between selected and unselected elements without losing context.
You will find that:
Filtering and Sorting on Inspector Data Tables: New text fields have been added in the customer, facility, and lane inspectors that allow you to filter the contents of various tables, such as customer demands, facility supply, lane activities, and others. The filter searches all visible values in the corresponding table. Additionally, when new Demands, Activities, or Constraints are added, a small "NEW" label appears to the left of the newly added row.
Release Date: 14 September 2025
Model Parameters: Model Parameters configuration dialog now allows users to set Model Objective in the overview section as well as enable/disable Soft Demand Constraints (when performing any type of solve operation). In case some customer demand is not profitable to fulfill; users can opt out of meeting the demand by choosing this option.
Model Manager: We introduced an icon to depict the model objectives, whether it is cost or profit.
When looking at the list of scenarios, we will see that when we compare to baseline, a higher profit shows up in green, a loss (negative profit) will shown be in red. An icon with the current Model Objective will also appear to the right of the Model name listed at the top of the Scenario List.
Scoreboard & Scenario Metrics: Once “Profit” is chosen as model objective, we will also see consistent titles throughout the scoreboard and scenario metrics graphs. For instance, instead of “Network Cost”, “Network Profit” will appear as the title. Similarly, we will see “Total Profit” instead of “Total Cost” in the scenario metrics graphs.
Release Date: 23 June 2025
Updated Scenario Comparison Indicator at the Comparison Tab: To bring more clarity to scenario comparison directions between two chosen scenarios, we updated the current indicators: {A} to {B} where {A} is highlighted being the scenario that is being compared to B. By clicking in the invisible rectangle from the upper left of the "B" scenario (in this pic) to the lower right of the "A", you can swap the scenarios back and forth. As shown below, the comparison tab will initially default as {B} to A.
Updated Filtering and Visualization of Changes b/w Scenarios: Scenario comparison legend is updated. The updated legend now has items for Added, Increased, No Change, Decreased, and Dropped. The legend selection still toggles hiding/showing the model elements for each category. One of the new categories, "Added" lanes now has a "dashed" line style. No change for Added nodes. "Dropped" nodes now appear partially transparent. Clicking on the "Increased" and "Decreased" items in the legend used to also hide the nodes/lanes that have been newly added or dropped: that behavior is no longer valid with the new filtering additions.
Release Date: 27 April 2025
Scenario Comparison Report: Logility is improving the process of understanding the opportunities coming out of the optimization processes. A shortcut for generating a contextualized summary report can now be found helping users compare scenarios for key outcomes on cost and flow.
Release Date: 14 January 2025
Scenario Comparison Map: Modelers! You are going to really like this. Scenario comparison will be a focus in our ongoing roadmap and this begins with the overlay mode. You will now have the unique capability to select two scenarios and alternatively look at the scenarios and also overlay them to focus on differences.
Try this:
Open a model you are currently working on and duplicate a scenario—I will explain later why scenarios need to be compared to ones that were duplicated from the same original.
You should see a drop down of your available scenarios.
Clicking on each scenario tab will flip flop between the scenarios and also see key metrics in the center tab. Currently these show differences in service and cost. The direction of change is represented by the arrow in the center tab. An arrow from A to B means “how did flow in A change relative to B”. In this example, A has a higher cost than B, the scenario to which it is being compared.
Now the fun begins. If you look closely at the map, it will have highlights for changes.
NOTE: Scenarios can be compared if they have been copied from one another. This allows the system to know what nodes are the same from one scenario to the next. This can also be achieved in future scenarios by uploading nodes that are the exact same name, type, lat-long, and country code. There will be legacy models where uploaded or independently created scenarios are not comparable.
Gen AI Scenario Comparison Analysis: Here is another great improvement that you will like. When you enter scenario overlay mode, Logility’s Generative AI engine is engaged to analyze the changes. This is an evolving capability as we explore ways to better use Generative AI.
Try this:
Follow the same instructions as above.
This comparison is sensitive to the direction of the arrow. Also, AI has a certain amount of artistic license. You might see statements that are wrong or odd.
CALL FOR FEEDBACK: Logility sees both the comparison of scenarios in one map and use of Generative AI as areas to focus our development efforts. Please provide your thoughts and feedback by entering a ticket in the user portal.
Release Date: 3 November 2024
***PLEASE READ***
***THIS RELEASE WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU INTERACT WITH BASELINE SCENARIOS***
Updated Scenario Selector: The way you interact with scenarios has been improved in this release. The model and scenario metrics have replaced the scenario name previously displayed in the upper left corner. The updated scenario selector now includes details about the solver options utilized to generate specific results, and you can now rename scenarios inline in the selector.
When you select a scenario, its title and calculation result title will be displayed in a new scoreboard pull tab.
Baseline Elevation and Locking – In preparation for future changes that will support scenario comparison and A.I. analysis, baseline scenarios will have a new behavior. When a modeler designates a scenario as a "Baseline" it will be locked from editing, data will be immutable and it will be raised to the top of the scenario list, with a baseline title.
Here is a scenario that has been set to the baseline:
Once a baseline is selected, scenario scoreboard would show the baseline delta cost. This information is also available next to each scenario at the scenario list, together with total flow, network cost, from top to bottom.
And if you wish to demote a scenario from baseline and be able to edit it, just flip the baseline icon.
Release Date: 8 September 2024
Scenario Reordering: If you thought searching the model library was exciting. Try this:
You can do this to better tell your story. The selector order will also be repeated on the scoreboard and other reports.
Release Date: 25 August 2024
Enhanced Model Management: The model library (scenario selector>>my models) has a new look. When users enter the model library, the open button will be clearer and will be able to open one of any models, with fewer clicks.
Sharing for Organizations: The button for sharing will expand. For all users, they can share (duplicate) files to another user as well as generate a private link for view only models. For organizations that have been set up, there are enhanced sharing features. Modelers can collaborate with colleagues by assigning a model as:
When options 1, 2, or 3 are set for a user ID, that user will be able to see the model appear in their model library with specific access levels.
NOTE OF WARNING: Granting another model edit and full access will allow them to make material changes to the model you are working on.
Concurrent Use and Locking: When multiple users are in the same model, the scenario that each is working on is locked. This lock is indicated by a lock icon in the scenario selector. Hovering over the lock icon will show who has edit rights over the locked scenario.
Users opening the same scenario while the lock is acquired will see a watermark showing the user name holding the lock. The passive lock is released when user opens a different scenario. When a user opens a scenario that already has a passive lock, they are automatically placed in a "read only" state.
Model Settings and scenario locks will be released when:
Release Date: 23 June 2024
Geographic Smart Aggregation: Logility NDO allows users to automatically aggregate customer nodes based on freight logic. Upon uploading a scenario, users are asked if they want to aggregate by rate zone or to have no aggregation at all. A rate zone is Logility’s geographic designation for a region that has similar freight characteristics. If you chose to aggregate by rate zone, all customers that have postal codes within each zone, will be summed together and represented as one node. This makes all solves run faster and keeps the network integrity by being “smart” about how nodes are combined. Choosing no aggregation will load up each customer node as it is defined in the node table.
Release Date: 17 March 2024
Dynamic Inventory Modeling: Logility Network Optimization can now simultaneously solve to the best network and calculate inventory levels. This new feature will allow modelers to choose to calculate inventory and input model and product level parameters to define inputs to safety stock, cycle stock, and transportation stock quantities. The solver function will use this to optimize a scenario including inventory costs, space constraints, and distribution complexity.
Get started by going to configuration>>inventory and review the input parameters.
When inventory is activated on this page, a set of product parameters will become enabled also.
When these parameters are activated, an inventory quantity will be generated at each service facility and this in turn can be used to determine capacity limits and inventory holding costs.
This feature has a complex interaction by which is calculates safety stock, cycle stock, and transportation stock. This playbook explains in greater detail how to use this feature: Playbook: Dynamic Inventory Modeling
Release Date: 18 February 2024
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Release Date: 3 July 2023
New URL: ndo.mylogility.com
End of Life for Old URL: TBD
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