About Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence

Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence provides an environment for managing business metrics by monitoring, analyzing, and reporting metrics. To provide access to Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence, you need to add a business intelligence application and a business intelligence role to each user as appropriate to access different functionality. Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence is based on Oracle Analytics Server (OAS).

Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence is available as a subject area under Transportation Intelligence > Ad Hoc Query > Analysis > Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence.

Loading Data

To load and unload scenario data to Logistics Network Modeling, use the modeling scenario actions of Send Data to Analytics and Unload Data from Analytics.

Dashboard

A Dashboard is a collection of performance metrics reflecting common strategic goals. The metrics are displayed as various key performance indicators formatted as charts, graphs, tables, cross-tabs, and status indicators. There are multiple tabs organizing the metrics. Dashboard comes pre-defined with standard metrics. If you have access to Logistics Network Modeling and you have the Logistics Network Modeling Dashboard set as a default dashboard in user preferences, this page can be accessed via Transportation Intelligence > Dashboard.

Note: A user can only have one default dashboard set at a time. As a result, a single user cannot have both an Transportation Intelligence (TI) default dashboard and a Logistics Network Modeling default dashboard. To view both the TI and Logistics Network Modeling dashboards, create one user with access to LNM and set their dashboard preference to point to the LNM dashboard. Then, create a second user with access to TI and set their dashboard preference to point to the TI dashboard.

Ad Hoc Query

This component allows creation of reports on the fly. For details on Ad Hoc Queries, click the OAS help icon. This page is accessed via Transportation Intelligence > Ad Hoc Query. Then under Analysis and Interactive Reporting select Analysis > Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence. You should have an OAS license to work in this page.

Catalog

Any queries that you have created and saved appear under Catalog > My Folders and are only be available to you.

Any queries that the TI administrator created and saved appear under Catalog > Shared Folders. Any TI user can access these queries.

Important! All user-defined reports and dashboards must be created inside the shared/Custom folder or a sub-folder. Defining reports and dashboards inside the shared/Custom folder will ensure your user-defined reports and dashboards are retained during upgrades. All out-of-the-box folders are read-only so you cannot save content in folders other than shared/Custom. If you try to save content outside of shared/Custom, you will see an error which may be one of the following: "Access denied for user to path..." or "Can't save in root folder.".