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GIS Map Controls

The GIS Map contains two sets of controls to work with. Here belong:

  1. Toolbar controls — [not available in experiment results] use them to add facilities to your supply chain model.
  2. Filter options — use them to filter the elements that are shown on the GIS Map, show/hide the names of the facilities and the paths between the facilities.

Toolbar controls

Button Command Description
Panning Mode Turns on the Panning mode, which allows you to pan and zoom the map.
Create Customer Turns on the editing mode, which allows you to add customers to the supply chain model.

To add a customer, click in the required location on the map. A customer icon will appear on the map and a new entry will be added to the Customers table.

Create Warehouse Turns on the editing mode, which allows you to add warehouses (DCs) to the supply chain model.

To add a warehouse, click in the required location on the map. A warehouse icon will appear on the map and a new entry of the DC type will be added to the DCs and Factories table.

Create Factory Turns on the editing mode, which allows you to add factories to the supply chain model.

To add a factory, click in the required location on the map. A factory icon will appear on the map and a new entry of the Factory type will be added to the DCs and Factories table.

Create Supplier Turns on the editing mode, which allows you to add suppliers to the supply chain model.

To add a supplier, click in the required location on the map. A supplier icon will appear on the map and a new entry will be added to the Suppliers table.

Filters

Button Command Description
Show / Hide filters Opens filter options, allowing you to filter elements and connections shown on the map and in the Structure view. The filter options comprise the set of controls triggering visibility of the elements on the map (Customers, Sites, Suppliers, Paths, Labels).
Show / Hide Connections Triggers the visibility of connections between the elements of the map, which represent Sourcing policies defined for the supply chain facilities.
Structure Switches the map to the structure view and vice versa. the structure view shows logic structure of the scenario.
Expand map Toggles the map view, which offers more space on the map to observe the required result by hiding the Input data and experiments, and the Dashboard sections.
Minimize map Minimizes map to its default size.
Customer Triggers the visibility of all the customer icons on the map.
Site Triggers the visibility of all the site icons on the map.
Supplier Triggers the visibility of all the supplier icons on the map.
Labels Triggers the visibility of the supply chain facilities' labels on the map.
A label of the facility is a value of the Name column in the corresponding table.
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