Finally! I got this working again.
There's a working updated version here
https://github.com/lingo/advanced-logistics-system
0.6.2 Initial upgrade for factorio version 0.17+ - lingo
If it doesn't work, check the keyboard controls for the hotkey of this mod. It's N by default. If it still doesn't work check if you still need to research Advanced Logistic Systems in the tech tree. That's what did the trick for me.