Enhancing supply chain visibility with generative AI: an exploratory case study on relationship prediction in knowledge graphs

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Názov: Enhancing supply chain visibility with generative AI: an exploratory case study on relationship prediction in knowledge graphs
Autori: Ge Zheng, Alexandra Brintrup
Prispievatelia: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Zdroj: International Journal of Production Research. :1-23
Publication Status: Preprint
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Informa UK Limited, 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Predmety: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), supply chain visibility, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, pretrained language models (pretrained LMs), Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science, knowledge graph (KG), link prediction
Popis: A key stumbling block in effective supply chain risk management for companies and policymakers is a lack of visibility on interdependent supply network relationships. Relationship prediction, also called link prediction is an emergent area of supply chain surveillance research that aims to increase the visibility of supply chains using data-driven techniques. Existing methods have been successful for predicting relationships but struggle to extract the context in which these relationships are embedded - such as the products being supplied or locations they are supplied from. Lack of context prevents practitioners from distinguishing transactional relations from established supply chain relations, hindering accurate estimations of risk. In this work, we develop a new Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) enhanced machine learning framework that leverages pre-trained language models as embedding models combined with machine learning models to predict supply chain relationships within knowledge graphs. By integrating Generative AI techniques, our approach captures the nuanced semantic relationships between entities, thereby improving supply chain visibility and facilitating more precise risk management. Using data from a real case study, we show that GenAI-enhanced link prediction surpasses all benchmarks, and demonstrate how GenAI models can be explored and effectively used in supply chain risk management.
18 pages, 5 figures
Druh dokumentu: Article
Popis súboru: application/pdf
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 1366-588X
0020-7543
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2025.2543964
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03390
Prístupová URL adresa: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03390
Rights: CC BY
arXiv Non-Exclusive Distribution
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....84bb5ee30e8c5aaea3397c815318e7e9
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:A key stumbling block in effective supply chain risk management for companies and policymakers is a lack of visibility on interdependent supply network relationships. Relationship prediction, also called link prediction is an emergent area of supply chain surveillance research that aims to increase the visibility of supply chains using data-driven techniques. Existing methods have been successful for predicting relationships but struggle to extract the context in which these relationships are embedded - such as the products being supplied or locations they are supplied from. Lack of context prevents practitioners from distinguishing transactional relations from established supply chain relations, hindering accurate estimations of risk. In this work, we develop a new Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) enhanced machine learning framework that leverages pre-trained language models as embedding models combined with machine learning models to predict supply chain relationships within knowledge graphs. By integrating Generative AI techniques, our approach captures the nuanced semantic relationships between entities, thereby improving supply chain visibility and facilitating more precise risk management. Using data from a real case study, we show that GenAI-enhanced link prediction surpasses all benchmarks, and demonstrate how GenAI models can be explored and effectively used in supply chain risk management.<br />18 pages, 5 figures
ISSN:1366588X
00207543
DOI:10.1080/00207543.2025.2543964