Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis

With the increasing trend of global outsourcing, companies are now facing ever more complexsupply chains. When a company operates over a large geographical area, the likelihood of disruptions ispotentially increased due to such unforeseen events as natural disasters, union strikes or social unrest....

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Main Authors: ONG, Jimmy, WANG, Zhaoxia, GOH, Rick Siow Mong, YIN, Xiao Feng, XIN, Xin, FU, Xiuju
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-82562022-09-12T10:15:35Z Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis ONG, Jimmy WANG, Zhaoxia GOH, Rick Siow Mong YIN, Xiao Feng XIN, Xin FU, Xiuju With the increasing trend of global outsourcing, companies are now facing ever more complexsupply chains. When a company operates over a large geographical area, the likelihood of disruptions ispotentially increased due to such unforeseen events as natural disasters, union strikes or social unrest. Inthis paper, we consider natural disasters as a form of risks in supply chains and propose to aid itsmanagement by analyzing Web data collected in real-time. Using Twitter "tweets" as our primary source ofWeb data, a real-time data crawler is developed to collect and analyze tweets that are identified as relevant tonatural disasters. In addition, a visualization platform customizable to users’ requirements is implemented aspart of the decision making dashboard for supply chain risk management. The applicability of such a systemand its effectiveness for making informed decisions in risk mitigations are then discussed via a case study. 2015-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7253 info:doi/10.17706/ijcce.2015.v4.391 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8256/viewcontent/2015_Understanding_Natural_Disasters_as_Risks_in_Supply_Chain_Management_through_Web_Data_Analysis.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Natural disaster earthquake supply chain risk management web data real-time analysis visualization. Information Security
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
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country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
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language English
topic Natural disaster
earthquake
supply chain risk management
web data
real-time analysis
visualization.
Information Security
spellingShingle Natural disaster
earthquake
supply chain risk management
web data
real-time analysis
visualization.
Information Security
ONG, Jimmy
WANG, Zhaoxia
GOH, Rick Siow Mong
YIN, Xiao Feng
XIN, Xin
FU, Xiuju
Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
description With the increasing trend of global outsourcing, companies are now facing ever more complexsupply chains. When a company operates over a large geographical area, the likelihood of disruptions ispotentially increased due to such unforeseen events as natural disasters, union strikes or social unrest. Inthis paper, we consider natural disasters as a form of risks in supply chains and propose to aid itsmanagement by analyzing Web data collected in real-time. Using Twitter "tweets" as our primary source ofWeb data, a real-time data crawler is developed to collect and analyze tweets that are identified as relevant tonatural disasters. In addition, a visualization platform customizable to users’ requirements is implemented aspart of the decision making dashboard for supply chain risk management. The applicability of such a systemand its effectiveness for making informed decisions in risk mitigations are then discussed via a case study.
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author ONG, Jimmy
WANG, Zhaoxia
GOH, Rick Siow Mong
YIN, Xiao Feng
XIN, Xin
FU, Xiuju
author_facet ONG, Jimmy
WANG, Zhaoxia
GOH, Rick Siow Mong
YIN, Xiao Feng
XIN, Xin
FU, Xiuju
author_sort ONG, Jimmy
title Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
title_short Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
title_full Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
title_fullStr Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
title_full_unstemmed Understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
title_sort understanding natural disasters as risks in supply chain management through web data analysis
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2015
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7253
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8256/viewcontent/2015_Understanding_Natural_Disasters_as_Risks_in_Supply_Chain_Management_through_Web_Data_Analysis.pdf
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