Discovering Supply Chain Links with Augmented Intelligence

Abstract

One of the key components in analyzing the risk of a company is understanding a company's supply chain. Supply chains are constantly disrupted, whether by tariffs, pandemics, severe weather, etc. In this paper, we tackle the problem of predicting previously unknown suppliers and customers of companies using graph neural networks (GNNs) and show strong performance in finding previously unknown connections by combining the predictions of our model and the domain expertise of supply chain analysts.

Reconstructing supply networks

“…Finally, GNNs are also used by [31]. The authors train a graph attention network on a large dataset containing textual and financial information on 250 k firms.…”