In Brief

The Challenge

From the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions became the biggest risk to the continuity and the stability of the global economy. Assessing the vulnerability of supply chains and developing the best mitigation plans for high impact disruptions to enhance supply chain resilience is crucial to the survival of public and private organisations. 

The Solution

This project will develop a digital framework for diagnosing the vulnerability of multi-tier supply chain networks for private and public bodies. The framework will be based on a supply chain digital twin that will be formed with 

  • industrial internet of things technology for accessing field data, 
  • machine learning models for disruption prediction,  
  • simulation methods for disruption scenario analysis and  
  • optimization methods for minimizing the impact of disruption.  

We will also develop a deep-learning based surrogate model as a proxy to the digital supply chain twin so that it can be employed without needing advanced software, hardware infrastructure and expertise. 

The Team

  • Team Lead: Dr Cemalettin Ozturk, Munster Technological University  
  • Team Co-Lead: Prof Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork 

Societal Impact Champion

  • Dr Deepak Mehta, Apple Operations Europe Limited