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. 2021 Feb 3:1–26. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10479-021-03956-x

Table 1.

Literature review of information processing capabilities of Artificial Intelligence for supply chain

IPC levels AI-driven IPC for supply chain AI techniques References
Level 1: exploiting

Process much more massive amounts of information and knowledge

Support supply chain problems detection

Overcome cognitive information processing constraints

Machine learning and big data Priore et al. (2019), Cavalcante et al. (2019), Min et al. (2019), Choi et al. (2018)
Robust optimization Baryannis et al. (2019), Choi et al. (2018)
fuzzy logic and programming Leung et al. (2019), Baryannis et al. (2019)
Stochastic programming Sabet et al. (2020), Baryannis et al. (2019)
Knowledge, representation Reasoning Baryannis et al. (2019)
Level 2: expanding

Generate new ideas within the supply chain innovation process

Support supply chain problems analysis

Strengthen the interaction between human and machine

Network-based algorithms Elhoone et al. (2020), Hosseini and Ivanov (2020), Baryannis et al. (2019), Bottani et al. (2019)
Rough set theory Mehdizadeh (2020), Li et al. (2018), Shidpour et al. (2016)
Tree-based clustering Zanjani et al. (2016), Thomassey (2010)
Level 3: exploring

Explore new ways of identifying problems

Explore new innovative solutions

Prototype and evaluate the effectiveness of the innovation

Agent-based systems Muravev et al. (2020), Baryannis et al. (2019), Giannakis and Louis (2016)
Model Predictive Control Belhadi et al. (2019), Nawaz et al. (2019), Zhang et al. (2019)
Robotic Process Automation Schniederjans et al. (2020)
Computer vision Grover et al. (2020), Dhamija and Bag (2020)