Visual Analytics Dashboard for Exogenous Risk Management and Logistical and Strategic Planning of Supply Chains for Smart Factories

Abstract

In this paper, which focuses on the exogenous risks, a prototype is developed, which presents the users a world map with the country-specific risk factors. These risk factors, which have a massive impact on the supply chain of a company, are based on live data sources from the Internet, in order to provide up-to-date risk assessments. The prototype allows to place and link the individual company sites or suppliers in the world map. The resulting supply chains can be analyzed based on the exogenous risk factors such as weather and natural catastrophes, as well as war situations and terrorist warnings. Through a detail view, as well as through the comparability of several supply chains, based on an aggregation of the risks, the prototype provides users with the vulnerability of the supply chain as a measure of the risk exposure of the company.