Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael McNab Bassani

Ranveer Chandra

Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan

Peeyush Kumar

Vishal Jain

Lillian Jane Ratliff

Upinder Kaur

Jeremy Randall Reynolds

Hui Qing Li

A computing system including a processor configured to receive training data including, for each of a plurality of training timesteps, training forecast states associated with respective training-phase agents included in a training supply chain graph. The processor may train a reinforcement learning simulation of the training supply chain graph using the training data via policy gradient reinforcement learning. At each training timestep, the training forecast states may be shared between the training-phase agents during training. The processor may receive runtime forecast states associated with respective runtime agents included in a runtime supply chain graph. For a runtime agent, at the trained reinforcement learning simulation, the processor may generate a respective runtime action output associated with a corresponding runtime forecast state of the runtime agent based at least in part on the runtime forecast states. The processor may output the runtime action output.

Reinforcement learning simulation of supply chain graph

A traceability system for a bulk commodity supply chain is provided. The system includes a tracking device, a location determination subsystem, and at least one computing device having at least one processor. The location determination subsystem is configured to determine positional information of the tracking device while placed in a bulk commodity traveling along the bulk commodity supply chain. The processor receives the positional information from the location subsystem, extracts positional values from the positional information, and processes the positional values to identify motion primitives. A modeling tool is applied to the identified motion primitives to produce a positional path of the tracking device, which is output, for example, via a user interface. The positional path represents travel of the bulk commodity along the supply chain.

Traceability system for bulk commodity supply chain

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