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Record W316784273

The Costs of Supply Chain: Congestion, Disruption and Uncertainty

2007· article· en· W316784273 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Colledge

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMaritime Ports and Logistics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSupply chainBusinessIndustrial organizationProduction (economics)Service (business)Risk analysis (engineering)EconomicsMarketingMicroeconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Cargo transportation is no longer a narrow concern of those within the industry. Supply chain issues are being more widely debated. However, the real economic costs and risks of supply chain congestion in the global economy are not being tallied and are therefore understated as key inputs for policy makers. A greater awareness and understanding of the costs of supply chain congestion, disruption and uncertainty is needed by governments and the private sector to justify urgently needed transportation infrastructure investments, as well as the implementation of new operating practices that expand system capacity in a timely manner. This paper adopts a case study approach to examine the “congestion tax” on logistics. Many years have been spent transforming logistics from a “push” to a “pull” system to reduce inventories, drive down logistics costs and improve customer service. Modern logistics now critically depends on tight distribution schedules and reliable, consistent transportation performance. Yet supply chain bottlenecks increase inventories, cause production delays and add to the costs of imports/exports. This paper explores these impacts from the perspective of shippers and the Canadian economy and identifies some of the policy implications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.045
Threshold uncertainty score0.089

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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