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How can an Expert System (ES) or a Decision Support System (DSS) help in decision-making in supply chain?

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How can an Expert System (ES) or a Decision Support System (DSS) help in decision-making in supply chain?

A Decision Support System is an application that analyzes data and presents it in such a manner that it can be used to help make decisions. For example, you sell widgets and you want to know what will happen to revenues if you sell 200 more widgets and/or the price of manufacturing widgets goes up.

An Expert System uses Artificial Intelligence and rule based programming to simulate the decision making ability of a human expert. An example of an ...

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