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Product backorder prediction using deep neural network on imbalanced data

Md Shajalal, Petr Hajek, Abedin Abedin

International Journal of Production Research, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 302 - 319

Swansea University Author: Abedin Abedin

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Taking backorders on products is a common scenario in inventory and supply chain management systems. The ability to predict the likelihood of backorders can surely minimise a company's losses. Because the number of backorders is much lower than the number of orders that ship on time, applying a...

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Published in: International Journal of Production Research
ISSN: 0020-7543 1366-588X
Published: Informa UK Limited 2023
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64236
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Abstract: Taking backorders on products is a common scenario in inventory and supply chain management systems. The ability to predict the likelihood of backorders can surely minimise a company's losses. Because the number of backorders is much lower than the number of orders that ship on time, applying a predictive model for this domain is a challenging task. This paper proposes a model that uses a deep neural network to predict backorders; it handles the data imbalance between backorders and filled orders with efficient techniques. To make the dataset balanced, we employ different techniques that include minority class weight boosting, randomised oversampling, SMOTE oversampling, and a combination of oversampling and undersampling. The balanced training data are used in our proposed, fully connected deep neural networks model to train the predictive model. The predictive model learns the likelihood of product backorders by using the training samples. We conduct experiments on a large benchmark dataset to test the performance of our proposed deep neural network–based model. The experimental results achieve a new state-of-the-art performance and outperform some prominent classification models in terms of standard evaluation metrics and expected profit measure.
Keywords: Product backorder, deep neural network, synthetic oversampling, imbalanced data, prediction
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 1
Start Page: 302
End Page: 319