METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING SHIPMENTS IN A SUPPLY AND/OR LOGISTICS CHAIN

摘要

A system and method for tracking shipments in a supply chain is provided. The method comprises: storing, in a computer-accessible memory, transport graph data structures that describe transport objects and relationships between transport objects in a supply chain, the transport graph data structures comprising nodes connected by branches, each node corresponding to a transport object of the transport objects in the supply chain and each branch associated with a type of relationship between two transport objects corresponding to two nodes connected by a respective branch; using a first computer, detecting, in a supply chain, a delay in shipment on a route segment transport object from an origin transport object to a destination transport object; using the first computer, identifying, from the transport graph data structures, nodes corresponding to the destination transport object, and the route segment transport object corresponding to the delay in shipment; using the first computer, identifying, from the transport graph data structures, an alternate transport object node positioned between nodes corresponding to a current or anticipated location of the shipment and the destination transport object; providing, via a user interface presented on a display screen of the first computer, a description of the delay and the alternate transport object node.