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Empowering Supply Chain Analytics during the Post-Pandemic Recovery using Power BI

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Journal of Management Science and Business Intelligence, 2022, 7–2 December. 2022, pages 1-6 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7241847 http://www.ibii-us.org/Journals/JMSBI/ ISBN 2472-9264 (Online), 2472-9256 (Print)

The post-pandemic world has exposed companies' various weaknesses in the supply chain strategy, such as product shortages, loss of revenue, high transportation costs, reputational damage, and increased competitive pressures. These manufacturing and logistical constraints have necessitated an expedited manner to generate a visualization dashboard to allow supply chain management executives to exercise rapid, more accurate, and agile decision-making. The utilization of a business intelligence tool such as Microsoft Power BI increases with industries compared to the conventional data analysis tools, which are splintered and are tedious in consolidating data unable to produce interactive dashboards. This paper demonstrates supply chain data acquisition, cleanup, transformation, and at-aglance visualizations leading to interactive performance dashboards providing actionable supply chain management insights utilizing the Microsoft Power BI tool for effective decision-making. Results display the power of data visualizations that accelerate and optimize various supply chain processes, thereby giving companies a competitive advantage using Power BI in place of other conventional analytical tools during the post-pandemic crisis. The proliferation of the Power BI tool in supply chain management will allow decision-makers to harness the complex data and produce descriptive and actionable business insights in an industry marred by shortages and delays.