Sustainability analysis of supply chain via particulate matter emissions prediction in China

ABSTRACT

With the increasing importance of air pollutant emissions to the platform economy and green supply chain management, it is essential to analyse the trend and correlation between particulate matter emissions and supply chain statistics. Typical approaches do not integrate particulate matter prediction with the sustainability analysis, and suffer from common issues such as low classification accuracy and unstable prediction performance. In this study, we propose an integrated analytical framework for sustainability analysis of supply chain management through particulate matter emissions prediction. Specifically, we performance trend and correlation analysis between particulate matter emissions (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀) and supply chain statistics in Beijing of China. We combine the boosting algorithm and neural network method to predict particulate matter emissions. Experimental results show that our prediction model achieved high performance. Sustainability analysis shows that the steady growth of the supply chain operations is accompanied by decreasing air pollutant emissions in China.

KEYWORDS:

• Sustainability analysis
• supply chain management
• particulate matter emission prediction
• boosting neural network

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work is fully supported by the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Decision-Making & Information System Technologies of China [No. PA2020GDGP0057].