Multi-Agent LLM Systems for Autonomous Supply Chain Disruption Analysis and Resilient Recovery Planning

@article{1723011,
      author = {Sohail Sayed, Nauman Sayed},
      title = {Multi-Agent LLM Systems for Autonomous Supply Chain Disruption Analysis and Resilient Recovery Planning},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2024},
      volume = {8},
      number = {6},
      pages = {1344-1357},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1723011.pdf},
      abstract = {Supply chain disruption management remains dominated by manual, reactive processes: analysts triage alerts, root causes are identified slowly, and recovery plans lag the events they are meant to counter [1]. This paper argues that multi-agent systems powered by large language models — generalist agents with multi-faceted decision-making that communicate in natural language — are the convergence point that enables autonomous disruption analysis and resilient recovery planning, two decades of agent-based supply chain research having been held back by implementation difficulty and black-box behavior [2], [3]. We propose ORCHESTRA-SC, a governed multi-agent framework coupling (i) specialized analysis agents (monitoring, causal root-cause reasoning, network-exposure assessment), (ii) a consensus-seeking negotiation layer in which agents representing facilities and functions reconcile selfish objectives with systemic outcomes, (iii) a recovery-planning layer that transpiles agent consensus into solver-verified plans through LLM–OR integration, (iv) a digital-twin simulation loop for stress-testing recovery strategies, and (v) guardrail, audit, and drift-resistance governance. The framework consolidates the reported evidence envelope: a seven-agent agentic framework detects, analyses, and responds to disruptions across extended networks with F1 scores between 0.962 and 0.991, completes end-to-end analyses in a mean of 3.83 minutes at $0.0836 per disruption — more than three orders of magnitude faster than multi-day analyst assessments, validated on the 2022 Russia–Ukraine conflict [4]; agentic root-cause reasoning reduces mean time to root-cause identification by 30% and improves incident-resolution accuracy by 22% while surfacing hidden dependencies missed by baselines [1]; consensus-seeking LLM agents reduce the bullwhip effect and, equipped with tools, minimize it better than restocking policies and centralized demand approaches [5]; a governed LLM optimization framework cuts unsafe decision outputs by 45% and sustains drift-detection accuracy above 92% [6]; a hybrid agentic inventory framework strictly decoupling semantic reasoning from mathematical calculation reduces total inventory costs by 32.1% relative to an interactive GPT-4o end-to-end solver [7]; and OR-augmented LLM agents outperform either approach in isolation, with human–AI teams achieving higher profits than humans or agents alone across more than 1,000 benchmark instances [8]. The paper argues that the autonomy ladder — from assisted analysis to governed action — is climbed one verified capability at a time, and that consensus, grounding, and digital-twin validation are what separate multi-agent experiments from multi-agent operations.},
      keywords = {Multi-agent systems, large language models, agentic AI, supply chain disruption, recovery planning, consensus-seeking, digital twin, reinforcement learning governance, supply chain resilience.},
      month = {December},
  }