A Decision Support Framework for Port Efficiency Discovery Based on Intelligent Data Integration

Trading port efficiency is an important determinant of the competitiveness of the goods and a key factor to improve the investment climate of the countries. Managing the efficiency and coordinating distributed entities in a supply chain is a challenging task. This paper provide proposed s decision support framework for port efficiency discovery based on intelligent data integration, and provided some intelligent approaches to measure and analysis the trading port efficiency from supply chain aspect. The solution can take adequate use of the massive operational data accumulated in the distributed information system scattered in different sectors, and give useful information to support decision-making. A Case study has been developed to give an illustration of employing the proposed decision support framework in one of the trading port in China. The results obtained indicate that the prototype system is capable of get some useful insights into port efficiency.