Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Production Research Année : 2022

Managing demand volatility of pharmaceutical products in times of disruption through news sentiment analysis

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Unplanned events such as epidemic outbreaks, natural disasters, or major scandals are usually accompanied by supply chain disruption and highly volatile demand. Besides, authors have recently outlined the need for new applications of artificial intelligence to provide decision support in times of crisis. In particular, natural language processing allows for deriving an understanding from unstructured data in human languages, such as online news content, which can provide valuable information during disruptive events. This article contributes to this research strand as it aims to leverage textual data from news through sentiment analysis and predict demand volatility of pharmaceutical products in times of crisis. As a result, (1) a deep-learning-based sentiment analysis model was developed to extract and structure information from medicines-related news; (2) a framework allowing for combining extracted information from unstructured data with structured data of medicines demand was defined; and (3) an approach combining efficient artificial intelligence techniques with existing forecasting models was proposed to enhance demand forecasting in times of disruption. Additionally, the framework was applied to two examples of disruptive events in France: a pharmaceutical scandal and the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings outlined that using sentiment analysis allowed for enhancing demand forecasting accuracy.

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hal-04014785 , version 1 (04-03-2023)

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Angie Nguyen, Robert Pellerin, Samir Lamouri, Béranger Lekens. Managing demand volatility of pharmaceutical products in times of disruption through news sentiment analysis. International Journal of Production Research, 2022, 61 (9), pp.2828 - 2839. ⟨10.1080/00207543.2022.2070044⟩. ⟨hal-04014785⟩
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