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Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions with Foresight Learning

Benjamin Turtel, Paul Wilczewski, Kris Skotheim

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Published 2026-04-01 · First seen 2026-04-04

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Anticipating supply chain disruptions before they materialize is a core challenge for firms and policymakers alike. A key difficulty is learning to reason reliably about infrequent, high-impact events from noisy and unstructured inputs - a setting where general-purpose models struggle without task-specific adaptation. We introduce an end-to-end framework that trains LLMs to produce calibrated probabilistic forecasts using realized disruption outcomes as supervision. The resulting model substantially outperforms strong baselines - including GPT-5 - on accuracy, calibration, and precision. We also show that training induces more structured and reliable probabilistic reasoning without explicit prompting. These results suggest a general pathway for training domain-specific forecasting models that produce decision-ready signals. To support transparency we open-source the evaluation dataset used in this study. Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/LightningRodLabs/supply-chain-predictions

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@misc{turtel2026forecasting,
  title = {Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions with Foresight Learning},
  author = {Benjamin Turtel and Paul Wilczewski and Kris Skotheim},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Anticipating supply chain disruptions before they materialize is a core challenge for firms and policymakers alike. A key difficulty is learning to reason reliably about infrequent, high-impact events from noisy and unstructured inputs - a setting where general-purpose models struggle without task-specific adaptation. We introduce an end-to-end framework that trains LLMs to produce calibrated probabilistic forecasts using realized disruption outcomes as supervision. The resulting model substanti},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2604.01298},
  keywords = {large language models, probabilistic forecasts, calibration, supply chain disruptions, domain-specific adaptation, decision-ready signals, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2604.01298},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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