Port congestion signal fusion

The aim is not to automate every exception. It is to recognize which one deserves attention first. This note examines port congestion signal fusion as a practical decision-support pattern.

Practitioner lens

A planner needs to know what changed, where the impact lands and what action is still open. Those three questions make port congestion signal fusion more operational than a generic alert.

First experiment

Select one product group or lane, compare a short historical baseline and log recommendations before acting.

This is an original educational brief. It is a starting point for discussion, not a claim that one technique fits every supply chain.