System and Method of Decoding Supply Chain Signatures

A system and method for automated machine learning supply chain planning having a computer with a processor and memory and configured to receive a first supply chain network model having one or more material constraints for operations of a first supply chain network. Embodiments include transforming the first supply chain network model into a digital image, training an auto-encoder model to reduce the dimensionality of an input vector, and locating one or more items in the first supply chain network.