New Operational Mode of R/M Integrated Supply Chain Based on IoT

Abstract

In R/M integrated supply chain, the collecting time, the quality and the quantity of the used-products are uncertain. All of these uncertainties have great impacts on the management of R/M integrated supply chain. By using the technology of Internet of Things, these uncertainties can be reduced efficiently. However, the R/M integrated supply chain based on IoT must face another problem: a unit product is made up of many parts, the product and each part have their own EPC, how to obtain the information of the product and each part by their EPC when the inside parts' EPC are invisible directly? In order to solve this problem, in this paper, we give the definition of product DNA and present a new operational mode of R/M integrated supply chain based on IoT by using product DNA.