System dynamics analysis of RFID-EPC´s impact on reverse supply chain

Author

Qiao-lun, Gu ; Tie-gang, Gao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. Eng., Tianjin Univ. of Technol. & Educ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

13-15 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

255

Abstract

RFID-EPC plays an important role in Internet of Things which will be the new environment of application of the reverse supply chain. By using RFID-EPC, the reverse supply chain under Internet of Things will have some characteristics. In order to analyze the impacts of RFID-EPC on reverse supply chain, on the assumption that RFID-EPC can reduce the collection uncertainty of the used-products, we present a system dynamics model and show the changing of the inventories, the service levels, and the profits. By analyzing the simulation results of the reverse supply chain with and without RFID-EPC, we can obtain that the service levels and the profits of the collector, the disassembly center, and the remanufacturer will increase even though their inventories increase when RFID-EPC is used in reverse supply chain.

Keywords

production engineering computing; profitability; radiofrequency identification; recycling; reverse logistics; stock control; supply chains; RFID-EPC impact; disassembly; electronic product code; internet of things; inventories; profits; radiofrequency identification; remanufacturing; reverse supply chain; system dynamics analysis; Biological system modeling; Equations; Internet; Mathematical model; Radiofrequency identification; Simulation; Supply chains; RFID-EPC; Vensim® 5.10; internet of things; reverse supply chain; system dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2155-1847

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1885-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSE.2011.6069972

Filename

6069972