Impact of RFID information-sharing coordination over a supply chain with reverse logistics

<p>Companies have adopted environmental practices such as reverse logistics over the past few decades. However, studies show that aligning partners inside the green supply chain can be a substantial problem. This lack of coordination can increase overall supply chain cost. Information technology such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has the potential to enable decentralized supply chain coordinate their information. Even though there are research that address RFID on traditional supply chain, few researches address how to coordinate RFID information sharing in a green supply chain. We study, through simulation experiments, two types of RFID information-sharing coordination under different configurations related with their inventory policies: basic and advanced. Statistical analyses show that better results can be presented in advanced RFID configuration given new coordination and inventory policy decisions presented. In addition, these findings shows what are the RFID information-sharing coordination that can provide better system improvement depending on the supply chain scenarios and factors.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Industrial Engineering

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Nativi Nicolau, Juan Jose

Contributors dc:contributor

• Seokcheon Lee
• Hyonho Chun
• Shimon Nof
• Jose Tanchoco

• Applied sciences
• Information sharing
• Information Technology
• RFID
• Reverse logistics
• Supply chain
• Environmental Engineering
• Industrial Engineering

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/978

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2195