A Collaborative Architecture for Supply Chain Transparency Based on EPCIS Standard and MongoDB
Transparency is a fundamental requirement for granting the safety and quality of products along the whole supply chain. To reach such objective, a great collaboration along the actors of the supply chain is required. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
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Abstract. Transparency is a fundamental requirement for granting the safety and quality of products along the whole supply chain. To reach such objective, a great collaboration along the actors of the supply chain is required. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and other pervasive computing technologies are able to generate event data to keep track of how physical entities pass through different parties of the supply chain processes. Recently, the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard was introduced to enable the sharing of such events across supply chains. Works presented in literature are mainly focused on enabling technologies, with less emphasis on assessing how the available information can be used for a control at a higher level. In this paper, we present a collaborative architecture allowing the traceability of information about products throughout the entire supply chain by exploiting both the EPCIS standard and a NoSQL database. An application showing the potentiality of the proposed system in a case study is also reported. Keywords: Collaborative supply chain EPCIS RFID NoSQL MongoDB
Transparency Traceability GS1
1 Introduction Today, consumers pay more and more attention to product quality, and especially in the food sector, they are interested in knowing the origin of the product and its pathway from the producer to the final seller. Consumers are oriented to chose products basing on the credence attributes rather than the price, and fraud and counterfeiting cause the lost of consumers’ trust. For this reason, the problem of integrating data through the supply chains is becoming an important research topic. The safety and trust of consumers have to be guaranteed, and a strong collaboration along the supply chain is needed. By recording product transitions, Barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) have provided partial solutions to this issue [1, 2]. Traceability of food product in supply chain has gained considerable importance, particularly following a number of food safety cases during delivery [3]. However, companies and organizations today are not able to manage an extended network of suppliers and distributors. Thus, fraud and counterfeiting are arising and are difficult to discover. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 Published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. All Rights Reserved H. Afsarmanesh et al. (Eds.): PRO-VE 2016, IFIP AICT 480, pp. 599–607, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_51
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G. Bruno and V. Viola
The Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) is a standard that provides specifications to assure product traceability [4]. The collection and analysis of product information allows supply chains to be virtualized and remotely monitored, optimized and controlled [5]. However, tracking a product is not enough to grant its quality. All the roles involved have to incrementally provide additional information regarding the product stages. EPCIS proposes a mechanism to exchange and
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