Applications of RFID in a SCOR-model driven enterprise production system

Abstract

The SCOR-model contains five primary management processes, namely, Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Return. The development of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology provides an efficient way to improve the supply chain performance. In this paper, the application of RFID technology in a SCOR-model driven enterprise production system (EPS) is introduced. The framework and architecture of the RFID-based EPS are proposed to integrate the RFID devices into the production system. Afterwards the main processes of the SCOR-model driven EPS are illustrated, problems concerning communication between the RFID devices and the EPS are discussed as well. With the application of RFID, the improvement of SCOR performance metrics is analyzed in the end.