Iot based supply chain management

Abstract

Beginning from the evolution of industrialization, planning, production and distribution has always been the significant process. For manufacturing and distribution of the products from company or suppliers to the customers involves many things e.g. people, information, materialistic resources etc. This vital process, known as Supply Chain Management (SCM) when collaborated with Internet of Things (IoT) can result into greater possibilities in different aspects of supply. In this paper, we focused on the integration of IoT with core features of supply chain management, which are production, packaging and delivery of the product. In this system, clients can place order online, and for packaging and tagging, we have used RFID tags, which can be read for keeping information about the product in different warehouses. For ensuring a user friendly delivery experience, we have used Ai-Thinker A7 module, which is a combination of GPS, GSM and GPRS system that continuously updates the vehicle information in cloud server through which clients can easily track their products’ location. The main purpose of this research is to make automated SCM and increasing efficiency using IoT.