Simulation of RFID-aided Supply Chains: Case Study of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Matthieu-P. Schapranow, Cindy Faehnrich, Alexander Zeier, Hasso Plattner · 2011
Integrating RFID technology In current supply chains involves the development and testing of various IT systems, such as event repositories. Their development requires excessive real-world event data to verify architecture designs, access control, response time behavior, etc. Due to lack of industry-wide adoption of RFID technology, real-world event data for global implementations is not available, today. In this work, we present a configurable simulator for RFID-aided supply chains that is capable to create consistent and realistic event data. We used our generated event data as the basis for getting real-world event data to define requirements, develop, and test RFID systems with concrete industry-specific event data before the industrial adoption of RFID technology succeeded. As a result, we were able to verify IT components in EPCglobal networks with real-world data long before concrete industry data is available.