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e-RL: The Internet of Things Supported Reverse Logistics for Remanufacture-to-Order

Authors:
Bo Xing
Wen-Jing Gao
Kimberly Battle
Fulufhelo Nelwamondo
Tshilidzi Marwala

Keywords: RL (Reverse Logistic); IoT (Internet of Things); MAS (Multi-Agent System)

Abstract:
With the increasing globalization, there are many sources of uncertainty across the entire reverse logistics for end-of-life product recovery. Information sharing is a key ingredient in this respect because it helps to eradicate potential uncertainties related to various corporate behaviors, especially in remanufacture-to-order aspect. However traditional reverse logistics does not fully address itself to this issue. As a result, the progressive loss of product information as it moves through its lifecycle becomes inevitable which leads to a difficulty in implementing remanufacture-to-order strategy. Motivated by this fact, this study presents an ongoing design of novel reverse logistics (i.e., e-reverse logistics). The Internet of things technology is introduced into this framework for the purpose of keeping product life cycle information integrity. Furthermore, the cooperation and collaboration between actors involved in proposed architecture are treated in multi-agent system philosophy. The design characteristics and working principles of e-reverse logistics are detailed in this paper and it serves as a start point for further implementation.

Pages: 84 to 87

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: November 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4499

ISBN: 978-1-61208-172-4

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 20, 2011 to November 25, 2011