Applications of IoT to Reverse Supply Chain

Modern information technologies continue to provide manufacturing industry with new and improved methods. Reverse supply chain (RSC) management, which is oriented towards the entire lifecycle of products, has been concerned with the emerging of green manufacturing. With the rapid development of IoT, a smart reverse supply chain (SRSC) will be formed based on RFID, sensors, high performance computing, intelligent technologies and nanotechnologies. The SRSC system will help manufacturing process reduce energy consumption, enable resources to be recycled and create an environmentally friendly mode of green manufacturing. This paper focuses on the studies of SRSC network topology and the integrated architecture. Furthermore, some related key technologies are discussed.