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The National Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network Demonstrator Project (NDP) was the first large scale consumer goods track and trace investigation in the world using full EPC protocol system for applying RFID technology in supply chains. The NDP demonstrated the methods of sharing information securely using EPC Network, providing authentication to interacting parties, and enhancing the ability to track and trace movement of goods within the entire supply chain involving transactions among multiple enterprise. Due to project constraints, the actual run of the NDP was 3 months only and was unable to consolidate with quantitative results. This paper discusses the modelling and simulation of activities in the NDP in a discrete event simulation environment and provides an estimation of the potential benefits that can be derived from the NDP if it was continued for one whole year.
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Mo, J.P.T. (2009). Modelling and Simulation of National Electronic Product Code Network Demonstrator Project. In: Weinhardt, C., Luckner, S., Stößer, J. (eds) Designing E-Business Systems. Markets, Services, and Networks. WEB 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01256-3_6
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