A Model of Real-Time Supply Chain Collaboration under RFID Circumstances

Abstract

In the increasing requirements of quick responses to the market, for the market competition became more fiercely and the customers’ diversified needs of product increased. Enterprises realized the importance of collaboration between suppliers and partners, especially for saving response time to order. More and more enterprises feel the time pressure during the process of customer’s need when they should satisfy customer’s individual demands. Lowering down the logistics time means lowering logistics cost, especially the stock cost. Thus the market competition ability of business enterprises could be raised. While RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) techniques could reduce the dealing time on supply chain. How to use RFID techniques to decline inventory and waste is a tough issue. This article targeted on collaboration of supply chain in clothing industry for research object, a valid method for modeling of real-time supply chain collaboration was proposed. RFID technology was applied in stock management, as optimization method was adopted for inventory control based collaboration. A collaboration model was build to decline time, cost and waste. Finally, the application method was verified according emulation.