WSNSCM 2012 - The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks for Supply Chain Management

With the growing pressure from regulations to enhance security, while needing to control and lower the costs, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has to face an end-to-end problematic: the proper modeling of complete supply chain, while including relevant security requirements, and leveraging real world information to both assess the security level and enforce the security requirements. In this context, sensors and RFIDs appear as an important assets for securing and optimizing of Supply Chain Management Systems. We have already identified important challenges that need to be addressed, and this will allow us to drive this workshop towards a constructive outcome, as listed on the topics (not limited to):

These challenges require identified experts from fields which are not necessarily correlated (SCM and WSNs). Our workshop will close this gap. These issues are also inline with the EU roadmap, with their planned call for proposals in 2012 for a 40 M euros research demonstration project on this topic.

The workshop will provide a constructive environment to reach a stimulating and productive interaction between researchers and industrial partners who work on very different aspects for the integration of WSNs and RFIDs for secure SCMs. The workshop intends to identify issues, methodologies and directions for future research, together with experience of industrial partners and encourage cooperation in this areas.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

Topics:

Privacy: Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment is an approach aimed at achieving accurate demand forecasts and improving supply chain operations by sharing demand relevant information between trading partners in the supply chain. In this way, the actors of the SCM are meant to share confidential information. In order to protect their privacy, there is a clear need for privacy preserving mechanisms. In this context, sensor or RFIDs can be seen as a secure mediator for information sharing in a secure matter.
Accountability: Accountability or Responsibility can be defined by the requirement to provide a justification for one’s action to whomever one answerable. In supply chain context, it means defining the responsibility, for example damaged goods, between supply chain partners. The increasing collaboration between different heterogeneous entities requires this kind of measure to protect the supply chain actors. Sensor or RFIDs can ease tracking over the whole chain, and support identification of faulty actors in the chain.
Dynamic Risk Assessment: Supply Chain Management system aims at preventing and detecting on early stage any accidents within the Supply Chain. Supply Chain are subject of a large spectrum of accidents, from damaged pallet in warehouse to explosion of chemical products while shipping. Sensor and RFID are good candidate in order to capture and detect risk of accident in the Supply Chain. Their capabilities to track and to capture good’s context enable Supply Chain to early detect incident, and make proper decision in order to mitigate identified risks.
SCM Quality of Service: In supply chain management, it is crucial to ensure a certain level of quality of service to fulfill customer expectation. From the production of raw material, to the distribution of finished products to the end-customer, including transformation, transportation of products, supply chain involves several actors. Each of them is meant to be evaluated based on identified performance quality of indicators (e.g., fill rate, confirmed fill rate, response delay, stock, delay). WSAN and RFID would track activities during the Supply Chain in order to dynamically evaluate the quality of service within the supply chain. In addition, it would give to the Supply Chain Management System an indication for optimization.

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
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