Inventory transparency for agricultural produce through IOT

[摘要] Re-structuring the practices of traditional inventory management is becoming more essential to optimize the supply chain transparency and accuracy of agricultural produce. A flexible and transparent inventory management system is becoming the need of any agricultural commodity. It was noticed that the major setback for the farmers who are the suppliers of the farm produce is due to poor supply chain integration. The recent advent technologies and IT explosion can bring up a greater impact in the process of storing, tracking, distributing and monitoring perishable agriculture produce of day to day life. The primary focus of this paper is to integrate IoT into inventory management and other inbound logistics management of agriculture produce. The unique features of agricultural produce like a prediction of supply, demand, the location of warehouses, distribution and tracking of inventory can be integrated through IoT. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for inventory management transparency involved in the supply chain of agriculture produce.

[发布机构] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, India^1;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, India^2

[效力级别] 机械制造 [学科分类] 航空航天科学

[关键词] Agricultural commodities;Conceptual frameworks;Inbound logistics;Inventory management;Inventory management systems;Supply-chain integration;Unique features