27-09-06 17:24
Age: 5 yrs

BY: INABA, TATSUYA

Threats in supply chains, such as counterfeiting, product piracy and product recall, are ubiquitous, and Japan is no exception to this trend. In addition, these threats are not limited to industrial products; supply chains of agricultural products are also under threat. In order to eliminate these threats, various efforts have been made, some of which are the applications enabled by the EPC System, a technology that connects the physical world with the information world. In this paper, we first analyze safe and secure supply chain issues in Japan and identify the fundamental issues through abstracting these issues. Then, we analyze how the EPC System works effectively to deal with these issues and propose potential research topics that can enhance the security level of supply chains. Although this study starts from issues in Japan, since those issues can be generalized, the analyses and proposals are applicable to issues in other countries/regions.

This paper also appears in the book:
Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography
Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting
Cole, Peter H.; Ranasinghe, Damith C. (Eds.)
2007, Approx. 360 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-71640-2
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