Internet of Things Impact on Supply Chain Management

Traditional supply chains deal with uncertainty, cost, complexity, and vulnerability problems. In order to overcome these problems, supply chain operations need to be innovative in business process management. Establishing a large-scale smart infrastructure to merge data, information, products, physical objects, and all supply chain processes needs to automate intelligently in supply chain management (SCM) through building secure operational decision support systems. Information technology (IT) and information and communication technology (ICT) are essential in business process automation. In recent decades, Internet of things (IoT) applications have played an essential role in automating supply chain management's regular business processes and their operations-related decisions. The vast adoption of wireless sensor networks (WANs) with IoT technology provides access to sensor nodes and sensing ability in Internet-connected devices. This way, the IoT provides access to a vast amount of data gathering by the WSNs, over the wide-area data communication networks. For example, sensing enterprise (SE) is an attribute of an enterprise or a network that allows it to react to business stimuli originating on the IoT-based infrastructure. This paper reviews some of the essential characteristics of IoT technology for designing SEs in supply chain management.