Track: Logistics, Transport and Traffic Management

Abstract

In a highly competitive and uncertain industry, as is the area of the logistic services, creating new offers, complex, customized and integrated, and their differentiation are the levers of performance and profit to the logistics service providers. Being a specialist, force of proposals and innovation appears to be essential for these third-party actors (noted LSP). Faced with changing their profession, what the added value for the LSP to use information and communication technologies especially Internet of Things (IoT)? What can be the strategies implemented by the logistics service providers to sustain its activity?

This article will lay the theoretical foundation for reflection on the strengths implemented by LSP manifested mainly by the use of radio identification chips (RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification). We will present a novel approach to integrate the RFID smart and legacy Tag in the logistics outsourcing process by using the publish/subscribe pattern with the MQTT (Message Queueing Telemetry Transport) protocol. This approach allows integrating an RFID system continuously to the logistics outsourcing process and reporting event in real time regarding the performance of the LSPs.