Intelligent products: a step towards a more effective project delivery chain
Computers in Industry - Advanced web technologies for industrial applications
Smart identification frameworks for ubiquitous computing applications
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Pervasive computing and communications
Design patterns for managing product life cycle information
Communications of the ACM - Smart business networks
Architecture design and performance evaluation of RFID object tracking systems
Computer Communications
Benefits of an item-centric enterprise-data model in logistics services: A case study
Computers in Industry
Patterns and technologies for enabling supply chain traceability through collaborative e-business
Information and Software Technology
Using radio frequency identification in agent-based control systems for industrial applications
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Information Systems
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Integrated Design of Product and Processes
Service level management of nonstationary supply chain using direct neural network controller
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Intelligent Products: A survey
Computers in Industry
An active product state tracking architecture in logistics sensor networks
Computers in Industry
Position paper: Roadmap to tracking based business and intelligent products
Computers in Industry
Wireless Positioning Technologies and Applications
Wireless Positioning Technologies and Applications
Design of an RFID-based Healthcare Management System using an Information System Design Theory
Information Systems Frontiers
Short Communication: Improving location awareness in indoor spaces using RFID technology
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Agent-based model for managing composite product information
Computers in Industry
An RFID network design methodology for asset tracking in healthcare
Decision Support Systems
The benefits of embedded intelligence: tasks and applications for ubiquitous computing in logistics
IOT'08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on The internet of things
Evaluation of sensor readability and thermal relevance for RFID temperature tracking
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Knowledge-based RFID enabled Web Service architecture for supply chain management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The Internet of Things: A survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Adaptive product tracking in RFID-enabled large-scale supply chain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Autonomic tracing of production processes with mobile and agent-based computing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Optimal layout and deployment for RFID systems
Advanced Engineering Informatics
A comprehensive decision-making model for risk management of supply chain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Supporting real-time supply chain decisions based on RFID data streams
Journal of Systems and Software
eCloudRFID - A mobile software framework architecture for pervasive RFID-based applications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Enabling through life product-instance management: Solutions and challenges
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
RFID network planning using a multi-swarm optimizer
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A mobile RFID-based tour system with instant microblogging
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Modeling the information completeness of object tracking systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Return on investment calculator for RFID ecosystem of high tech company
Computers in Industry
Constructing a nutrition diagnosis expert system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Multi-tag and multi-owner RFID ownership transfer in supply chains
Decision Support Systems
Transparency in complex dynamic food supply chains
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Multi-enterprise collaborative decision support system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Survey of Wireless Indoor Positioning Techniques and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
The role of emergent information technologies and systems in enabling supply chain agility
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
SWTRACK: An intelligent model for cargo tracking based on off-the-shelf mobile devices
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Supply chain management with lean production and RFID application: A case study
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Supply chain product visibility may be defined to mean the capacity of the supply chain to have a view of a product's lifecycle, from its conception, manufacturing, distribution, delivery to the end customer, customer's experience of the product, and the product's end-of-life activities and processes. This implies developing and keeping a record of the product's materials and components, its physical state throughout the supply chain, the product's forward movement to the user-customer, customer's experience of the product, and the reverse logistics and reuse or termination of the product. The aim of visibility is to foster planning, control and agility of operations associated with the product and to improve customer experience of the product. ''Tracking'' is the term often used to describe the determination of the identity and state of a product in the forward direction (from manufacturing to the end user), while ''tracing'' is used to infer the product's path and history from downstream to upstream of the supply chain. In recent times there has been an upsurge of academic and commercial interest in product visibility. This interest has translated into numerous architectures, technologies and software for product visibility, both at the atomic (item) and composite (or aggregate) levels. Based on an extensive content analysis of academic and trade literature, including websites and documents of vendors and users of the technologies, this paper captures, analyses, compares and contrasts the design choices, essence, results and current and potential future impacts of some of the recent developments. The study also used survey by questionnaire across industries to assess user requirements of tracking and tracing systems and structures. The paper also charts future research directions for end-to-end visibility of product classes and their instances in supply chains.