Reverse Logistics – Herausforderungen undgrundlegende Nutzenpotenziale von RFID

This paper deals with the use of RFID in reverse logistics. At first, reverse logistics is introduced as anarea of logistics research, which has gained in importance in the last years. Drivers of this developmentas well as current challenges for reverse logistics are discussed. The author then identifies potentialbenefits of the use of RFID in reverse logistics processes. Furthermore, the specific demandsfor object identification and information in reverse logistics are derived and compared to those of forwardlogistics. The objective of this paper is to give an overview..