RFID-enabled learning supply chain: A smart pedagogical environment for TELD

The supply chain is very important in the industrial field, thus Supply Chain Management (SCM) is becoming one of the key parts in engineering education since this sector needs a large number of professionals to take charge of various interconnected business transactions. However, the teaching and learning ofSCMare facing several challenges, like a lack of up-to-date training materials, limited demonstrative facilities, and a passive education mode through listening and watching. This paper introduces a smart pedagogical environment for Teaching by Examples and Learning by Doing (TELD), which is an RFID-enabled learning supply chain (LSC) based on advanced Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to address these challenges. The RFID-enabled LSC uses RFID technology, wireless communication standards, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create a smart environment of the supply chain, adopts a number of games in each supply chain echelon, such as manufacturing, distribution, and retailing to demonstrate the key principles in global SCM, as well as integrating problem-based learning, experience-based learning and collaborative E-learning to realize TELD.A case study from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong shows the working mechanism and efforts of the RFID-enabled LSC in terms of rationalized user activities and quantitative improvements.