Agile Supply Chain Management Enabled by the Internet of Things and Microservices

The business networks of modern world span across the globe, and their requirements for supply chain management and logistics have grown extensively. The field is continuously innovating to make the supply chain more predictable, to optimize the logistics, and to be cost-efficient. This paper investigates the impact of using the Internet of Things in supply chain management in the first part. The software engineering methodologies are rapidly evolving to meet the current business requirements of the modern world, and companies are moving toward more agile methodologies. Microservices architecture solves numerous problems in the modern software development process. The impact of following microservices architecture is analyzed in the second part of the paper. Finally, all the dots are connected by discussing the development of IoT-enabled supply chain solutions with microservices architecture. While microservices, IoT, and supply chain management are evolving in their own aspects, this paper is an attempt to bring all the three together to achieve more agile supply chains to satisfy the growing business needs.