A system analysis and design for mobile digital business traceability at a food manufacturing

Abstract

As one of the multinational biscuit manufacturers in Bekasi, the X company is supported by Business Planning and Control System (BPCS) for the traceability in their supply chain. Although it has covered upstream and downstream supply chains, the company’s traceability is still considered ineffective. It is seen from the results of the company’s evaluation through the mock recall procedure. The research aims to identify the requirement of a mobile traceability system for mock recall procedures, design components of mobile traceability system prototype based on an android system, and validate the mobile traceability system and performances. The business process analysis in this research is using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to trace the system. The results show that traceability is still less effective because activities are done manually, which takes much time. Therefore, the system is developed with cosine similarity calculation and verification of the model and validation of the black box. The verification and validation of the system against its needs show that the mobile traceability system can improve the effectiveness of company traceability and can be applied in the internal supply chain.