Proposed Design of White Sugar Industrial Supply Chain System based on Blockchain Technology

Ratna Ekawati,Suprihatin ,Yandra Arkeman,Titi Candra

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2021.0120459

Abstract

The white crystal sugar agro-industry is an industry with dynamic characteristics characterized by a sustainable relationship between actors ranging from farmers to consumers. An inefficient supply chain system will affect the flow of products, information, and finance because many actors are involved and have influence. Hence, complicating the system in the tracking process flow, product flow and creating problems that occur in business processes. The main objective of this research is to propose the design of an integrated white crystal sugar agro-industrial supply chain system based on blockchain technology so that it can increase competitiveness in realizing food security and resilience; by proposing a search for the problem of mismatches that occur along the supply chain from upstream to downstream. The variables that will be identified in the supply chain flow include quality, quantity, and price, with the suitability of transaction information data ranging from farmers, sugar factories, warehouses, distribution, retailers to the final consumer. It is hoped that consumers will feel happy to consume trusted local sugar with the best safety and quality, as well as ensure transparency of information between actors. Previous traditional methods, which were still centralized, would be transformed into decentralized information, to create trust among stakeholders. With a blockchain-based traceability architecture design, it is hoped that the proposed design can be implemented in the white crystal sugar agro-industry.

Highlights

White crystal sugar is one of the strategic commodities in the agricultural industry [1], it is necessary to maintain both quality and quantity to achieve national food security and security
The blockchain work analogy that will be designed is that the actors participating in the supply chain system of the white crystal sugar agro-industry conduct or request transactions represented by each block, which will be distributed to a peer network consisting of computers or nodes, where the nodes will validate the blocks and the transaction requested
This research is expected to produce a design of a white crystal sugar agroindustry supply chain system based on blockchain technology

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Introduction

White crystal sugar is one of the strategic commodities in the agricultural industry [1], it is necessary to maintain both quality and quantity to achieve national food security and security. The white crystal sugar agro-industry is an industry with dynamic characteristics characterized by a sustainable relationship between actors ranging from farmers to consumers. The low average efficiency of sugar mills based on plantation performance is 61.78% and factory performance 63.05% [2], the performance of sugar mills in Yogyakarta province is 72.338% [3], the performance of partner farmers is 75.86% [4]. Up to the consumer table [7], [8], [9] This causes the end consumer not to have accurate and precise information regarding the quality and quantity of sugar. Because consumers only know that sugar is sweet, but do not know the meaning contained in the quality of the sugar, the difference in the color of sugar, and the shape of the grains on the market

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