Decision support systems: transportation mode selection for agricultural product distribution

Abstract

Agriculture sector in Indonesia encounters several problems, two of them are distribution and long marketing chain. In Indonesia, system that can integrate the information of the parties in the distribution chain in agriculture is limited. This research contributes in the form of an E-Market which not only accommodate sellers and buyers, but also the distributor which provides transportation mode to deliver the agriculture product. Decision Support System feature allow the most suitable distributor, as well as its transportation mode, is selected by the users based on the common evaluation of transportation mode using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The advantages of this system are the seller can be independently determine its market and the buyers can search for potential producers and distributors as preferred