A conceptual system for supply chain management: agricultural products distribution in Indonesia

Abstract

The agricultural sector in Indonesia face many problems, such as small-scale farming, minimum fund, the lack of technologies utilization, reliance on the season, limited access to credit loans, and market monopoly. This study will discuss a conceptual system which can provide access toward supply chain information in agriculture. This concept are offered to overcome the problems, particularly in terms of agricultural products local marketing and reducing market monopoly, by considering the requirement of three main parties: sellers, buyers and transportation carrier. The developed conceptual system is expected to become a basis for the development of an IT-based supply chain system that can accommodate the needs of the parties in the agricultural product supply chain system