Developing a Traceability System for Tuna Supply Chains

Tuna is one of the flagship export commodity from Indonesia which has special characteristics such as high perishable food and has a complex supply chain network. According to the characteristics, the potency of deterioration and cross contamination along the chain will be a challenge for every actor in tuna supply chain, to provide tuna product with the best quality and safe to consume. One of the tool to ensure the standard safety and quality is doing traceability system along tuna supply chain. It is very crucial because every actor in chain has a responsibility to ensure food safety and quality through handling, manufacturing, packaging, and transporting the product. The critical point that should be covered by traceability system in tuna supply chain includes temperature, content of histamine, quantity of TPC, and contents of bacterial pathogens like Salmonella, and the sanitation for workers, equipment and processing room. The Information Technology (IT) based tuna traceability system is proposed and discussed in this paper to optimizing the traceability system in tuna supply chain. This paper discusses the development of a traceability system architecture and prototype for tuna supply chains. The developed system prototype shows the functional capabilities required for backward and forward tracing of tuna fish transformation and movement along the chain involving many actors (from fishing vessels to retailers). The system also permits the monitoring of processes and products based on microbiological analysis and on existing SOPs owned by some actors in a a tuna supply chain. The implementation issues are also described in this paper

Pengembangan sistem penelusuran berbasis teknologi informasi pada rantai pasok produk tuna

Tuna fish, which is one of Indonesia flagship export commodity of seafood, has specific characteristics as a high perishable food and has a complex supply chain network. These conditions will be a challenge for the stakeholders to provide a standardized tuna product. According to the fact, the traceability system, which is a tool of food safety management system, needs to be implemented. The Indonesia government through Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Affairs has created the regulation of seafood safety and quality assurance control system. The seafood safety and quality assurance system include the HACCP implementation system and the implementation of traceability system. The implementation of traceability system in tuna industry has being manually, which means in paper based traceability system. The paper based traceability system has several limitations such as language barrier, could not detect the position of product real time, need too much space to save the document, and has a potency to be manipulated. The limitations of the current traceability system demanding an innovation of traceability system which is based on Information Technology (IT). The IT based traceability system is believed to conclude the limitations of paper based traceability system, such as can provide real time data, and can save the data in digital format to provide the better accurate information to the user. The aims of this research are designing the architecture of IT based traceability system in tuna supply chain and developing the prototype of tuna traceability system. The research consists of three steps i.e: analysis of tuna supply chain model, measure the performance of tuna supply chain by SCOR model approach, and developing the prototype of tuna traceability system with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach. SDLC approach consists of several steps, namely system investigation, system architecture development, data acquisition development, system analysis with Data Flow Diagram (DFD), database design, and system interface development. The result of this research shows that tuna supply chain structure consists of several actors, namely fishing vessel, transit, fish processing unit, transporter, distributor, retailer, and the government. The chain management system is conducted by HACCP approach to ensure the food safety of the product. This is very important due to the food safety is the priorty performance parameter in tuna supply chain. The result of performance measurement of tuna supply chain shows that tuna supply chain got the 92.60%. The result indicates that tuna supply chain performance has done well and possible to be developed into IT based traceability system. The result of system investigation shows the functionality of the system such as allows every registered actor to access the system and update the real time process and product condition, allows every registered actor to see the quality assurance system in every stage of tuna supply chain, allows the registred actor to input the data, provide Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to every stage in tuna supply chain, and provide final report interface to fish processing unit manager and possible to accesed by registered actors. The development of system architecture creates the system architecture with multiple functional structure. The development 8 of data acquisition system shows the utilization of sensors like RFID, GPS, and CCTV for every registered actor based on their needs. The result of system analysis with DFD consists of context diagram, level 1 diagram, level 2 diagram, and level 3 diagram. The database design creates 17 file to develop prototype system. The result of prototype development shows the sytem interface which consists of actor registration page, processing page, and laboratory analysis report. Based on the result, this research has developed the prototype of IT based traceability system for tuna fish. The system has several features to solve paper based traceability limitations

Pengembangan sistem penelusuran berbasis teknologi informasi pada rantai pasok produk tuna

Tuna fish, which is one of Indonesia flagship export commodity of seafood, has specific characteristics as a high perishable food and has a complex supply chain network. These conditions will be a challenge for the stakeholders to provide a standardized tuna product. According to the fact, the traceability system, which is a tool of food safety management system, needs to be implemented. The Indonesia government through Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Affairs has created the regulation of seafood safety and quality assurance control system. The seafood safety and quality assurance system include the HACCP implementation system and the implementation of traceability system. The implementation of traceability system in tuna industry has being manually, which means in paper based traceability system. The paper based traceability system has several limitations such as language barrier, could not detect the position of product real time, need too much space to save the document, and has a potency to be manipulated. The limitations of the current traceability system demanding an innovation of traceability system which is based on Information Technology (IT). The IT based traceability system is believed to conclude the limitations of paper based traceability system, such as can provide real time data, and can save the data in digital format to provide the better accurate information to the user. The aims of this research are designing the architecture of IT based traceability system in tuna supply chain and developing the prototype of tuna traceability system. The research consists of three steps i.e: analysis of tuna supply chain model, measure the performance of tuna supply chain by SCOR model approach, and developing the prototype of tuna traceability system with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach. SDLC approach consists of several steps, namely system investigation, system architecture development, data acquisition development, system analysis with Data Flow Diagram (DFD), database design, and system interface development. The result of this research shows that tuna supply chain structure consists of several actors, namely fishing vessel, transit, fish processing unit, transporter, distributor, retailer, and the government. The chain management system is conducted by HACCP approach to ensure the food safety of the product. This is very important due to the food safety is the priorty performance parameter in tuna supply chain. The result of performance measurement of tuna supply chain shows that tuna supply chain got the 92.60%. The result indicates that tuna supply chain performance has done well and possible to be developed into IT based traceability system. The result of system investigation shows the functionality of the system such as allows every registered actor to access the system and update the real time process and product condition, allows every registered actor to see the quality assurance system in every stage of tuna supply chain, allows the registred actor to input the data, provide Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to every stage in tuna supply chain, and provide final report interface to fish processing unit manager and possible to accesed by registered actors. The development of system architecture creates the system architecture with multiple functional structure. The development 8 of data acquisition system shows the utilization of sensors like RFID, GPS, and CCTV for every registered actor based on their needs. The result of system analysis with DFD consists of context diagram, level 1 diagram, level 2 diagram, and level 3 diagram. The database design creates 17 file to develop prototype system. The result of prototype development shows the sytem interface which consists of actor registration page, processing page, and laboratory analysis report. Based on the result, this research has developed the prototype of IT based traceability system for tuna fish. The system has several features to solve paper based traceability limitations