A System Analysis and Design For Selecting Chitin and Chitosan Industry Location By Using Comparative Performance Index Method

Abstract

The chitin and chitosan industry development is motivated by its wide application of chitin and chitosan as biopolymer and by its potential raw material from crustacean shell which is known as waste in shrimp processing industry, to help reducing the environment pollution. Indonesia only has three establish chitin and chitosan industries, all centralized in J ava Island. Non-Java location expansion is required in order to support indu~tria l ization focus of government policy. This paper presents a system analysis and design n ith Business Process Modeling and Notation to select best location for a new initiative of chitin and chitosan industry. Sever al steps for location selection formed alternatives of location by identif) ing selection criteria for chitin and chitosan industry, and eventually deciding the best location. The Pairwise Comparison Method was deployed in deciding the best location and supporttd wi:h Comparativt Performance Index l\lethod. The computation results revealed that North Sumatera Province is the best location for a new chitin and chitosan industry.