Information system is essential to provide necessary information in a business.
Along with the development of information technology in this era, any kind of
business including retail business has no other choice but to follow this
development in order to compete with another competitors. Toko Besi Panji Jaya
is one of retail business in Yogyakarta that sells building materials. Developing
information system in this retailer is the aim of the research. This information
system is used to support the decision making process in the retailer. The
developed information system is on Management Information System (MIS) level.
The development of information system in Toko Besi Panji followed the System
Development Life-Cycle method. The business process was identified by
observing the activity in the retailer and interviewed the owner. From the
observation and interviews, business process evaluation is done to support the
information system development. The evaluation of the business process used
SWOT Analysis method. The design phase used Data Flow Diagram and Entity
Relationship Diagram as the documentation method on this information system
modelling.
By implementing the information system, the retailer can track the records of any
transaction happened in the whole business process and the data that is
collected in the system is processed to calculate the amount of sales and
purchases done in certain period of time. From the result of this process, the
owner can make better consideration in decision-making process