Indonesia Coal Trade System: A Knowledge-based Application Software

Performing coal trading in Indonesia is not simple. Many new comers in coal industry have been fallen down for many reasons. Some coal player collapse by fraudulent and some other fallen down by lack of knowledge in coal trading. To overcome this situation, a solution has proposed. The solution is by developing a web based application software for coal trading named Indonesia Coal Trade System (ICTS).The method in Software Development Life Cycle of ICTS is Joint Application Design by using prototyping. The software designed using UML and its CASE tools. It is smartphone friendly to support field engineers while in duty, and it will utilize phone's GPS and camera to collect important data.ICTS is an application that is not only data recording and processing of coal trading, but it also a workflow application developed by experts in coal trading. They transfer their tacit knowledge into software to guide users in coal trading in Indonesia. ICTS will reduce the chance of coal traders from fraudulent and it can lead companies to legal transactions.