Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Manajemen Persediaan Berbasis Web Pada Toko Istana Plastik Manado

Inventory management can help store owners manage their product inventory over time. This isimportant to avoid the potential for stock shortages which could give the impression of the shopowner's inability to meet consumer demand. In this regard, the owner of the Toko Istana PlastikManado Store aware of the need to migrate from traditional inventory management to informationtechnology-based inventory management. It is hoped that with this migration, manual practicessuch as recording stock using books and collecting data on daily sales transactions using MicrosoftExcel worksheets, can be integrated. Apart from that, differences between the stock of goods in thewarehouse and the inventory records can be avoided. In other words, documentation of goodsentering and exiting the warehouse and in the store is neat and the information provided has muchhigher accuracy. The proposed solution is an integrated inventory management informationsystem between warehouses and stores. This proposed information system can also help with dailyoperational activities including selling and purchasing goods. With this information system, it ishoped that safety stock conditions can be achieved to anticipate indirect losses due to lack of stock.The research was conducted using qualitative research methodology. Meanwhile, systemdevelopment follows the Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology, especially thePrototyping method. The results of testing using the black-box method show that the web-basedinventory management information system that was built can provide more accurate informationon goods in and out than the manual system. For further development, this system can be equippedwith features providing stock status information through the creation of an online shop as well asinstant notifications for warehouse managers regarding requests for goods from store managers.