Otimização da gestão de estoques em uma indústria de mídias exteriores

Abstract

In a highly competitive market, the organizations are looking for a competitive advantage through their internal processes. The management of the stocked quantity performs a fundamental role by the fact that it represents fixed assets, occupied physical space and it hides the existence of planning problems. The challenge is to establish inventory levels which can provide appropriate service to the customers and at the same time it has to be viable to the company in the financial viewpoint. With the support of a theoretical background, this work places the inventory management as logistics’ primary activity also includes the methodology to determine the inventory level and reorder point (ROP). By elaborating the ABC curve, the items that influence the most on the cost composition were identified and it demonstrated that 22 items were responsible for 80.26% of the annual material purchase cost from January 2012 to December 2014. To determine the appropriate inventory level, the Sawtooth wave methodology was applied.