Ferramentas e sistema de custo aplicados a gestão da qualidade no agronegócio

Abstract

Quality management is a key factor in the success of any company especially to food industry where quality is directly related to health and food security. Moreover, an efficient quality management impacts directly in the costs and, profitability, in the hence of companies. Based on these, this study aims to investigate the usage of tools and system costs applied to the quality management in dairies of Paraná’s southwest, through the characterization of the researched dairies with focus on the evaluation of the quality management tools implementation and quality expenses systems. To its realization the data that support this research were collected using semi-structured questionnaire with opened and closed questions, applied to nine dairies under the supervision of the Paranaense Inspection Service (SIP) from Paraná’s southwest region. The results were analyzed based on descriptive statistics. From the data analysis it was found that dairies products evaluated are classified as micro and small, focusing their efforts for the implementation of the tools and methodologies of quality management "Era" quality assurance, however, there is still room to the improvement of "Eras" verification and statistical quality control. Regarding the Quality expenses systems (SCQ) it was revealed that no dairy has fully implemented the tool and a percentage of 33.33% lies in the implementation process. From evaluated dairies, 11% have deployed SCQ and have no plans to implement, the others plan to deploy medium term indicating that the main difficulties of implementation are related to the lack of methodology and believes on the need for high investments.