Análise dos estoques de um comércio de produtos agropecuários

Abstract

In the corporate environment companies find barriers in the organization and treatment of inventories of their products sold. For a long time there was the use of manual inventory control processes, which could lead to reduced productivity and increased costs, as well as unnecessary movements. Many sciences have come up to solve problems with inventories, and like any philosophy, there is a long way to improve and discover new practices and solutions. The present work has the objective of analyzing the organization of inventories of a small company that sell agricultural products located in the city of Dourados-MS. Around the problematic of which treatments apply to the products according to their classifications within the inventory organization was carried out the bibliographic revision where the inventories were conceptualized and their methods of treatment and control. After the bibliographical review, a case study methodology was applied, which consisted of unstructured interviews with the local staff, collection of general information, registration of photos and collection of data on some of the products sold. With all the necessary information gathered, the data was processed with qualitative analysis in which the general characteristics of the company's stocks were presented, creation and comparison of two ABC curves: one for profit and another curve for quantities sold and, finally, the presentation of suggestions through the 5W1H tool on what can be improved in organizing your stocks. It is concluded that there are several ways to manage a stock, all depends on the goals established by the company, but as important as setting goals is to know and record the values of each process to have clarity in their activities and achieve business success.