Análise de gestão dos estoques: um estudo de caso no varejo de ferragens

Abstract

The current scenario of the market presents itself as challenging and competitive, so companies have to look for ways to remain relevant but also to reinvent themselves in order to compete, good management of the stock keeping unit (SKU) can can prove to have key results, through the use of strategic decisions, the aim is to make managing materials more efficient, by saving on new purchases and avoiding the misplacement or complete material loss of preexisting materials in the inventory. On this matter, our study was conducted on a company named Fermaq, located in the town of Chapecó, in the state of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. Our main objective was to analyze which changes could be made in order to improve the stock keeping in this company, this research being applied as it was conducted, this study seeks to improve the overall quality of the unit. As our goals are described, through the use of our investigation, this experiment can be classified both a field research as well as a controlled study, due to the use of both methods. Throughout the course we interviewed the staff as well as the business owner, but also made an in-depth assessment of the data we had in the form of internal reports. The significance of this study to the aforementioned company can be attributed to that, in conjunction to other measures and tools tools to stock management, it can improve upon it's efficiency, and therefore helping it compete on the market, while also contributing to the academic community as a research material and reference for further work, giving support for researchers to come. Through the course of this work, we were able to identify and describe problems found, as well as to offer options to improve the internal practices on stock keeping, improving the purchase method while also improving how the material is stocked and managed, including a proposed method of organising the internal layout of the company