Aluno: InÊs Maria Mendes Da Fonseca
Resumo
Efficient stock management is the cornerstone of success for businesses operating in today's dynamic and competitive markets. In an era marked by globalization, e-commerce, and supply chain complexities, the ability to optimize stock levels, minimize costs, and meet customer demand is vital. This work investigates into the details of stock management, exploring strategies, tools, and best practices that empower organizations to achieve optimal inventory control. By managing stock costs correctly, companies can make significant savings.
In this study, academic stock management models are applied to a fruit and vegetable distribution and sales company. For reasons of confidentiality, the name of the company cannot be revealed. The main objective of this study is to verify the existence of possible cost savings in stock management in this company.
Two models were used in this study: the ABC model, which aims to organize the company's products into three groups, from the products with the greatest monetary impact on the company to those with the smallest impact. Next, the Economic Order Quantity model is used to define the optimum number of units in each order.
Based on academic methods, and, after the application of the stock management methods mentioned above, this study allowed the company to reduce its stock by around 63.61%, when compared to the cost initially predicted.
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