Evaluación Agregada: Una Innovación en la Gestión de Inventarios en una Empresa de Alimentos de Consumo Masivo

Published in: Innovation and Development for the Americas: Engineering, Education, Research and Development: Proceedings of the 8th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: June 1-4, 2010
Location of Conference: Arequipa, Peru
Authors: J.A. Rau Álvarez
Refereed Paper: #52

Abstract

The objective of inventory management has two aspects that are opposed. First, it requires minimizing inventory investment to allocate resources to various investment proposals. On the other hand, we must ensure that the enterprise has adequate stock to meet demand, both internally and externally, so that production and sales operations function properly.
Often, commercial and financial areas will have to deal constantly by the fact that the first products need to respond quickly to customers, while the other must not have money tied up as it represents an opportunity cost. It is essential to know strategies and techniques relating to its administration and control to balance these two aspects. It must achieve a minimum investment determined to provide the necessary amount of inventory that is able to meet the various demands on time. Exchange curves can be used to identify concrete actions for managing inventory to identify clearly the costs involved in having merchandise stored or scarcity of it