Métodos para mejorar la eficiencia y la toma de decisiones en la gestión de inventarios

Abstract

An efficient inventory control system requires the application of control and analysis methods in correspondence with the relative economic importance of each stored product. The objective of this article was to contribute to the efficiency and decision making in the management of inventories of the bakery company "Pan Van" of Riobamba city, Ecuador from the application of two methods that allow the decision making in the inventory management: the ABC method for the selective control of inventories with a multi-criteria approach and the Mini-Max inventory policy. The research used the method of analysis and synthesis to determine the essential elements of the object of study at the theoretical level, and the interpretation of the results obtained. Group work techniques and SWOT analysis were also used to determine the organization's main strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Among the main results obtained are the multi-criteria ABC classification and the determination of the inventory standards of selected products of the baking company under study

Keywords

• provisioning
• logistics
• method ABC
• inventory policies