Propuesta para gestión de inventarios en supermercados ubicados en el Valle del Cauca

Abstract

The present work shows the development of an “inventory management proposal for supermarkets located in the Cauca Valley” which aims to propose an inventory management according to the current situation of each supermarket with the interest of achieving an improvement and having a good inventory control, which aims to reduce costs, product losses and improve identified weaknesses. The work was divided into three specific objectives which correspond to: elaborate a diagnosis of the current processes of purchasing and sales of supermarkets, develop a proposal for an inventory management system in supermarkets and evaluate the inventory management proposal in financial and qualitative terms. In the first objective an initial diagnosis was made to know the current situation of each supermarket, the classification of product families, checklists were applied and the organization of the products was registered. In the second objective, the ABC classification was developed, and inventory politics were proposed. In the third objective, the proposal for inventory management was also evaluated financially and qualitatively as well as bank quotes.