A gestão de estoque das empresas de varejo de pequeno e médio porte de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais: estudo sobre as Técnicas de Gestão de Estoque aplicada pelas empresas objetivando reduzir suas perdas e sobras

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the best business performance that can be achieved by small and medium-sized retail businesses of supermarkets through inventory management, using techniques for the replacement, control and shipment of goods. Is adopted focused on the importance of the control and management of goods stocks in supermarket retail, specifically in the small and medium company operating in this segment. The main issues related to the management of the supply chain in retail distribution stages, with the main shaft using specific techniques adopted as a strategic tool in the decision-making process. The study focuses on small and medium retail company in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, their strategies and modes of operation and seeks to relate certain business performance indicators with the level of replenishment of inventories of goods in each company of the sample. After the interviews conducted by the author of this work, based on research questionnaire, he realized that the four (04) supermarkets small and medium-sized respondents, 03 (three) are willing to make investment in the implementation of structured systems for Inventory Management. But the four (04) Owners of supermarkets interviewed, 02 (two) still prefer themselves take all decisions, based on some limited information available, following their intuition or "savvy" business. Only two (02) of the sample companies in the survey keeps track of its inventory by item and use reports provided by their computer systems to aid decisions on the replenishment of these stocks. We conclude that there is a lack of specialized staff of professionals in inventory management in almost all of the companies studied, and there is a lack of computerized inventory management systems, making it difficult and control of losses and waste in the operation of the store.