Gestão de estoque suportada pelo desenvolvimento e aplicacão de um software em uma empresa varejista do ramo de cercas e construção

Abstract

Nowadays, Argentinian companies find themselves in a very delicate situation due to the macroeconomic crisis the country is living in. Generally, family-small-sized businesses are not professionalized enough to cushion the consequences of this crisis situation and, consequently, they are the most affected ones. Inventory management is a fundamental aspect to achieve competitive advantage in retailers and it can be used to increase their rentability. Although inventory management techniques would eventually mean an improvement on companies’ performance, the main challenge is to maintain their use over time. Digitalization of certain processes and the application of software is a way to make management easier. This paper as one of its objectives to develop a system which automates inventory management processes and is used as a tool for decision making in a little retailer of fences and construction’s materials. A few software available in the market were analyzed, some features were identified and taken into account during process of the software developing, which was made through Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic. Some inventory management techniques were implemented and integrated into the system. Throughout its use and as a result of it, inventory policies were defined for each type of product. This project achieved to develop and implement the software within the company and accomplished to get inventory management better.