Inventory management for a logistics operator / Gestão de suprimentos em um operador logistico

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

As a result of the globalization process, the competition among the enterprises has increased so much, forcing them to search for best market practices to warranty their survival in the long term. The objective of this thesis was to apply tools to a better inventory management in a logistics operator, located in Campinas (SP), that serves a big company located in the same region. It was applied demand forecast techniques trying to understand the future demand aiming a better production programming to the logistics operator. But due to a very irregular demand of the system, it was showed that the forecast methods here applied had not helped to establish the best way to manage the case study company production and the inventory. Due to that, it was applied an inventory continuous review methodology to assure the improvement of the service level served to the client. It was established some parameters as safety inventory, reorder point, maximum inventory, and production quantity of each of the ten packages the logistics operator needs to reoperate. This methodology was effective and seems to generate good results

ASSUNTO(S)

stock control oferta e procura supply and demand inventory management logistics controle de estoque logistica logistics operator

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