Controle de estoques: um estudo de caso em um supermercado de médio porte no sertão alagoano

Abstract

The present work had the objective of analyzing, through a case study, the inventory control of a medium-sized retail supermarket in the Alagoan sertão. In order to support the objectives of this study, a descriptive, bibliographical and field research was developed through a study carried out in the company. Besides the fundamental theoretical basis, the data were collected before the application of a semistructured questionnaire being applied to two employees responsible for the purchasing sector of the company studied. The objective of this temporal cut was to identify how the stock control process carried out by a medium-sized supermarket in the Municipality of Santana do Ipanema is carried out. Through the analyzes of the results it is concluded that there are deficiencies demonstrated by the confrontation between the concepts and the practice, this is noticed in relation to the knowledge of the inventory policies. The lack of use of mechanisms able to contribute to the control of minimum inventory and inventory turnover were not shown to be effective in avoiding the lack of products in the supermarket. Another point to note in stock control is that not all the information generated in the system is correct. In a company the right information is of paramount importance. The information posted to the system would correctly prevent the visual conferencing of products in inventory.