Avaliação de uma Nova Metodologia de Gestão para Estoque em uma Unidade Produtora de Refeição da Cidade do Natal/RN

Abstract

The increase in out-of-home meals in Brazil has intensified the opening of new Meal Production Units and their survival depends on knowledge of market requirements, the quality of the final product and the services offered, associated with competitive prices. Therefore, inventory management is necessary so that there are no high costs with products, seeking to reduce the total capital invested by the company in the acquisition of inputs, in addition to avoiding the lack of products for the customer. Given the importance of the planning, management and control sector within the Meal Producing Units, it is essential that they have within their administration tools that help in management, as the lack of it directly affects production and consequently its costs. Within this context, the objective of this work is to analyze the effectiveness of a methodology for stock management in a commercial UPR in the city of Natal/RN. This is a practical observational, quantitative exploratory study, which was carried out in six stages: authorization application, analysis of the UPR management before the implementation of the proposed project, development of the management methodology, training, implementation and comparison of before and after of implemented. After analyzing the results, it was possible to observe a general reduction of about 63% of waste due to lack and excess of inputs. Therefore, the proposed methodology reached its objective, when applied it was verified its effectiveness in the control and monitoring, making the stock management assertive by minimizing waste and contributing to cost reduction.