Propuesta de mejoramiento para el proceso de gestión de inventarios en una comercializadora de calzado en Bogotá combinando el enfoque Harrington y las técnicas de control de stock

Abstract

The present degree work was developed in order to design a management proposal that allows controlling the inventory stock in a Footwear Trading Company. For the development of the project, real information from a shoe trading company in the city of Bogotá was used, which was listed as a leader in the footwear business in 2018 according to Portafolio magazine (2019) along with two other companies in the sector. However, throughout the document there is no mention of the commercial name or its business name at the request of the company. Therefore, the information in the document was handled anonymously in order to maintain its Good Will. As for the methodology used for the development of the project, engineering tools were used such as: the problem tree, which was used to diagnose one of the flaws presented by the company, in addition to using other techniques such as inventory recoding, ABC analysis for the categorization of items, analysis of the installed capacity of storage space, security stock management and reorder point On the other hand, it was decided to combine the Harrington methodology with the different techniques of stock control, in order to establish a guide or steps to follow to assimilate and implement in the best way the change of the process in the inventory management, and of This way reduce resistance to change in all areas of the company.