Diseño y desarrollo del módulo de inventarios para un ERP académico

Abstract

The inventory module is part of the main project called "Design and development of an Academic ERP" of the LEGIOS research hotbed of the Augustinian’s University, the ERP focuses on the manufacturing modules, which has different modules of activities in the in the industry, inventories are the focus of the hotbed, but why is manufacturing and inventories so critical? Engineers must have the ability to strategically manage, with control methods, the production of an industry and thus provide an availability of goods and services. Inventory management constitutes an effort to reduce costs and improve customer service, however, its application is not usual, so the design and implementation of an adequate inventory management system for physical products is proposed. complex if you will. The continuous review model indicates that a new order must be placed when there is a certain amount of units left in the inventory, this model is also known as the reorder point method and since an inventory implies an economic investment, it is usual that its application is find in those items of higher price and importance, to establish the hierarchy of the products you can go to the ABC inventory classification model which allows you to prioritize and establish an order or a classification so that it is possible to establish the products that in your mix of sales and price represent 80% being these category A, 15% the products belong to category B and the remaining 5% to category C, these percentages correspond to a proposal that each company has the power to establish its own policies in terms of percentages and respective categories. In the development of the project you will find a matrix that will allow you to simulate and determine the demand (MPS), the lead time and the standard deviation where, according to the organization and its goals, they will choose what level of service they want to offer and it must be greater than 50 % and thus be able to generate safety inventory levels, which is the minimum that under normal conditions should be available for the product in question, the order or reorder point that sends the alert for a new order, and the service assurance inventory that under normal conditions it is the maximum that should be in stock of the product. The management of the inventory module represents for any company an element of immense importance due to the economic values invested in inventories of raw materials, product in process and finished product, which is why this module provides the status of levels, suggests the launch of production orders, and predicts the level of service that can be delivered to customers. One of the main purposes is to support the training of future industrial engineers at the Augustinian’s University, create tools little developed in the academic environment with the application of typical inventory models and document the procedure for using the module.