Utilização de estoque de segurança em um supermercado da cidade de Arcoverde-PE.

Abstract

The market competition is increasingly fierce and a study of the products storage process can generate competitive advantage for the company that can manage them more efficiently in order to reduce costs and can provide attractive prices to customers. The present study aimed to determine how the sizing of safety stock can affect the performance of a small supermarket in the city of Arcoverde / PE, using the ABC classification. Thus the present study was developed through an exploratory and descriptive research, using existing analysis software in the supermarket data, qualitative and quantitative way, and through these, was created and sized safety stock. The results presented highlight the contributions that the determination of safety stock, along with the use of the ABC classification, offer to facilitate inventory management, which occurs through the reduction of inventory cost, minimization of stock out, dividing the items into classes according to importance, among others. It is recommended for future studies the use of control tools used in this work, as well as adding to these other types of control and inventory management tools, or even use these other tools in isolation.