Gestão de estoques em uma empresa mineradora de rochas ornamentais no Município de Vieirópolis-PB.

Abstract

Inventories are responsible for maintaining the continuous flow of both production as well as the delivery of finished products. In the mining industry, stocks still gain more prominent since the entire quarry operation is located exclusively where the extracted material, which is almost entirely located far from large cities, which makes stock maintenance essential to avoid production losses and lack of inputs for use. Therefore, the present work aimed to identify the main problems in inventory management at a mining company located in the municipality of Vieirópolis-PB. To this end, a bibliographic survey was carried out on this topic, as well as the application of a questionnaire answered by employees involved in the company's inventory management studied. To measure the identified problems, the AHP methodology was used. (Analytic Hierarchy Process). The results showed that the main problems in order hierarchical categories were: Errors in purchase volumes (31.29%); not using minimum stock (29.54%); identification of inefficient items (19.74%); insufficient space (10%); quantities in divergent physical stock and system (9.44%). To this end, it is recommended that inventory control techniques; improve product identification; use of periodic inventories and expand the physical space of the warehouse. The scarcity of research previous studies on this topic brought certain limitations, so we hope that this one contributes the literature on the topic and which can provide greater depth for future work about this sector that is still little studied.