Gerenciamento de atividades logísticas: um estudo comparativo em transportadoras de cargas da cidade de Campina Grande/PB.

Abstract

Logistics corresponds to the flow of materials and information in organizations, being a differentiator for companies that receive and deliver their materials at the time and place. Therefore companies cargo carriers gain notoriety. This paper aims to describe how companies that perform activities trucking, installed in Campina Grande, manage your logistics to meet the market, specifically a case study on the cargo carriers Transportadora de carga Rápido Figueiredo and Transportadora de carga Marajó. The research used a semistructured interview structured to conduct interviews with those responsible for logistics management in these companies, most notably, the administrative assistant of the Transportadora de carga Rápido Figueiredo and manager of Transportadora de Cargas Marajó. The results obtained allowed to individually characterize the work of the two companies and perform comparative analysis to identify the main differences and similarities between these companies. Thus, the main results, it was found that the two companies use IT in their activities and both need to outsource equipment and manpower to operate its services. To implement the strategic plan he is tied to your franchisor guidelines in the case of ransportadora Rápido Figueiredo and his mother regarding Transportadora Marajó and the two cargo carriers operational planning is performed by the employees.