Software y métodos de control: herramientas claves para el manejo de inventarios.

Abstract

Organizations know the importance of correctly controlling their inventories through adequate organizational monitoring, a key element to achieve objectives and increase competitiveness efficiently and effectively. The present research aims to determine the control method and software as tools applied by micro-enterprises in inventory management, for this purpose a study with a quantitative approach was proposed with a descriptive, non-experimental scope; Having as object of study the population of the city of Machala, where 107 micro-enterprises were taken as a convenience sample. In data processing, the IBM SPSS STATISTICS 23 tool was used, resulting in deficiencies in the application of technological tools such as control methods and software; prevailing the use of control sheets or kardex and the registration of the data in the excel application, continuing with the empirical ordering, that is, according to the criteria or experience of the administrator or manager; This is due to the fact that a large part of these organizations do not have adequate personnel for its coordination and management. It is concluded that inventory control presents weaknesses that must be corrected for the organization to have competitiveness in the market by automating the processes in the inventory system.