La gestión de inventarios en las pymes del sector de la construcción.

Abstract

Inventory management is a tool that helps companies to manage and control their products correctly by establishing clear policies, methods and procedures. The objective of the research was to determine an inventory management model for the efficient management of materials of SMEs oriented to the construction sector, where a quantitative and qualitative approach was used, the study population were Pymes related to the construction sector within the province of El Oro; selecting through the application of a non-probabilistic purposive sampling, 42 Pymes. The information was processed using the statistical program IBM SPSS 21, having as results that many companies manage their inventories using Excel and even do it manually; the implementation of a software would help to automate and unite processes and information, for this they should acquire more knowledge and new tools for better control that will allow a reduction in time and costs that can be generated by carrying out this process empirically. The proposal for the elaboration of a process diagram is established, representing a deterministic model that helps to carry out a process in an orderly and detailed manner with established policies that allow a periodic review of inventories for constant improvement.