La gestión de inventario y su incidencia de la productividad en la ferreteria y perneria Distrom S. A.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to improve the management of the inventory process of the company Distrom located in the city of Machala, with the objective of analyzing the inventory management by identifying the processes that the hardware store has to determine its impact on the profitability of the company, having as main problem the poor management of its inventory, as well as the amount of stock that must remain in stock (hangers) to meet the commercial demand; which has generated problems in relation to the fulfillment of orders by customers, as well as loss of customers and productivity; This situation has caused a decrease in sales and customers, through a descriptive-inductive methodology where information was collected from different scientific articles and the research instruments used were the interview and the observation sheet, it is referred to the person in charge of the branch and the warehouse manager of the hardware and pernería Distrom, The conclusion was that the company does not have policies and procedures manuals, also does not have a designated staff for the different responsibilities that occur within the warehouse area, this means that workers do not have the specific knowledge of the techniques to be applied within the department, the company does not perform a periodic physical inventory control which represents a significant risk for the company.