Plan de mejora para optimizar la logística de transporte de la empresa Banatrade para la salida de contenedores desde las fincas para la exportación.

Abstract

This research project generates an improvement plan to optimize the transportation logistics for the departure of containers from the farms associated with the company BANATRADE located in the city of Machala. Contingent strategies are analyzed to speed up the delays that generate a negative impact, it is contextualized in the present time taking as background references, concepts on commerce, logistics, transportation among others. The proposed improvement plan was carried out taking into account an internal and external analysis of the transportation companies, these data were used to carry out a better research planning objectives and activities to be developed. For the following research a quantitative approach has been used, the same that allows to focus internally in the company applying theoretical methods such as inductive, deductive, hypothetical deductive and modeling. It is worth mentioning that for the following work, primary and secondary sources of information were applied, in addition to the application of interviews and surveys conducted with those people who perform the function of transporting containers to the ports either in the city of Machala as YILPORT or in the city of Guayaquil as CONTECON, This allowed us to determine that the company has an automated system for the transport guides, the carriers are not trained, they are only informed, the Machala-Guayaquil road is inconvenient for the transport of containers and the management of shifts is an opportunity for the transport companies.