Diseño de un sistema de control de inventarios ABC para ECUAGRO de la ciudad de Riobamba provincia de Chimborazo

Abstract

The present research work was a design of an ABC Inventory Control System, for the company ECUAGRO in Riobamba, Chimborazo Province. It has been aimed to improve the management of the inventors, allowing to optimize their costs and establish the importance of each product to increase profits and provide adequate service to customers. The research techniques that were used were the direct observation for the visual verification of the daily activities that are carried out, later a survey was applied to the Manager of the company to know how the administrative activities and the processes of the management of the activities are carried out. In turn, the survey of employees who have access to the inventory and warehouse was also applied, which allowed us to find vain deficiencies in the processes because they do not have an adequate system that provides real quantities in sporadic times, and do not handle control documents internal as Kardex to know outputs and entries of products, which causes that there are stored products that cause unnecessary costs that cause the over-supply and shortage of certain agricultural products that have expiration date, inadequate inventory turnover and decrease in sales for the loss of dissatisfied customers consequently, in the elaboration of the system, the application of the ABC method was considered, which helped us to establish by categories the products and the method of economic order quantity to establish the adequate quantities of supply. In this way, inventory indexes were also applied to improve them. Thus. The manager is recommended to implement a method that will allow him to have an adequate control of his inventories and warehouse for the optimization of his resources.