Diseño, evaluación y análisis financiero de una política de administración de inventarios para la empresa Baldosines Alfa S.A.

Abstract

This work aims to design and implement an inventory management policy, in order to minimize costs, and increase profitability. For this purpose, Baldosines Alfa S.A. Company has been chosen as a case of study. ABC classification was used in order to identify products with higher turnover (type A). For these products, its demand type and probability distribution were identified. Estimated demand was predicted using Montecarlo simulation through Crystal Ball software. With these results and supportive theory was possible to design and implement an inventory management policy for goods type A, for which the optimal quantity to order q* was found. Finally we can conclude that the single-period model is the one with describes better the characteristics of inventories of the company, therefore an inventory management policy must be based on this model. While applying this model it was obtained as a result an increase in profitability indicators and a reduction in inventory costs of products with higher turnover.