Propuesta de un modelo de reposición de inventarios para una empresa distribuidora de productos electrónicos en la ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Abstract

The purpose of this degree project is to present an inventory replenishment model that helps improve inventory management and as a result produces an improvement in the financial statements. The project is carried out to help the ABC company, importer and distributor of technological items, since it has been operating with an imprecise management of its inventories. The company did not have a model or a guideline to calculate the propitious quantities of items, but instead did it by simple deduction, or depending on the orders that arose at the time. For the elaboration of the model to be implemented, we use information of the existing inventories replacement models and historical data on purchases, sales, inventories, etc., provided by the company in question. Through these data, calculations were made to understand how the market to be treated behaves, and how these behaviors should be responded before, that is, for example, to understand which items are in greater demand or in which seasons there are higher sales, of so that the required quantities can be estimated more accurately. Finally, the results of improvement in the management of the inventories of the ABC company, prior to the implementation of the model, are evidenced by comparing the inventory turnover rates of the previous years with the index calculated for the following year through the projection of purchases and sales of items.