Avaliação das práticas adotadas na preservação de cargas ante a ameaça de roubo no modal rodoviário: o caso Martins

Abstract

The present project has the Fleets Management as the concentration area and it is inserted in the line of Market research and Supply Chain specifically, in the moment of physical distribution of goods. It has as purpose the evaluation of the adopted practices for the preservation of loads, in the case of the cargo theft, in the modal road. So that, a research is made in the existent literature in order to obtain a better understanding concerning the physical administration of fleets, identifying the characteristics of the cargo theft in Brazil and, still, verifying the protection actions which are recommended, by the specialists, for the treatment of that threat in the road transport. Then, based on a case study done in the wholesaler distributor Martins Comércio & Serviços de Distribuição S.A, settled in the city of Uberlândia-MG, the statistical data of the risks management section is analyzed. The data is compared with the information taken from the literature and the similarities are verified. Then, semi-structured interviews with managers of the study area are applied to identify the real processes and tools used for the treatment of the risk and the obtained results with such practices. Based on this material, the conclusion is that, even though the cargo theft is an adverse threat to the internal controls of the company, the risks management can reduce the number of occurrences and diverted values, and is also an efficient contribution to improve the results operated by the logistics.