Utilização da gestão de estoques para redução de desperdícios em uma empresa do setor de panificação

Abstract

This paper aims to depict the search for reduction of waste generated by overproduction in a productive process of the bakery sector of a supermarket in the city of Ituiutaba, MG. In order tosolve the problem, the technique of action research was used, which combined with concepts of management, planning and production control and quality management, enabled the success in forecasting sales of the company’s main products. The key factor responsible for overproduction in this process lied in the lack of implementation of a demand forecasting technique. Since this forecasting did not exist, production was not planned, causing excesses in production and, as a consequence, excessive costs. The implementation of production and waste control spreadsheets, once items were produced and reached their expiration date, was essential to obtain the sales quantity of some of the items in the production mix. Also, the calculation of the costs of production of each item from their revenues, was done to obtain the most expensive products and most wasted by the company through the ABC analysis. Finally, future sales of these items were estimated through demand forecasting techniques, while some management concepts were applied throughout the study.