Optimización de los costos de stock dentro de la cadena de suministro

Abstract

The objective and importance of inventory management is to confirm and/or verify the quantity of stocks available in a company through physical material counts and to compare the accumulated data with the database and the actual available stocks. Some of the main questions we need to answer before we believe we handle excellent inventory management is “Does your inventory get the strategic attention it deserves? Do you know which items should be stored? And why? Do you know how much you need of each item to avoid stock breaks and loss of sales? Do you have solid principles to keep your inventory under control?” (Phipps, S. 2024, 26 february). By answering most of these questions as a company you can ensure that you handle or not a number of tangible competitive advantages representative to the competition. To achieve the objective of inventory optimization, five basic steps can be taken into account, which are to eliminate obsolescence, determine the composition of inventory, define priority control, calculate the optimal inventory per item and finally optimize logistics costs.