Mejora del proceso de abastecimiento e inventario en el área de compras de la empresa Productos Alimenticios Santillana S.A.S

Abstract

Productos Alimenticios Santillana S.A.S. is a Colombian company dedicated to the production and marketing of bakery and pastry products, founded more than 30 years ago, its star products are dulce de leche/arequipe and condensed milk, backed by several awards at various fairs such as the Fifth Food Fair of the Americas in Miami, Florida; likewise, over the years it has managed to make business alliances with suppliers abroad where it exports its products, especially to Central and North America. The professional practice was carried out within the logistics management, specifically in the area of national purchases, the university intern is assigned certain primary functions such as the creation of purchase orders from all areas of the company, monitoring of these, presentation of new suppliers, among others, as well as new functions that arise as support to the accounting area, through the new software system acquired by the company in order to optimize the processes entrusted by the area. By virtue of the weaknesses that were identified within the area, it was possible to observe notable errors or inaccuracies in the purchase orders, therefore as a practitioner, the database was complemented in Microsoft Excel which has important information of the area for decision making, this redesign of the database results in a suitable follow-up, the decrease of errors in the purchase orders and in the inventory and supply area who are the main beneficiaries with the information provided.