Importancia del control de inventarios para alcance de competitividad en empresas de dispositivos médicos

Abstract

The efficient management of inventories linked to logistics management has gained great importance during the last decade. This is how companies nowadays seek to leverage their operations in agile tools for the management of inventories that allow them to maximize profits through the reduction of operating costs, associated with the maintenance of high volumes of stocks in the warehouse.

The above proposes a great challenge, and it is the very fact of knowing which is the ideal tool for inventory management and operations management. This document throughout its extension exposes a series of models that are based on theories for this purpose, making it clear that there is no bad or good management system. It is a task that each company must carry out, determine which is the ideal model of inventories that fits their needs and thus make the best decision.

Within the document are cited authors of great stature such as Aníbal Mora, who discounted the importance of inventory management, and how these allow a company to expand and have a greater participation in a globalized market, where only companies that manage to break traditionalist paradigms they will be able to survive.

In accordance with the above, a series of theories is made available to the reader to make decisions regarding the discounts that suppliers offer on purchases in large volumes, considering that the costs absorbed by the maintenance of said inventory can not exceed the discount granted by the provider. To verify the veracity of the theories exposed within this document, a real case of implementation of an inventory management system is exposed. This reveals through the real data presented in its statement of results, the increase in operational efficiency that the OSEOMED SAS company has after the implementation.