IMPROVEMENT IN A COMPANY'S EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL LOGISTICS PROCESSES

Artigo apresentado no Cimatech da Fatec SJC em dez/2023

Abstract

Logistics plays a fundamental role in the success of companies, both in internal and external logistics processes. The company considered to carry out this work operates in the field of developing technological products for the defense and national security sectors and the problems raised pointed to lags in external logistics processes. In this work, the following criticalities were highlighted: unnecessary storage expenses, unnecessary movement of materials and lack of supplier diversification. This work aims to make improvements to these processes presented in order to guarantee cost reduction, optimization of procedures and analysis of new suppliers. Therefore, to guarantee the solution and reduce unnecessary costs, improvement tools were applied to logistics processes. The results of this implementation ensured efficient inventory management, where the requested material is located effectively. Therefore, unnecessary travel was avoided and the qualification of suppliers guarantees practical demand and quality in product delivery.