An Inventory management model at the postharvest area of an alstroemeria production line at C.I. Carrizoza Navas & Ltd. Co.

Abstract

Today the companies’ flexibility in conditioning their policies to the needs of the market ceased being an academic novelty to become an everyday practice of organizations, for this reason several tools are designed with which the company is able to address this situation. For C. I. Carrizosa Navas, a floriculture sector company, the constant change in demand in some months of the year makes it difficult to manage suitable policies. The inventory system modeling represents the performing policies for days in which you work one shift to meet the demand of tobacco flowers a day, as its validation will be useful to make decisions when demand is changing in so-called seasons. It models developments of Work in Process (WIP), finished goods inventory (INV) and inventory of products pending (PEND) and will provide in every moment of the planning period information on the status of these. Eventhough this type of systems have been studied and highly researched, they constantly perplex those who have the difficult task of changing the policies to fit reality.