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CELLULAR UNITS FOR STOCK MANAGEMENT APPLIED TO A SMALL SUPERMARKET

The purpose of this article is to describe a contribution of production engineering through the management of stocks in a case study of a small supermarket in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. This essay was developed based on the ABC classification, the economical lot of purchase and the supply decisions. The strategy adopted was to divide the stock into four cells of products that would work as smaller management organizations, helpful to analyze the costs and the sales behavior. The results of the intervention have reveled a rise on the percentage of the sales from the cell unit containing bigger margins of contribution, even though there was not any kind of variation on the volume of the total sales, being achieved a reduction on the stock costs of 1.87% and a rise at the operational margin of 12.17%.