Por:
Hernando Rojas Blanco
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Fecha:
2019
Distribuidora Merka Union, is a family business, founded 24 years ago in the city of Bogota in order to
distribute and sell groceries, food, toiletries and pet food. The company has grown over the years, which is why the need to implement an inventory management policy has become apparent. Customer service is currently being affected because the company has a large number of shortages and over-stock
in the inventory, avoiding the company's growth and profit, which, in the last two years, analyzed in
different periods, it has lost on average $ 150,000,000 and, as it is a family business, represents a loss
of significant magnitude.
In this order of ideas it was necessary to raise the following general objective: to present a proposal for
improvement in the management and administration of inventories to the Merka Union Distributor,
based on models that apply to the nature of the business