Evaluate the main challenges faced by a retail enterprise in the Far South of Santa Catarina. (Using the attached) Retail Enterprise in the Far South of Santa Catarina.In search of a more effective insertion in the market, companies adopt many tools to obtain an evenbetter performance. Any differential can be decisive for the company to stand out from thecompetition and one of those is a differential inventory management effective. Studies relating tostocks and its forms of management gain more and more importance organizationally, but still thereare few companies that manage their inventory in an organized manner. Work with stocks becomesinevitable for companies, since it is almost impossible or impractical to determine the demand forproducts and services and with this difficulty, the companies need greater control of inventory andstorage of material. Typically, companies keep many and different materials in stock and theadministration of such material is not an easy task. Items with different patterns of demand andspecific features make the complexity in the administration of materials increase as a result of theneed for differentiated control. This problem can be solved by inventory management, and planningstrategies to be applied to each situation. This work highlights the importance of the application ofthe inventory management in a retail enterprise in the Far South of Santa Catarina, which sellsdiapers, women's clothing, men's and children's, as well as articles for bed, bath and beyond. Thecompany has no control of inventory and has a great deficiency in areas of storage and purchases.The company has management of more than 65 years in the retail market, being 15 years withcurrent administration. With three units, all located at the southern end of Santa Catarina, it is areference in the tissues, female, male and children's clothing, as well as products for bed, bath andbeyond. The company never owned stocks control and has a large disability in storage areas andshopping. The company does not have a strategy of inventory management and preventing puttingit into practice is that there is no control of goods: it is not known the amount of items in stock, ormissing items.As the diversity of products offered wide and in large quantities, some of the obstacles to thisinventory control are the time it would take and the difficulty of doing this survey with the companyin operation. The company already has a system of computerization. In it, there are inventorymanagement tools, which are not used as they should, because the inclusion of the information isincomplete, making the tools unusable. The amount of stockpiled goods are far above what isnecessary and there is no estimate of the value of this stock still. The current administration doesn'tusually perform burning and don't see the large amounts of stock as injury to financial results,because the merchandise stocked now can be sold in the future. To have more space and reduce theamount of parts in the warehouse, opened a store of liquidation, only with some promotionalproducts of previous collections, however, the result did not go as planned: sales were notsatisfactory and stocks were not reduced, generating another new deposit of promotional pieces. Inthe area of sales, customer profile is already known. Most goods sold are easily identified throughmanagement reports, because all the outputs of goods are controlled by the company. Despite theknown profile of customers and sales control, there is not yet a planning of purchases. Purchases aremade to supply what is sold and no inventory control, applications can only be made when themerchandise is a Joker, when the merchandise is running out or when it is missing. On the changesof seasons - spring/summer and autumn/winter-are made larger orders, based on surveys carriedout by the employees who work in the Organisation of the shop and stockists. There is a lack ofinformation of when and in what quantity is required to buy. There is a record of previous orders,however, they are stored in a spreadsheet, separated by suppliers and not by categories, withoutdirect access to the system. Normally payments to suppliers are made within 90 to 120 days, which means that practically all thestock of the company is paid and the company does not have debts with the suppliers. In addition toa partner owner responsible for the part of purchasing and invoicing, three more stockists working inwarehouse and they all perform the same functions: receipt and goods Conference, separation,labelling, distribution models for sales, inventory, surveys organization, as well as assist the sellers insearch for parts. The three employees, only one makes use of the system. The major difficultiesencountered in the sector are the lack of space for storage of the products and the weight load. Withapproximately 211 m², the deposit is located above the shop, and is divided into three large roomsusually called first, second and third deposits. On first deposit are stored articles from bed, bath &beyond, kitchen, curtains and fabrics. In the second are stored the child articles, juvenile, female andmale. On the third deposit are two workstations with computers and are stored winter clothes too,which occupy a lot of space and do not fit in the second deposit: suits, sweatshirts, jackets andleather fibre, in addition to the stockings and handkerchiefs. The two existing bathrooms on thisfloor are unusable for that purpose; a serves as old files and deposit the other stores the pieces thatwill be returned to suppliers. The goods are received in two ways: in the warehouse or at the store.In the store, the merchandise is received only when there are few units and the product is alreadyregistered in the company. In this case, the pieces are usually received by the Manager or by thesales supervisor, that make the Conference the amount received to the note and already offer theproduct for sale, without going through the deposit and not including the goods received in thesystem, or is the inventory control these goods do not exist in the store.However, most of the deliveries are made in the warehouse, where they are received by the broker,which confers on the volume received and directs to the respective storage location. After this firstConference, the received box is opened, all the parts are separated by the reference that comesstandard and accounted for individually. This count is passed on to partner owner, which confirmsthe quantities with the invoice. In the next process, the owner performs the registration of partnernew parts or alteration of the information in the parts already registered and determines the valueof the product. To include the registration of a new commodity, is generated a numeric code specificto each model. Currently the first part of registration is completed with the following information:description of the goods (generally using the same nomenclature that comes standard), unit ofmeasure (unit, weight, metro), reference (factory code specific to each model), cost price, sale price,group (primary Division of categories), cost center (specific products Division), make and year ofcollection. The second part of registration is for the bars, which are the sizes and colors of eachmerchandise, typically registered standard form: all products have equal sizes and colors in thesystem. In old records, the only information registered properly were the description of the goods,unit of measure, and the selling price-tag and year of collection often were not inserted and the sizesand colors followed the same pattern. Spare parts, information is updated only if there is priceupdate. With the registration of goods concluded, begins the process of labelling. Then contain thestore name, product description, code number, barcode and the selling price. This process isaccomplished by a partner, delivering the tags at stockists, which in turn label goods and divide thepieces between the store and the warehouse. The placement of the labels is the longest processfunction held in stock. Only after the distribution of the products for sale that the invoice follows tofinancial clerks.

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A retail enterprise in the Far South of Santa Catarina sells diapers, clothing, and products for…