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The inventory management is a fundamental storage and control of stocked items strategy to foment a business success. Excess stock means wasted money and insufficient products cause financial, customer trust and future sales loss. Considering this context, the inventory policy must be well done and executed that the company can improve the service level, optimize the warehouse and the entire demand can be fulfilled. This archive presented the main parameters that were used as a guide to define the inventory policy of a beauty segment manufacture, with an emphasis on safety stock fundamentals and classification of each finished product by ABC XYZ Curve. With the new inventory management proposal, it was possible to obtain a 14% reduction in the volume of excess inventory, a change in the production strategy of the 583 items and an increase in the level of customer service to 95%. The present work exposed the need for a portfolio review with a multidisciplinary team and the elaboration of performance metrics are fundamental to find opportunities for stock improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Municipal Inspection Service (SIM) aims to protect the health of the population, inspecting products of animal origin produced in the municipality, carrying out actions to combat illegality in irregular places. The aim of the study was to understand the factors that hinder the accreditation of supermarkets to the municipal inspection service in Caxias do Sul/RS. To identify the criteria used by COPAS-POA for the sanitary control of facilities and equipment in warehouses for meat and meat products, a documental analysis of the legislation in force in the municipality of Caxias do Sul/RS was carried out. This analysis enabled the creation of a questionnaire that was applied to managers of 10 supermarkets, in order to identify the main challenges and difficulties encountered in registering these establishments with the municipal inspection service. The results obtained were grouped in spreadsheets, where the frequencies and percentages were generated. The results indicated that, on average, 45% of the companies believe they are adequate between 70% to 100% with the required documentation, requested equipment and builtup areas. For 80% of the companies, the biggest challenge is related to the financial investments necessary for the installations to adapt to the criteria established by COPAS-POA, such as: construction of a cooling chamber for finished products, a section for the preparation of natural wrappings and a section for preparation of condiments. For most companies, the investment would be more than R$100 thousand reais. However, this adequacy is essential since the criteria established by inspection services, whether at municipal, state or federal levels, aim to ensure safe food for human consumption, regularizing all stages of production of animal products in establishments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Proper purchasing management seeks to reduce losses, obsolescence, or deterioration of inputs, which are essential for the economic and financial balance of companies and institutions. Given the above, the objective of the study is the application of the Economic Purchase Lot model in a stock of veterinary drugs of an Educational Institution, aiming to acquire the correct amount of materials in each order and meet the demand. The research methodology is classified as exploratory and quali-quantitative, identifying with the use of the ABC curve the main items stored in the veterinary medicine warehouse, being applied in a single product. It is characterized as a case study, as it was applied in a single institution. The results of the application of the ABC curve classification model and the calculations of the economic purchase batch show the importance of knowing the ideal quantity of the product to be ordered, being in batches with 800 units, with 12 purchases throughout the year and 6% in the increase of the storage cost about the optimum point. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aimed to analyze the warehouse sector of an IFES in order to propose improvements that can be applied to the storage of materials by an IFES warehouse sector, with the aid of quality management tools. Therefore, the methodology consisted of a qualitative approach of applied nature, as the objective is classified as exploratory and the procedure adopted is the case study. The data collection techniques applied were bibliographic survey, documentation, and unstructured interview. For data analysis we used document analysis, Ishikawa diagram and 5W3H tool. The diagnosis made through process mapping and Ishikawa diagram diagram showed that the Warehouse has flaws in its management routines because it does not adopt methods widely used in studies related to materials management in the area literature as well as normative instruction. from the public sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research focused on the process of importing containerized cargo, specifically the prime granite product drained by a port in Northeastern Brazil in order to identify performance metrics in the interrelationship between the port and bonded warehouse agents. Interviews were conducted with agents responsible for the process of importing prime granite and mapping the product chain and surveying the activities carried out by the port and the bonded warehouse. Thus, it is possible to apply the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR) logistics approach, which aims to improve the supply chain. In this work, the process and performance sections of the SCOR model are highlighted. The activities carried out in the prime granite chain were systematically structured and the corresponding metrics were identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Toyota Production System (STP) is a standard for managerial actions to improve production systems. Close up system, one face for the exhaustion processes in product processes, technological software with the identification of seven loss. In simple production systems, honey-producing companies, their own, usually do not elaborate breeding techniques, have their origins, and are just supplementary income activities. However, honey production represents one of the activities that provides the greatest opportunities for family farming. With this, the study of the theme is used as loss through the Toyota Production system in an apiary and perform as propositions for improvements. The justification for the method is to improve the productive system of a program to increase the profitability of a company and to serve as an example for other energy producing companies, such as STP for its production system. The losses are related to the transport, the movement, the stock and the wait, the output of videos is minimal between the colias and the warehouse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The welfare of captive animals has been extensively discussed, involving production, animal experimentation and zoos. Captive animals can suffer from a lack of space and from a lack of physical and mental stimuli in this kind of environment. Birds have a high cognitive ability, which makes them very susceptible to stress by captivity. The stress experienced by birds in that environment can cause stereotypes, feather picking, pecking bars and walls behavior, and overly aggression behavior, indicating their low quality of life. Due to the growing concern about these factors, several studies have developed techniques for evaluation of stress. Noninvasive methods as behavioral monitoring and physiological assessment of adrenocortical activity using droppings and feathers have been helping researchers and institutions to understand the processes associated with stress. This knowledge enables the improvement of birds' quality of life with correct maintenance practices and, consequently, environmental enrichment techniques are gaining more space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The state of Ceara excels in the national scene as one of the largest producers of honey, what makes it important the monitoring of the quality of bee products processed in the warehouses. The objective of this study was to characterize honeys of Apis mellifera L. from seven apiaries located in the region of Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. The honeys were analyzed as for apparent sucrose, reducing sugars, acidity, pH, moisture, insoluble solids, ash, coliforms at 35° and 45 °C, yeasts,molds and Salmonella spp. According to the results of physic-chemical, all honeys evaluated where in accordance with Brazilian legislation, with significant effect at 1% probability for all physic-chemical parameters evaluated, demonstrating the heterogeneity of these characteristics. The samples analyzed were not contaminated by coliforms at 35° and 45 °C and Salmonella spp., showing a low number of yeasts and molds. According to the results of the parameters specified by legislation, the beekeepers performed the management, the harvesting and the processing of these bee products as recommended in order to obtain a qualified product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a multi case study done in four supermarkets located in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, focusing the analysis of the impacts with the use of Distribution Centers on the operational results and the service level of the enterprises. Data was collected based on the size of the physical structure of the stores and the Distributions Centers, as well as the geographic position, business relations with suppliers, operational eficiency and services offered to customers. Store and Distribution Center managers and a controller were interviewed to answer questions that clarify the logistics operation of their companies. A bibliographical study was proceeded to base the analysis of the dissertation, as well as quantitative data supplied by institutes of statistics and economy. The study presented positive conclusions that the use of Distribution Centers in supermarket stores results in improvements in sourcing, distribution and operational eficiency. It was noticed the need of a better professional management to reach the totality of the expected impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: to characterize the auditory profile of workers at a Meat and Derivative Warehouse of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. Methods: it is a transversal study where 53 workers of this warehouse had been evaluated, with application of questionnaire and analysis of audiometric examinations. Results: from the evaluated employees, 5.66% showed induced auditory loss for noise. The exposition time did not relate with induced auditory loss for noise. The most common auditory symptoms had been difficulty to understand words (13.2%) and difficulty to bear the intense sounds (11.3%) and the not auditory symptoms had been headache (16.9%) and irritability (11.3%). Significant difference was observed (p < 0.05) when correlating the individuals with normal and modified hearing with the presence of humming, complaint about listening abilities and difficulty to talk in noisy environments. Conclusion: the results reveled that individuals with audiometries suggesting induced auditory loss for noise were more vulnerable to humming, also showing more difficulty to talk in noisy environments. However, the others auditory and non-auditory complaints were raised in both groups, regardless of the existence of auditory loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the qualitative and quantitative losses in post-harvest of grain, in this research was evaluated fungi and mycotoxins contamination in whole rice (Oryza sativa L.) during the stationary drying and storage system. Samples were collected in a period of sixty days in two heights of the warehouse during storage. The initial sample presented 5.4x104CFU g-1; the contamination increased significantly during drying and storage, up to 105CFU g-1. Fungi contamination was different inside the warehouse with higher contamination in the upper portion. The more abundant fungi genera were Aspergillus and Penicillium, A. flavus (26.3%) and P. commune (19.1%) which presented higher incidence. Aflatoxin B1 was produced by four A. flavus isolates, but mycotoxins were not detected in the samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]