Optimizing inventory control with the ABC method for a metalworking industrial maintenance company

Abstract

The inventory control and design of a warehouse in the metal-mechanical company in southern Tamaulipas aims to optimize the inventory control and planning process in a metal-mechanical industrial maintenance services company, applying a non-experimental, transversal, quantitative, and qualitative descriptive approach and purposeful, with the ABC inventory classification method, which is obtained by carrying out a diagnosis of the company's inventory control, categorization of materials based on their rotation of use through a Pareto analysis, analysis of the rotation of type A, B, and C materials, respectively and establishing safety stocks, finally making the proposal of new policies for inventory control as well as physical distribution in the warehouse according to the ABC classification.