Planejamento e controle da produção na pequena empresa: estudo de caso de fatores intervenientes no desempenho de um empreendimento metalúrgico da cidade de São Carlos-SP / Production planning and control in small business: case study of intervening factors in the performance of a metallurgic company in the city of São Carlos-SP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The aim of this research was to identify related factors to the operational production planning that intervene in the performance of a small metallurgic company. As specific purposes, it was intended: to identify the existence of politics and practical planning in the company as well as procedures of its formalizing; to describe the characteristics and activities of the operational production planning and intervenient factors in its performance; to identify specific organizational characteristics of the small business that influence the functioning of the operational production planning. Several researches detach a positive relation between planning activities and enterprise performance in the scope of small businesses, which motivates the study of this subject. The small business, due to its specific characteristics such as restriction of resources (human, financial and material) and its limited negotiation approach over suppliers, competitors and customers, demonstrates difficulties in its management, such as to plan, control and program the production in order to get a good performance. To achieve the established goal, a case study was developed in a small metallurgic company in the city of São Carlos/SP, in which the researcher belongs to the employees board of the company as the supervisor of PPC, added up to a bibliographical review about the subject. This made possible the confrontation between the theory and practice and obtainment of conclusions regarding the subject studied. As main results it was observed that: the operational planning lacks information and analyses for decision making; a companys performance is influenced by many factors and it is not possible to separate planning and performance from these factors, a significant gain of performance was verified between the years 2002 and 2006 in the company, however this work could not assert that the carried through changes and the factors of the operational production planning, PPC, were influential in the performance of the company. The reason why this affirmation is disabled is the fact that other factors not analyzed in this study were brought out as the biggest impact in performance, for example, the action of the competitors and the unavailability of resources of short term in the company.

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small business specificity planejamento e controle da produção performance desempenho operational planning especificidades da pequena empresa planejamento operacional production planning and control

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