Zero Inventory And Discount Policies In Colombian Companies

Abstract

Technological and commercial advances have allowed an evolution in the logistics models of companies in the midst of the industry 4.0 era (Díaz-Martínez, Hernandez, Salinas, & Cadena, 2021), although these changes have been significant in large-scale processes or series productions, due to the purchasing power of these organizations in the improvement of processes with investments in innovation and control thereof; Simultaneously to this reality, every day the minors or small producers are disappearing from the market, as a result of their low competition or scarce human and financial material, essential to enter the globalized context demanded by the new commercial era. As a result of these previously mentioned factors, some authors highlight that "One of the great challenges that organizations have is to have a decisive level on the part of their human capital, in such a way that this allows a more accelerated and competent adaptation to the environment" (Muñoz, Hermosilla, Delgadillo, & Echeverria, 2021), the retail trade, has been strongly affected by these new issues of production management and logistics, since large commercial chains are attracting large volumes of consumers, either due to low prices or quality of service, according to figures granted by DANE at the end of February 2021, "The decrease in retail trade was 7.8% compared to 2019, where the sectors with the greatest impact stand out, such as the manufacture of clothing with 16% ; The micro markets or food sales centers in the neighborhoods with 18% ” (Diaz M. , 2021). Taking into account the problems described above and the social and economic phenomenon, which has arisen as a result of the lack of competitiveness of the retail sector with respect to large companies, the design of this review article was proposed, which has as objective establishing the factors of incidence in the current logistics phenomenon of the country and the region. To achieve this purpose, a descriptive methodology of a documentary type was implemented, which according to (Sampieri, 2014).