Operations & Production Management

The objective of this article was to study how companies manage their inventories of finished products, satisfying their customers, reducing costs and bringing financial returns to investors. For this, a bibliographic review was performed on finished product inventory management and a real case of a management model used by a refinery was used in order to evaluate the finished inventory management practices of finished products in a production system and results achieved. As a conclusion, it was possible to observe that the analytical model used by the company in the management of its stock allows it to do so optimally, to have greater control and monitoring of its inventory, generating many benefits, such as better financial results.