COVID-19 e seu impacto nas importações de uma indústria calçadista brasileira

Abstract

Taking into consideration the relevance of a proper supply chain management for the success of operations, the current work aimed to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the import logistics of a footwear industry from Serra Gaúcha, proposing suggestions in order to mitigate existing problems. To do so, a mixed survey was carried out, using the qualitative approach to characterize the processes and the descriptive quantitative approach to analyze the costs and times related to these processes. In the first stage, the qualitative one, the company's air imports were analyzed, describing the logistics overview in terms of origins and destinations, imported volumes, material development flow and deadlines stipulated for each mode of transport. In the second stage, the quantitative descriptive one, costs and logistical efficiency were compared to previous periods, making it possible to measure the pandemic impacts on the company's import process. With the comparative analysis of the three scenarios, the objective was to verify whether the results obtained by the company in the new forms of logistical import management were positive, in addition to guiding future actions by the company. It was found that there were positive results generated from the mitigation actions implemented by the group's import sector, making it possible to contain part of the impacts that were caused to the operation with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]