Restrições e perdas no contexto do transporte rodoviário de cargas : um estudo de caso

Abstract

The road transport activities has improved in regarding of market requirements for premium services, what includes speed, reliability, with compatible costs. Some conditions that affect companies that operate in transport sector induces to engage efforts in management process improvements, intending to position themselves in a competitive environment. Knowing the processes in a systemically way enables to make more assertive decisions, and to do so, understand the constraints arising from market adversities and/or losses coming from organizational procedures are essential keys for organizational management improvements. In this perspective, this dissertation aims to understand the constraints and losses in the context of road transport, taking as adage on Theory of Constraints and on Toyota Production System, therefore, was developed a study with applied research essence, qualitative approach, exploratory and technical procedure case study. Through the categorizing, it was possible to identify and analyze information that in the last instance, met the objectives proposed in this study. The elements with most influx were the breakdown in communication between the tactical command of the headquarters towards the operations of each strategic business units, the management of process in an efficient and effective way between units and losses in regarding to damages, measurement errors and waywardness of goods. The results obtained aim to the business and academic environment, by identifying constraints and losses, improvements on making plausible decisions in the organization and scientific contribution.