A Logística de Materiais de Consumo e Bens Permanentes: Um Estudo de Caso em uma Fundação Localizada no Sul de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of materials and heritage management in the public sector, focusing on logistical and administrative processes, which permeate this theme and play a strategic role in the use of financial, temporal and human resources. Therefore, project sectors were analyzed, shopping and warehouse of a Supporting Foundation to a university located south of Minas Gerais. This foundation manages the financial resources of the projects in force at the university, being responsible for the acquisition, receipt, storage and distribution of consumables and permanent goods requested by the project coordinators. As for the methodology, a descriptive qualitative approach was adopted. Data collection was carried out through direct and participant observation for six months, between the months of June and December 2017, and subsequently, interviews were conducted with members of the sectors studied, using the content analysis technique to analyze the results. data collected Throughout the research it was noticed that logistics in the public sector is not a very studied area, being often placed at an inferior level compared to other topics, which directly impacts the efficiency of the service provided. Therefore, the work is expected to help raise awareness of the importance of materials and heritage management for the maintenance and efficiency of public institutions' activities.