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In the current world, every company tends to improve its competitiveness regarding its costs. This also applies to Circuit Foil - producer of copper foils - which wish to enhance its management of articles kept in the warehouse to ensure both operational and maintenance activities.
Different complementary solutions are discussed in this thesis to enable the company to decrease its costs whereas it increases its management tools to strengthen the Purchasing Department.
The first solution explained consists of providing an analyzing file and method to run each quarter to be aware of stock variations.
Secondly, a classification procedure has been set up to increase standardization and enable workers to use more efficiently the SAP searching tool.
Then, new theoretical safety stocks, reorder points and lots-size have been computed using best Supply Chain approaches.
In addition, a tool has been provided in a Visual Basic version to help the company to run analyses much more quickly.
In conclusion, results of the work are discussed and a list of suggested improvement is given.

ABC analysis --- Cash-flow --- Coverage --- Gauss --- Inventory --- Lot-size --- Normal Distribution --- Pareto --- Production --- Reorder Point --- Safety Stock --- SAP --- Service Rate --- Stock --- VBA --- Working Capital --- XYZ analysis --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Production, distribution & gestion de la chaîne logistique