Abstract
UD. Patriot is one of the company that is engaged in the production of shoes
located in Mojokerto, East Java. In order to expenditure savings, especially on
inventory management costs, the company must make efficiency. Therefore the
company must performing control in all parts inventory costs released to avoid
waste cost that is not appropriate. In especially company manufacturing, inventory
costs have considerable influence on company's total operating costs. Companies
often have a shortage of inventory frequently caused by external factors that are
difficult to control such as weather, shipping delays and so on. It may cost the
company, due to increase in inventory costs. Therefore the control on the
appropriate inventory management can efficient spending on inventory
management of the company.
The purpose of this study is to understand and analyze the raw of the
materials inventory control system at UD. Patriot, as an alternative method of
determining the best lot sizing techniques in order to maintain smooth production
and improve efficiency, and to determine its performance in terms of raw material
inventory cost savings. Lot sizing method used in this research is to use the
Material Requirement Planning approaches Lot for Lot (LFL), Economic Order
Quantity (EOQ), and Fixed Order Quantity (FOQ), while supplies of components
are analyzed include the amount of raw material purchasing, ordering frequency,
the average amount of inventory, total cost of ordering, total cost of storage, and
total cost of the inventory.
According to calculations used by the company methods in 2013, company
issued a total cost of Rp. 381.193.472,- shoes inventory. Meanwhile, according to
the calculation of the LFL, EOQ, and FOQ each produces total inventory cost of
Rp 31.090.000,-, Rp. 221.864.921,-, Rp. 161.749.181,-. From the analysis, the lot
size Lot For Lot (LFL) techniques generate the lowest total cost of inventory so
good LFL method applied to UD. Patriot shoes company.