Traceability guide in the logistics processes of small banana exporting companies

Abstract

The lack of control or disagreement in the logistic processes creates barriers and disadvantages in the operations of small exporting companies. For this reason, the objective of the researched topic is to propose a traceability guide in the logistic processes of banana exports to demonstrate its incidence in the commercial and financial area and its delivery to the international market. According to its purpose, the research is applied, according to its context it is field research, according to the control of the variables it is experimental, according to its temporal orientation it is longitudinal, and according to its level of generality it studies a specific situation. The theoretical method used is the systemic method, which focuses on the elaboration of the traceability guide, and the empirical method is the study of documents and surveys. The sample is finite because the study is known and is delimited in six small exporting companies of Machala, the same that will help to obtain information to present the results of the current situation of traceability in export operations in small banana exporting companies and thus focus on the development of the guide to prevent the problems that usually occur.