Indicadores para a logística de transporte no plano de desenvolvimento preliminar na formalização de arranjos produtivos locais

Abstract

In a contemporary world the concept of globalization creates new forms of productive organizations such as Arranjos Produtivos Locais APL s (Local Productive Arrangements LPAs), which contribute, among other things, to the social-economic and technologic development of the context to which it is linked, especially if it is located in a developing nation. In Brazil, a country with such characteristics, local government created a specific sector dedicated to the APL s, driving several states to adopt them. In Amazonas State, establishing a APL observes federal rules, meaning that it follows a Plano de Desenvolvimento Preliminar PDP (Preliminary Development Plan), especially in regards to its current indicators which are: access to domestic and external markets; training and enabling, governance and cooperation, investment and financing, quality and productivity and technology and innovation. However, these indicators present themselves insufficient, also due to the fact that they don t consider local characteristics. Therefore they tend to result in conclusions, unfortunately in posteriori, that turn impracticable to form an APL, driving to several kinds of losses such as waste of time, financial and human resources, work, among others. Also, it is clear that the indicators currently taken in consideration do not directly include neither the logistics, for the transport factors, which are vital to the distribution of local production in a region such as Amazonas, in which the different cargo modes, especially waterway, have difficulties. This fact allows us to present this problematizing question: What indicators, with emphasis in transportation logistics, must be added to the existing ones, in a way to irreversibly contribute to the creation of APLs? In the advent of such problematization, the objective of this paper is to propose the inclusion of transportation logistics indicators to PDP, considering the local geographic characteristics that help to increase efficiency in the process of the formalization of APLs in the State of Amazonas.Therefore, it helps to identify and classify this research as scientific, exploratory and descriptive at the same time. Moreover, it is bibliographic, qualitative and, above all, applied research. In this last case because it teaches us the scientific methodology, the research aims to contribute to practical ends in relation to what is studied. The found results show the following transportation logistics indicator: distance from origin to destination, infrastructure, travel time, vessel designs, cargo-lifting equipment and point of distribution/sales. Such indicators also support a matrix. The main conclusion is that the indicators show specificities, mainly geographic, that exist in Amazonas and, therefore, may contribute to PDP in the process of APSs formalization