La gestión de activos como herramienta para la toma de decisiones de inversión en la compañía concesionaria del Aeropuerto de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Airports require proper equipment to provide a good level of service for their users, comply within their contractual and regulatory framework and simultaneously, face permanent technological advances to which the airport industry is exposed. However, investments in special equipment require large amount of funds which generally involves to select the investment with greater benefits in the future or to reduce costs for the company. Therefore, it is important to perform financial assessment in physical asset investment along with the search for a balance between their cost-risk-performance. This research tackles the study of physical asset management with the aim of evaluating its use as a tool for investment decision-making, in the most critical physical assets at Guayaquil airport. A non-experimental cross-sectional design was used with a combined qualitative and quantitative approach. Using tools such as interviews to a panel of experts, a criticality matrix, which initially allowed to identify the four most critical equipment, was obtained. Afterward, a fifth asset was added. With this results, five equipment replacement proposals were prepared, based on the net present cost criteria during their life cycle. Three scenarios were developed for the proposal replacement of a medium criticality equipment, proposing the acquisition of a new asset as the most convenient alternative, even though from the financial point of view it is not the lowest cost alternative.