Procurement plays a key role in businesses and faces complex challenges, mainly related to the need of decreasing costs and to buyer productivity. To render the procurement area more strategic, buyers must be freed from manual, bureaucratic and de...
The procurement sector plays an important role in a company’s business. To act strategically, professionals who intend to work in this area must then understand the simplest concepts, such as the difference between direct and indirect procur...
Created in American military schools more than three decades ago, the acronym VUCA – volatility (V), uncertainty (U), complexity (C) and ambiguity (A) – pointed to the market situation at that time and indicated, for the armed forces, the required...
The use of cloud computing is growing very fast worldwide. This is what indicates a recent study by Gartner, the largest IT research firm. The study shows that 70% of organizations that use cloud services intend to further increase their investmen...
Nowadays, one of the biggest challenges for future leaders in procurement is the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. In this new scenario, changes happen very quickly and are often unpredictable. For the supply chain, among the...
Definitely, the previous year wasn’t for amateurs. Even businesses most prone to change had to adapt – resilience and innovation were the keywords – and several sectors were forced to transform themselves, supply chain included. With the gro...
Even before covid-19 times, remote work was already a trend in the world, although in a feeble way. With the arrival of this pandemic, the home office trend skyrocketed and many businesses had to adapt to such new reality in a rush. For many peopl...
2020 was a year distinguished by the need of adaptation for everyone. In view of the limitations imposed by the pandemic, it was necessary to let go some old habits and create different ways of working, learning, meeting, exercising, and many othe...
Sustainability isn’t just a fad. The theme is linked to a sense of obligation, being an urgency for all of us. The search for practices that can impact the environment positively and promote conscious production and consumption will contribu...
Year 2020 showed us that uncertainties are the only certainties we have. It showed also that establishing goals and plans is good, but that things may not go as expected, or even happen at all. Year 2020 taught us a lot of things and, before our v...
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