How can technologies meet future supply chain needs?

Although we can’t predict the future, we can state that the supply chain will be more and more digitized, connected and integrated. In the coming years, the sector will be driven mainly by robust technologies such as blockchain, artificial i...

Women in the Supply Chain: Luana Oliveira, from Flora, talks about female leadership in the sector

Luana Oliveira, Head of Indirect Procurement and Outsourcing at Flora, is our second expert invited to the ‘Special ME – Women in the Supply Chain’ event. She told us that she’s from São Paulo, daughter of northeastern migrants, ...

Aline Dias from Wickbold Shares Career Insights and Procurement Challenges

The ME Women in Supply Chain Special is just getting started. We invited Aline Dias, Procurement Manager at Wickbold, to talk about her career, achievements, and main challenges in the industry. With 17 years of experience in the field, the execut...

Women in the supply chain and positive impacts for businesses

In historical terms, the procurement area is composed mostly of men, but this reality is changing already. According to Gartner, women respond today for 39% of the workforce in the supply chain. The survey also points out that only 14% of them hol...

What is e-Procurement and how it can automate the management of your area

e-Procurement is a digital solution to manage the procurement area, by automating processes such as orders, quotations with suppliers and approvals, thus reducing the operational burden on the buyer and procurement teams. With the use of such tool...

Automation in procurement and its impacts for B2B business processes

For some years now, the procurement area has been contributing significantly to savings and competitiveness of businesses. As the sector evolved over the years, processes of the operational kind – which are often bureaucratic and time-consuming – ...

The leading trends for supply chain in 2023

In 2022, the blockings in China and the conflict between Russia e Ukraine were the key impacts on supply chains worldwide. To keep operations running and reduce the chances of shortages, the businesses had to rethink their strategies, in order to ...

ESG grows in procurement and becomes a priority for businesses

  What are the positive and negative impacts that your supply chain generate on the environment and society? It’s through these and other questions that your department can start planning actions aimed at ESG in procurement – an acronym...

5 mistakes in procurement management that can impair your results

Every day, the procurement area gains prominence in companies, thanks to its strategic importance in business growth. However, some errors in procurement management can hinder the speed of its evolution. There are some myths that still haunt procu...

5 trends for the procurement area in 2023

The last year stood out for the return of face-to-face meetings and key events. The new work modes, both remote and hybrid, proved to be an alternative in the crisis, and are still a strategic path for many businesses. And year after year, the pro...