Buying smart is very important if a company wants to achieve good results. Therefore, the procurement area should be strategy-oriented and well structured. With the arrival of technology, what used to be bureaucratic and time-consuming chores is n...
New regulations, legal obligations and inspections increase the demand of companies for supplier and third party management One of the toughest challenges in the procurement area is to promote good supplier management. This occurs because the supp...
You cannot lose sight of procurement lead time when monitoring your operations. In a competitive market, every detail makes a difference. And to keep a business’ economic sustainability and its customers satisfied, companies are pressed to k...
When we must define clear goals to monitor the business procurement process, there is nothing more adequate than KPIs – or Key Performance Indicators, used to measure different vital points in the procurement department. According to Marcos Roig, ...
Vital to business engagement with suppliers, contracts accrue in the same way as business needs do. And with time they become more complex, more interdependent, and more difficult to manage. When two companies wish to do business, contracts specif...
“Healthy mind in a healthy body”: the Latin phrase “mens sana in corpore sano”, from the works of Roman satirist Juvenal (55-127 AD), expresses the balance between body and mind. When used in the corporate universe, that ph...
Digital transformation is leading a new industrial revolution. More and more, the list of 4.0 technologies such as big data, analytics, machine learning, business intelligence and cloud computing has given rise to a whole new range of opportunitie...
Collaboration between both ends of a business deserves to be nurtured and is key to reinvent a long-lasting and promising coexistence By Marcelo Pereira, Supplier Management Director at Mercadoe By all accounts, the prelude to collaboration...
In a time like ours, when ads often clutter the area of on-line pages, it’s obvious that visibility is a major concern for brands. However, as Carlos Viali, Consultant at Mercadoe, explains in his article (“How to get more visibility i...
To increase confidence in the market and business integrity: this is how corporate governance operates, making companies consistently comply with internal and external requirements, laws, standards and regulations. Meeting these obligations isn...
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