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Seven tips to avoid mistakes when choosing your company’s suppliers

Choosing the right suppliers is crucial to leverage the results of your business. This is quite a challenge for companies, particularly in the case of direct procurement, that is, related to the marketed product or service. Therefore, before makin...

Quebra-cabeça representa os quatro pilares do e-procurement

What are the four pillars of an e-Procurement solution?

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...

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What are the types of B2B procurement and their characteristics?

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...

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The BANI world and the antidotes for it in businesses

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...

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What is ESG and how the supply chain can help you achieve it

Regardless of the industry, sustainability is in everyone’s agenda. The actions taken today will define the future of our planet. People, businesses and governments must mobilize and adapt their choices and activities to good environmental p...

Cloud computing: which are the benefits offered by the cloud to manage B2B procurement?

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...

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5 skills to be a leader of the future in B2B Procurement

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...

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10 reflections for supply chains in the future

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...

Operation engagement: how to lead procurement teams remotely

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...

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4 supply chain trends for 2021

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...