Amaggi

🏆 Inbrasc Award 2025 winner — Supplier Management category

Strategic partnerships, leading-edge technology and ESG impact: that’s how Amaggi, one of Brazil’s largest agribusiness companies, is transforming supplier management. The shift, built on data, governance and cross-functional collaboration, has Linkana as its key partner — turning around a process that used to be manual and fragmented.

The challenge: 70k suppliers and little visibility

Before the change, Amaggi dealt with manual, non-standard qualification processes; no structured performance tracking; a bloated base of 70k suppliers (many inactive); simplistic onboarding criteria with no category differentiation; and difficulty aligning ESG with compliance and data-driven decisions. In practice, this meant reputational risk, weak governance and low supply-chain efficiency.

The turnaround: a centralized supplier management area

The starting point was creating a centralized area, sponsored by senior leadership, working cross-functionally with procurement, compliance, ESG, technical teams and a risk committee. Over 10 months, the focus was designing the ideal process before picking technology — that maturity was essential to the success of the partnership with Linkana.

Linkana’s technology as enabler

With the process in place, Amaggi chose Linkana as its tech platform to: reduce risk with category-specific profiles; automate qualifications; monitor compliance, financial, fiscal and ESG signals; rank suppliers by risk and performance; surface diversity insights; and ensure real-time updates with leadership visibility.

Concrete results

• Qualification time: 7 days → 1–2 days
• Supplier base: 70k → 23k
• Risk monitoring: 100% of critical suppliers tracked
• High risk: significantly reduced, with mitigation actions
• ESG: active diversity monitoring via Linkana Insights

Conclusion

The Amaggi case shows how efficient supplier management goes well beyond document qualification. It becomes a strategic axis — generating value, mitigating risk and driving ESG impact. With governance, real-time data and the right partners, supplier management stops being a bottleneck and becomes a competitive edge.