CBA

Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio: efficiency at industrial scale

CBA, one of Brazil’s leading aluminum producers, faced a growing challenge: hundreds of strategic suppliers, manual qualification processes and a long lead time before a vendor could deliver. The Linkana partnership changed that — radically.

Linkana’s impact at CBA

• Qualification time: from 42 to 8 days — an 80%+ reduction
• Real-time risk monitoring with automated public-data signals
• Standardized criteria by supplier category, replacing custom spreadsheets
• Single, auditable flow shared across procurement, compliance and operations

Why it worked

CBA started by structuring the process before chasing technology. Once the playbook was clear, Linkana automated the heavy lifting: continuous monitoring, document gating, risk scoring. Procurement stopped being a bottleneck and became a data-driven function.

“With Linkana, supplier qualification time at CBA dropped from 42 to 8 days — a reduction of more than 80%.” — Thiago Duque, CBA