Amaggi

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Inbrasc Award — Supplier Management category

Strategic partnerships, cutting-edge technology and ESG impact: that’s how Amaggi, a Brazilian agribusiness giant, is revolutionizing its supplier management. The transformation, built on data, governance and cross-functional collaboration, highlights the partnership with Linkana — a turning point for what used to be a manual and fragmented process.

The challenge: 70,000 suppliers and little visibility

Before the change, Amaggi dealt with: - Manual, unstandardized due diligence processes; - No structured supplier performance tracking; - A bloated base of 70,000 suppliers, many inactive or outdated; - Simplistic onboarding criteria, with no differentiation by category; - Difficulty aligning ESG with compliance and data-driven decisions.

In practice, that meant reputational risk, lack of governance and low supply chain efficiency.

The turning point: structuring the supplier management area

The starting point was creating a new centralized area, with leadership support, working cross-functionally with procurement, compliance, ESG, technical areas and a risk committee. For 10 months, the focus was designing the ideal process before chasing technology. That maturity was essential for the success of the Linkana partnership.

The new structure included: - A Supplier Portal to unify pre-onboarding; - Category-segmented due diligence with specific criteria; - Continuous real-time risk monitoring; - Performance indicators updated automatically; - Critical vs. strategic supplier split; - Full supplier lifecycle management.

Linkana’s technology as an ally

With the process structured, Amaggi selected Linkana as the technology platform to: - Reduce risk with category-specific profiles; - Automate due diligence; - Monitor compliance, financial, tax and ESG dimensions; - Rank suppliers by risk and performance; - Generate diversity insights via the Linkana Insights module; - Ensure real-time updates and visibility for senior leadership.

Concrete results

The partnership generated significant gains, in both governance and efficiency:

Before-and-after indicators: - Due diligence time: 7 days → 1 to 2 days; - Supplier base: 70,000 → 23,000; - Risk monitoring: 100% of critical suppliers tracked; - High risk: significant reduction with mitigation actions; - ESG: active diversity monitoring via Linkana Insights.

ESG and real social impact

Amaggi’s transformation wasn’t just operational. It strengthened the company’s commitment to social and environmental impact: - Development of local and community suppliers; - Diversity monitoring (women, minority groups, small businesses); - Differentiated assessment of critical categories such as biomass.

Lessons and recommendations

Amaggi’s success with Linkana is replicable, but requires attention to key points: 1. Don’t start with technology. Structure the process first; 2. Engage all areas from the start; 3. Communicate clearly with suppliers; 4. Classify suppliers based on real risk; 5. Have committed leadership.

Conclusion

The Amaggi–Linkana case is a clear example of how efficient supplier management goes far beyond document approval. It becomes a strategic pillar of the company, 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.