Lucas Sousa is an experienced Supply Chain specialist with more than seven years of professional experience in purchasing, supplies, logistics, and warehousing. His expertise includes deep knowledge of raw material and productive and unproductive input planning and purchases, service outsourcing negotiations and contracting, transportation (inbound and outbound) hiring, IT equipment, machinery, maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), and Facilities management. Sousa has led and worked on multiple projects that resulted in cost reductions, product standardization, renegotiation and creation of new contracts, and Shared Services Centers or centralized purchasing. He is knowledgeable in Strategic Sourcing methodology, RFx, project management methodologies, Total Cost of Ownership, contract management, KPIs and SLAs, e-auctions, market analysis, spending analysis, procurement transformation, inventory management, and people management, with specific experience in industrial, automotive, and healthcare companies. Sousa is proficient in using TOTVS (Protheus versions 11 and 12), SAP, and Oracle systems. He has completed a graduate course in Supply Chain Management, a Postgraduate course in Strategic Purchasing Management and a Master in Project Management, in addition to a Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management and Logistics, and Technical courses in Logistics and General Mechanics (Fabrication processes) at IFSP, Universidade Paulista, UNINOVE, and Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho, and Dom Bosco Technical School, respectively. Sousa coordinated Smarkets Intelligence's purchasing area, worked as a consultant in Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain, and held Buyer roles at Smarkets Intelligence, Stefanini, Optitex Indústria E Comércio Ltda, and Sulfisa, being also an Assistant of Purchasing, PPCP, and Logistics in Teknia Group.