Supplier selection is a crucial factor for ensuring compliance with the circular economy’s principles. Existing approaches often overlook the integration of circularity and risk assessment in supplier evaluation, limiting their effectiveness in achieving sustainability goals. This paper addresses this gap by applying suitable criteria and proposing a structured decision-making model for circular supplier selection. The model innovatively integrates Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques with risk evaluation, providing a comprehensive framework for assessing suppliers in circular supply chains. By advancing the theoretical understanding of circular supplier selection, this research contributes to both academia and practice, reinforcing the alignment between supply chain decision-making and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), particularly Target 12.5.

Strategic planning is an organizational process, the purpose of which is to conceive, formulate and manage the strategies implementation in the enterprise. The implementation of strategic planning involves the implementation of a set of actions aimed at taking the organization from a known position to a more desirable position, creating sustainable competitive advantages. This study deals with substantiating the role and importance of organizational strategic planning in the development of the organization using a systems approach. Systems engineering consists of a multidisciplinary and collaborative engineering approach, the purpose of which is to derive, develop and verify the effectiveness of decisions or the functioning of the system throughout its life cycle to satisfy the needs, expectations and desires of stakeholders. The purpose of this article is critically to analyze the Andrade method by comparing the processes and tools used in this method with those obtained as a result of traditional strategic planning. The methods were compared by developing a case study conducted in a science, technology and innovation institution operating in Brazil and annually conducting strategic planning cycles, using traditional methodologies for managing and analyzing the effectiveness of the organization and defining strategies for its development. The paper using the engineering system, carries out the comparison of the applied phases and tools with the offers in the model. The obtained results prove disadvantages of the traditional strategic planning process in comparison with the model proposed by Andrade. The application of the proposed model would allow to obtain indicators, different from the results of traditional strategic planning, in terms of forming another set of strategies and tools to manage the organization’s development. The paper concludes that the model proposed by Andrade is more complex than the traditional one. It indicates the expediency of organizations using other tools to analyze and formulate company development strategies in the context of strengthening their competitive advantages and achieving strategic goals. Keywords: Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning Model, Strategic Management, Systems Engineering.

Purpose: This article aims to compare the impact on process optimisation with multiple responses of two different mathematical modelling methods: Ordinary Least Squares Method (OLS) and Symbolic Regression Method (SR). Methodology/Approach: Data from the literature were selected from the design of experiments for a process with multiple responses. Using these data, models were obtained that represented each response as a function of independent variables using the OLS and SR techniques. Then, the Desirability method was applied together with the Generalized Reduced Gradient (GRG) in order to obtain the process adjustment that would lead to the optimisation of the responses. Findings: The findings illustrate that the SR modelling technique yields models with superior predictive capabilities when contrasted with the OLS technique. Throughout the optimisation process, it becomes evident that the adjustments in the process diverge, even though the desirability function's value exhibits negligible variation. Research Limitation/implication: This research considered only an SR algorithm and a process with two dependent variables and two independent variables. Originality/Value of paper: No works were found in the literature that reported the use of the Age-Layered Population Structure (ALPS) algorithm in modelling processes that contain multiple responses. Furthermore, no comparison of this method with the OLS method was available. Category: Research paper.

Purpose: This study aims to list the managerial implications arisen from an interaction between a brewery and a Brazilian government agency grounded in the Lean principles of value co-creation through a case study.Design/Methodology/Approach: Empirical data on the actors were collected through questionnaires with managers and documents shared as they were being filled out. Their content analysis was carried out according to Bardin (2011).Originality: This is the very first study carried out to evaluate the benefits reaped from an interaction between a brewery and a Brazilian government agency grounded in the Lean principles of value co-creation.Results: Managerial implications involved in value co-creation are elucidated in respect of agro-industrial services provided by the brewery and a Brazilian government agency. Thus, Integration Strategy, Protection mechanisms and Growth opportunity constitute key elements in networking orchestration while providing agro-industrial services.Theoretical and methodological contributions: The factors affecting information and knowledge were shared between partners for improving the brewery production chain. The concept of value co-creation allowed overcoming issues of innovation and providing the actors with better services.Management contributions: Once having identified the three basic elements of a successful cooperation, as well as managerial implications concerning the actors involved, this study assists managers and researchers in developing strategies to overcome the obstacles faced in the provision of agro-industrial services based on the Lean principles of value co-creation. Furthermore, supporting factors in making decisions towards value co-creation are exposed so as to stimulate innovation via value co-creation and network orchestration.

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In Brazil, in recent years, the Intellectual Property (IP) rights and cooperation between Scientific and Technological Institution (STI) and company have intensified interest, despite the process of knowledge generation and transformation of this knowledge into innovation and wealth be in an embryonic stage. The IP concerns the branch of law, which deals with the legal protection granted to all human mind creations, such as inventions, for example. Legal protection technologies according to IP rights, as well as the management of these protected technologies in an STI, is the responsibility of Technological Licensing Office (TLO). One of the challenges encountered by TLO is concerning the management of IP to use multiple mechanisms to shape decisions for the protection of new technologies, considering the TLO innovation strategy. From this perspective, to define the organizational processes that will enable the protection of generated creations under the TLO, it is essential to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the IP management. Thus, the aim of this paper is to present a process model for the technologies protection based on IP, contained in the a TLO portfolio, as a way of leveraging technologies transferred, invented or developed by STI to a receiving organization.