Mitigação do risco no processo de pagamentos da Grünenthal Global Financial Services

No fim de 2016 foi criado, em Lisboa, o novo centro de serviços do Grupo Grünenthal. O grupo tem negócio em mais de 20 países espalhados tanto pela Europa como pela América Latina. O objetivo principal deste centro é, principalmente, centralizar os serviços financeiros do grupo todo, em dois sítios apenas, em Aachen, Alemanha, na sede do grupo e, em Lisboa. Durante os anos de 2017/2018 foram feitas grande parte das transições, mas, com estas, surgiram bastantes desafios. Alguns destes desafios não foram completamente superados, uma vez que o pouco tempo disponível sempre foi um grande fator decisivo. Devido a estes desafios não superados, existem ainda alguns processos internos, nomeadamente na área dos pagamentos/tesouraria, que ainda se destacam pelo risco e falta de automatização associadas. Após feitas todas as transições (primeira fase de implementação de um "Shared Service Centre") e, o centro estar a funcionar autonomamente, faz sentido fazer um estudo acerca da harmonização dos países e onde o risco dos pagamentos é mais elevado para o grupo. Os objetivos principais deste projeto passam por encontrar os problemas que haja nos processos internos, descobrir as devidas soluções e apresentar sugestões de melhoramento de certos processos, tendo sempre em conta os fatores críticos de sucesso de um centro destes. No fundo, pretende-se fazer uma análise geral dos processos de pagamentos e sugerir mudanças para a mitigação do risco interno. Para isto, é feita uma investigação acerca dos conceitos de risco e de "Shared Services", de seguida, uma breve descrição dos processos atuais utilizados pela Grünenthal Global Financial Services, e, por fim, serão apresentadas as soluções/mudanças viáveis no processo.By the end of 2016 a new "Shared Service Centre" was created in Lisbon for Grünenthal Group. Grünenthal has business in more than 20 different countries spread by Europe and Latin America. The main goal for this creation was to centralize the group’s Finance Departments into two main places, Aachen, Germany, where the company’s headquarters is located, and in Lisbon. During the year 2017/2018, most of the transitions were made, and, with them, a lot of challenges came up. Some of these challenges were not completely overcome due to the time pressure which was a big factor for some of the transitions. Due to these challenges, there were some internal processes, like in the treasury/payment department, which still have a lot of risk and lack of automatization associated. After all these transitions are concluded (first phase of a Shared Service implementation), and the centre being autonomous, it makes sense to analyse and study the general harmonization and where the risk is higher for the group. The main goals of this study are to find problems with the internal processes, investigate for possible solutions, and suggest a better and viable process, being always aware of the critical success factors of one of these centres. To summarise, it is pretended to analyse the general process of payments and suggest changes with less risk associated. For this, an investigation about the concepts of risk and Shared Service Centres will be done, then a brief description of the internal process of payments currently used by Grünenthal Global Financial Services, and, in the end, there will be a presentation of viable solutions/changes to the process

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data

NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal species that (1) transposed a geographical barrier and (2) were voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into the Neotropics. Our data set is composed of 73,738 historical and current georeferenced records on alien mammal species of which around 96% correspond to occurrence data on 77 species belonging to eight orders and 26 families. Data cover 26 continental countries in the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico and its frontier regions (southern Florida and coastal-central Florida in the southeast United States) to Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay, and the 13 countries of Caribbean islands. Our data set also includes neotropical species (e.g., Callithrix sp., Myocastor coypus, Nasua nasua) considered alien in particular areas of Neotropics. The most numerous species in terms of records are from Bos sp. (n = 37,782), Sus scrofa (n = 6,730), and Canis familiaris (n = 10,084); 17 species were represented by only one record (e.g., Syncerus caffer, Cervus timorensis, Cervus unicolor, Canis latrans). Primates have the highest number of species in the data set (n = 20 species), partly because of uncertainties regarding taxonomic identification of the genera Callithrix, which includes the species Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix kuhlii, Callithrix penicillata, and their hybrids. This unique data set will be a valuable source of information on invasion risk assessments, biodiversity redistribution and conservation-related research. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper when using the data in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us on how they are using the data