LATIN AMERICA creation of an internal audit area ; it ’ s PPI ’ s first year working with an internal auditor working directly with PEMEX ’ s internal audit area . The third pillar is the incorporation of Counselors that are independent to PPI ’ s Board of Directors , and they will provide the vision of conducting business in a wider and more impartial way . The fourth and last pillar is the design and implementation of an Internal Control System for which the mapping of every process was carried out . This was done with the purpose of identifying every one of the risks and controlling them . In addition , KPIs ( Key Performance Indicators ) were documented and / or elaborated , and they measure the efficiency of every one of said controls . “ From the point of view of Compliance , we ’ ve implemented and set in motion a very robust and integral system trusting that it is the best system of its kind in all of PEMEX ’ s subsidiary companies ,” Escobedo says .
Moreover , we ’ ve been successful in strengthening the company through training its staff . To this day , 75 % of PPI ’ s staff in charge of procurement operations on account and behalf of PEMEX is certified in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management by the University of Houston . By the end of 2019 , it ’ s expected that every employ-
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