AIMMS

APRIL 11, 2018

Competing with companies from Brazil, which benefit from better soil conditions as well as a larger market, is very difficult. Feed costs are much cheaper in Brazil than in South Africa. This is just an example of the challenges presented by the globalized market. A lot companies are being put out of business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

Supply side shifts: Example: A global coffee manufacturer experiences disruptions due to a natural disaster affecting one of its key suppliers in Brazil due to dry weather. They design their supply chain on a continuous basis and focus on ecommerce retailing strategies that segment their customer base according to buying behavior.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 19, 2019

We were pleased to welcome supply chain expert Steve Tracey from Penn State University and our customers Kraft-Heinz, Novelis Brazil, Boeing and Southwest Airlines. We then moved over to Barcelona for this year’s European event.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While living in Brazil she founded LATAM Founders Network (LFN), the largest private network of CEO’s, Founders and Investors focused on the technology sector in Latin America.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 20, 2023

While living in Brazil she founded LATAM Founders Network (LFN), the largest private network of CEO’s, Founders and Investors focused on the technology sector in Latin America.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2019

This victory also marked back-to-back World Cup championships, which is the first time a women’s team has accomplished the feat, joining only men’s winners Italy (1934, 1938) and Brazil (1958, 1962). To say this team faced a lot of adversity is an understatement. The team, and namely Captain Megan Rapinoe, faced a lot […].

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 30, 2023

The sustainability standard requires slaughterhouses to adopt a tracking system to monitor their entire supply chain in the Amazon region and Maranhao by December 2025.

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

Insights from Tereos Sugar & Energy Brazil. In the past decades, Brazil has become a world leader in the agribusiness space. The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2024

Business operations and system confidence built through this deployment has led NSK Americas supply chain leadership to extend this capability additional warehouses in their US supply chain network and Brazil. NSK is on track to get payback within 3 years.

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2014

The most fancied competitor, Brazil, was humiliated, in front of its home crowd, in a 1-7 defeat by Germany (more of that later). Brazil and Spain had established reputations for inventive, free-flowing soccer, but their pedigrees counted for little on the ground. To a large extent Brazil played into the Germans’ hands.

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 26, 2014

Higher GDP standards are looming in a number of countries – new guidelines will come into force during 2014 in Brazil, the European Union and China. Singapore is currently drafting new GDP standards (ColdChainIQPC).

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

This is what happened to PepsiCo Brazil when the Brazilian government introduced new rules that limit truck driver working hours. Legislation that took effect in September 2013 imposes a number of restrictions on the working hours of truck drivers in Brazil. Also, some larger operators initially opted to flout the regulations.

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IT Supply Chain

JANUARY 14, 2022

By Josh Brazil (pictured). SVP Global Supply Chain Insights, project44. The post Currys crumble at Christmas, supply chain to blame appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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IT Supply Chain

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Josh Brazil (pictured). VP Supply Chain Insights, project44. The post ASOS goes airborne in blow for sustainable credentials appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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IT Supply Chain

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Josh Brazil (pictured). VP Global Supply Chain Insights, project44. The post Felixstowe strikes & energy price rises – a perfect storm of inflation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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IT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Josh Brazil (pictured). SVP Global Supply Chain Insights, project44. The post Get Brexit bottlenecks under control appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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IT Supply Chain

MARCH 16, 2022

By Josh Brazil (pictured). SVP Global Supply Chain Insights, project44. The post China’s covid outbreak already wreaking havoc on supply chains appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Brazil-based Volnei dos Santos, Technical Director at UniSoma , states : “until the beginning of the last decade, most of our projects focused on steel, pulp and paper, and animal production businesses. Nowadays, management teams know what data science is and they recognize that they can gain value from it. .

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IT Supply Chain

JANUARY 6, 2022

By Josh Brazil (pictured). SVP Global Supply Chain Insights, project44. The post BCC research reveals firms to raise prices as inflation fears grow appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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IT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By Josh Brazil (pictured). VP of Supply Chain Data Insights, project44. The post Supply Chain Crisis Could Still Cancel Christmas appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

and Brazil this year that will end up in products on Target shelves early next year. FibreTrace uses a digitally trackable pigment that follows a bale of cotton from initial processing to finished product. Cargill, one of the world’s largest buyers of raw cotton, will use the technology on 50,000 tons of cotton from the U.S.

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AIMMS

APRIL 11, 2018

Competing with companies from Brazil, which benefit from better soil conditions as well as a larger market, is very difficult. Feed costs are much cheaper in Brazil than in South Africa. This is just an example of the challenges presented by the globalized market. A lot companies are being put out of business.

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SCM Research

MAY 1, 2012

Second, international SCM activities are challenging for many participants, particularly in regions such as China, Russia, Brazil, Eastern and Southeast Europe (including Turkey), and the Arabian Peninsula. Third, market volatility seems to be a problem for many firms and many of them strive for improved visibility in their supply chains.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

[Infographic] US Manufacturing Only 5 Percent More Costly Than China, Strengthens Case for Reshoring: Five economies traditionally regarded as low-cost manufacturing bases China, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia have seen their cost advantages erode significantly since 2004 while US Manufacturing has considerably improved its cost structure, (..)

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

His demand signal was worse in global markets, especially Brazil. On the 9th of April, I went to see a supply chain leader that spoke of how a “tightly integrated” global supply chain was making things worse for him.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The company is a global leader in meat processing with an annual revenue of $27 billion and over 50 processing plants in Brazil alone. JBS offers a great example of how you can support your IBP and S&OP process with optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Generative AI (GenAI) has introduced remarkable possibilities for increasing productivity by enabling humans to asking their system for help in their own words.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Meanwhile, Brazil, Russia and India will become major suppliers as companies access the remaining untapped resources of the world. New markets are emerging in the global economy daily. According to PLS Logistics , global companies will install procurement managers in China for entire organizations by 2025.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

Luxottica has manufacturing facilities in five countries: Italy, China, India, United States and Brazil. It is a captive onshoring and offshoring model, with six facilities based in its home country of Italy, two in China, and one facility each for the US, India and Brazil. An Industry Newcomer: Warby Parker.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 30, 2011

In fact, all of the BRIC countries are now in the top 10 economies, with Brazil at 9, Russia at 6, India at 4 and China 2nd. As a result, more companies are investing heavily in countries like China and Brazil. China surpassed Japan in 2010 as the world’s second largest economy, and the IMF predict it could exceed the U.S.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 28, 2017

But in 2010, an upturn in demand in emerging regions like Brazil, India and China meant capacity required varied significantly by region. Over the past few decades, the auto industry, like most other industries, experienced unprecedented changes that drove a need to transform capacity management from a regional to a global view.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Brazil-based Volnei dos Santos, Technical Director at UniSoma , states : “until the beginning of the last decade, most of our projects focused on steel, pulp and paper, and animal production businesses. Nowadays, management teams know what data science is and they recognize that they can gain value from it. .

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China are further changing the automotive landscape, as automakers look to streamline distribution and better serve these areas, who combined represent 40% of the world’s population and have gross domestic product (GDP) growth far exceeding that of more fully developed countries.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The majority of the world’s coffee beans are grown in Brazil, Vietnam, Peru and Colombia, but can also be grown in other favourable, humid climates. Coffee retailers Campos Coffee source their beans from Kenya to Columbia to Brazil. Find out how they manage their complex supply chain with the help of inventory management software.

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

The company has corporate offices in Houston, Texas, with offices in Brazil, Luxembourg and Nigeria. Pacific Drilling, an offshore drilling company, provides global deep water drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry through the use of high-specification drillships.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Robinson ) announced that it has expanded its operations to São Paulo, Brazil. 3PL Global Trade Mergers/Acquisitions This Week in News Brazil C.H. Seems like XPO is betting on it, and buying itself marketshare. In other news, TMC (a division of C.H.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 14, 2016

However, if you import in Brazil or Peru, for example, when a shipment arrives at the port, it has to be moved first to a fiscal warehouse to clear customs, which adds lead time and cost to the end-to-end supply chain process.

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