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Manifest 2024 with Pam Simon

The Logistics of Logistics

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. Covers the entire supply chain spectrum, from transportation to data analytics. Features cutting-edge technologies like AI, blockchain, and robotics.

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How Trucking Rules in Brazil Are Driving Change

MIT Supply Chain

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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Supply Chain Crisis Could Still Cancel Christmas

IT Supply Chain

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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Prescriptive Analytics is Going Mainstream. Is your Organization Ready?

AIMMS

Prescriptive Analytics platforms , as defined by Gartner , “primarily focus on creating optimization solutions,” providing “data prep, prescriptive model building, model management and model deployment in various business processes.” More investment in data science . Spreadsheets are prone to error.

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Optimizing the food industry: a conversation with UniSoma’s Luis Pinto

AIMMS

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. At the same time, you have all these terms – machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data. UniSoma brings the modeling expertise.

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Prescriptive Analytics is Going Mainstream. Is your Organization Ready?

AIMMS

Prescriptive Analytics platforms , as defined by Gartner , “primarily focus on creating optimization solutions,” providing “data prep, prescriptive model building, model management and model deployment in various business processes.” More investment in data science . Spreadsheets are prone to error.

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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

She stated, “We must use big data and digital tools to protect food security and increase climate resilience. New technologies and data generation can transform business practices across the agricultural value chain and address bottlenecks in, productivity, harvesting, market access, finance, and supply chain management.”[1]

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