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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. A lot of different companies came to us for a demo. Get a demo of TacticaOps at VIV Europe 2018 . This was our Alpha launch.

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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. A lot of different companies came to us for a demo. This is just an example of the challenges presented by the globalized market.

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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

Resilinc

Restrictions in the Panama Canal have affected over 170 countries and virtually every good: soybeans and liquified natural gas from the United States, copper and fresh cherries from Chile, and beef from Brazil. Schedule a demo today. What is the lesson to be learned from the 2023 Panama Canal bottleneck?

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Trimble Acquires Brazil-Based Veltec to Expand its Global Portfolio of Transportation Solutions. Waitrose trials “in-home delivery” service (Reuters). Amazon Patents Drone Chute For Quiet Deliveries (CB Insights). Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group.

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Key Takeaways from Manifest 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. Attendees didn’t just get brochures and video demos about the future of trucking, they got to climb in the trucks and participate in ride-alongs.

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REPOST: Key Takeaways from Manifest 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. Attendees didn’t just get brochures and video demos about the future of trucking, they got to climb in the trucks and participate in ride-alongs.

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This Mexico-Based E-commerce Business Reduced 66% Delivery Costs With Locus

Locus

Currently, they have operations in Brazil, Peru and five cities in Mexico: Monterrey, Guadalajara, Queretaro, Puebla and Mexico City. When it was first launched in 2019, Mexico-based Jüsto was an e-grocery platform that wished to disrupt the consumer industry and become Latin America’s favorite supermarket by 2030.