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World Cup in Brazil: Did it make it into your S&OP planning process?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

The 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil is fast approaching, yes it is football not soccer. However, when your can of fizz, bag of nuts or chocolate snack has the name of a team on the packaging then you take the risk of your team unexpectedly departing at the group stage leaving you with huge stocks of Costa Rica cola or Iranian ice cream.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

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. Many of these factors are difficult to control and predict.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

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. Many of these factors are difficult to control and predict.

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Food Security and National Security

Enterra Insights

”[2] According to McKinsey & Company analysts, there are six recognized world breadbaskets: Brazil/Argentina, United States/Canada, Northwestern Europe, Northern India, China/Southeast Asia, and Russia/Ukraine.[3] And then it moves through this whole chain of events, of being processed and packaged and stored.

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The Remarkable Supply Chain of the Coffee Bean

Unleashed

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. Once the beans are dried, they are packaged into large sacks and passed onto the exporters.

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How Would You Explain Supply Chain to Your Grandmother?

BlueYonder

It involves growing the beans in one country (like Brazil or Vietnam) and then the beans are blended and roasted in another country. Afterwards, they are packaged somewhere else in the world. Each day, 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide. The process of making coffee beans is lengthy.

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5 Things You May Have Missed in Supply Chain News

BlueYonder

During the pandemic when no one was flying, the snacks were packaged for different uses and shipped elsewhere. The cuppa crisis started with a record drought in Brazil, which produces 30% of the global coffee supply. If you haven’t traveled in a while because of the pandemic, we have some devastating news: the airport snacks are gone.