Question-Based on the case study above, Draw a basic Supply Chain map assuming a start with farmers suppliers in Brazil, and that bio-product is shipped to Europe where it is mixed with gasoline in Portugal and ending with shipment to distributors across the EU

Appendix A Putting it all together: Background information ckground Information antry Information cial title Federative Republic of Brazil ulation (million 186775 ularea 8.511,965 km2 rency 1 CANS - 1.32 Real BRL 2006) ional holiday September 7, Independence Day guages Portuguese dical Information of state Federation of government Republic Brazilian economy has laboured under governments that have provided poor ship and poor mplementation of policies Brazil polical system is highly lented, which has resulted in much political wrangling The Economist Since Unit Limited, 1998 and b) Excessive documenty rourement for ely minor tems create burdensome levels of med tape, and compliance was high administrative-coat. The government is proposing to restructure the ystem with a special focus on reducing such paperwork KPMG, 1998) mented this will clearly be of benefit to business operating in or exporting to 1. However, the previously mentioned issue regarding the government's ities in executing such policies must remain a concern omic I is the world's eighth largest economy (Euromonitor, 1996). 1 is atractive for tsimmediate and long-term growth prospects. "Brazil potential to become economic and industrial powerhouse is enormous." The Economist 230 240 GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Intelligence Unt Limited, 1998.) This view is supported by the view that Brazil hard to overlook for the long-term investor (KPMG, 1998) The macroeconomic environment Athough the economy is huge and dynamic, it was mismanaged for years, mainly as a result of political negligence is now being restructures and speed up to competition which is bringing results that suggest even greater promise for the future. The stability that came with the introduction of the latest economic plan anda new currency, the Real in July 1994, enhanced Brazilians' spending power and under scored the country's position as the dominant in Latin America Inflation has been slashed and growth, although constrained by a tight monetary policy, has been steady in the absence of permanent structural changes to take the root causes of nation and instability namely, chronic fiscal dech-Brazil wil remain vulnerable to evaluation, sudden economic slowdowns, financial volatility and external shocks. The Economist Inteligence Unit Limited 1906 Custo Braai is the extra coat of doing business in Bil. An example is the cost of harding containers in Brazilian ports, which is double that of the US or Europe Athough the Bean authorities are starring to win the custo companies will probably have to deal with them for some sme to come. High corporate the (basic income tax of 15 percent),exorbitant interest rates, costy labour laws with over-regulated hiring and living and add on our costs more than oftet low Fiscal and trade policy is volatile and businesses are al mes subjected to sudden changes and surprise tax and tarif hes (The Economist Intelligence Unit 1998 Technological research in Oraclis bagoly came out in public universities and Research institutos. Despite governmental regulations and incentives Investment in research and development has been growing in private universities and companies as wel since the 1990s. Nonetheless more than 73 percent of funding for besc Nach comes from govermental sources Brazilian information technology is comparable in quality and positioning to those of India and the People's Republic of China, thoughts of Brazil's larger internal market software exports we limited Coing for the internal market Brazilian IT particularly in in providing solutions to financial services, defense, CRM e government and healthcare. The Brazilian government as intitution has plans to switch ts operating system, replacing the current proprietary satiware scheme for the free software scheme Brazil has been able to reflects recent economic achievements into social development. Poverty, urban violence, growing social security debts, ineficient public services and the low value of the minimum wage are some of the main social ssues that currently challenge the Brazilian government. The e of poverty is in part attributed to the country's economic inequality. Braziranks among the world's Highest nations in the Gini coeficient index of neustart According to Fundao Getlio Vargas, in 2006 the rate of people living below the poverty ine based on labour income was of 1931 percent of the population-a 33 percent reduction considering the previous three years Poverty in Brazil is most visually represented by the various favelas, slurs in the country's metropolitan areas and remote country regions that sutter with conomic underdevelopment and below-par standards of living. There are also great direnosis wealth and welfare between regions. While the northeast region has the worst economic Indicators nationwide many south enjoy First World socioeconomic standards with roughly za homicides per 100.000 residents. The level of violence in some barge urban centers is comparable to that of a war zone Analysis generally suggest the alarming social inequality as the mor reason behind this problem Muggings robberies, kidnappings and gang violence are APPENDIKA common in the largest the police brutality and corruption are widespread Instient public services, especially those related to security, education and how severely affect unity of the Minimum wages on tulling the constitusional requirements set in antide 7. I regarding living standards currently ranks 70th in the Human Development Index ist with a high HDI (0,800). The social Security system is considered unreliable and has been historical sumerged in large debts and grall which have been wandly increasing along the 1990s Brazil and Bioethanol Br is the world's largest produser of bioethanol with about 4 bilion gallons (15 bilions) in 2004 Brazi is the world's biggest exporter. The chal industry in Bralis dosely rked with sugar production in Brailand as sugar prices riman manulares choose to switch from nolto sugar production. This and the high level of home demand, isely to put pressure on the availability of Brazilian exports in the future in Brazil, 45 percent of the total fuel used in casethanol FlexFuel vehicles which wilow the use of high percentage blanche al boethanol, have proved very popular and within three years it is predicted that all new cars bought in Brazil wit Flesfuel models. Brazi's ethanol industry has been encouraged by government suppon Amandate requires al Braztan gasoline to contains 25 percent ethanol and the government helped to unde establishment of the chanel supply structure 15 CRM NAGEMENT INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT One model that companies can use to run through their global supply chain management processes is the SCOR model of plan to make deler and return Ateach stage in the model companies can identify process improvements deal with potential problems and standardize procedures gament New advances in IT technologies are enabling companies to manage their supply chains more efficiently than ever before ERP systems, e-commerce technologies b-based and RFID tracking, as well as a whole host of other technologies, enable a company on los to view the status of the entire supply chain strously and map production to supply and customer demand be eing up As part of this course on global supply chain management, you will have the option to complete an assignment based on the following case study. Alter each chapter you will be asked to work on some or a task that relates the case study the content covered in the chapter enable Putting It All Together Chase Sports Case study Green blotels supplier me wil GoGreen is a Portugal-based company that blends and distributes Dioethanol to fuel companies in the EU. Both petrol additive and substitute fuel panties derived from formening the sugar in renewable sources of feedstock-usually plants such as wheat, make sugar beet It can be used in any will car and truck engines when blended with conventional wonin concentrations of up to RFID 10 percent. Many cars can run on blends of up to 50 percent RFID The EU is becoming the world's largest market for biofuels because of their commitment to reduce carbon emissions by parent by 2012. The EU permits bioethanasie blends of up to 5 percent. However, European production of bigues is several milon tonnes short of the amount required to meet cartoon reduction targets Because of the tight competition for plant sources of biofuels in Europe. GoGreen looking to Brazil as the source for its bioetanol Brazil has a well-established biotels industry based on the growth and processing of sugar cane and so of Whereas bioetanol produced from European wheat costs approximately US5154 a barrel, bioethanol produced in Brazil costs only US$32 a barrel Bioethanol has a long and complicated supply chain 1. Fertilizer producers, seed and cutting suppliers and agri-chemical suppliers supply aw materials to a purchasing group 2 The purchasing groupsels to farmers who grow the crop 3 Famers sell to traces 4 Traders sell the crop to crushers for processing 5 The liquid trained from crushed Crops is stored in tank farms & From the tank farms, the liquid is transported to processing plants for rering ? Aber percossing the fuel is transported to be blended. The blended lidt for compa The al company supplies the fuel to individual customers at gasoline stations The time from planting crops to crushing the crop is about 920 days. The lead time from the crusher tone customer is approximately 60 days when the crushing plant is in the same geographical area as the customer At all times. companies must monitor carbon usage 10 ensure that production of the bioethanol does out carbon consumption o not RFID