{"id":720162,"date":"2024-11-25T06:45:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=720162"},"modified":"2024-11-25T07:31:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:31:34","slug":"operational-efficiency-bp-bioenergy","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/operational-efficiency-bp-bioenergy","title":{"rendered":"Operational Efficiency, Location Intelligence Yield More Security and Savings"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[481432,473102,56832,481322,1461],"department":[476822],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-720162","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cost-savings","tag-operational-efficiency","tag-precision-agriculture","tag-site-analysis","tag-sustainability","department-data-and-ai"],"acf":{"short_description":"At bp bioenergy, one of the leaders in sugarcane production in Brazil, location intelligence has helped the company boost security and savings.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Years ago, business executives greeted new enterprise technology with open arms, won over by promises of faster operations, connected teams, and reduced costs."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"Snapshot<\/strong>: From crop treatments to harvesting to maintaining fields, location intelligence drives efficient operations\u2014boosting safety and cost savings\u2014across bp bioenergy, one of Brazil\u2019s largest bioenergy companies.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"For some, those promises dissolved into a series of costly and complicated implementations.\r\n\r\nIn one of the world\u2019s great agricultural regions, a bioenergy company has defied the odds and achieved the original vision, increasing business security and generating cost savings with an enterprise technology called a geographic information system (GIS)<\/a>.\r\n

The History of the Fields <\/strong><\/h3>\r\nA generation ago, the vast sugarcane plantations of Brazil were cut manually, with fire used as a management tool.\r\n\r\nToday, roughly 95 percent of Brazil\u2019s sugarcane harvest<\/a> is mechanized. \u00a0Harvesters and their embedded technology increase crop yields while reducing worker health and safety risks and impacts on the environment. The innovation has fueled the country\u2019s rise as a global agtech leader and one of the world\u2019s most productive food pantries.\r\n\r\nFor bp bioenergy, a pillar of Brazil\u2019s booming sugarcane economy, GIS-generated location intelligence<\/a> is an engine of efficiency. Across the enterprise, GIS has improved outcomes by increasing the safety and speed of operations.\r\n

Finding New Efficiencies <\/strong><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Related Read:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThree ways location intelligence drives business efficiency<\/a>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"bp bioenergy manages thousands of hectares of arable land, which enables the company to produce up to 1.7 million tons of sugar per harvest, in addition to 1.7 million liters of ethanol and 1,400 gigawatt hours of electricity. Across five Brazilian states, with 11 agro-industrial units, the company uses location technology to identify opportunities for improvements to boost its efficiency.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe are a company that operates on a large scale and we need to continue improving and innovating as much as possible, to optimize processes and costs and increase our efficiency, which are essential elements to stay in business,\u201d says Miguel Prieto, GIS coordinator at bp bioenergy."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":720132,"text":"With GIS, you can certify that everything is going well with the operation.","author_name":"Miguel Prieto, bp bioenergy","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

How Location Insights Transformed Large-Scale Agriculture <\/strong><\/h3>\r\nLocation technology now supports 23 distinct applications across the enterprise at bp bioenergy. GIS-based innovations have generated savings across the enterprise, but it all began with a friendly challenge between two colleagues.\r\n\r\nCarlos Mondio, coordinator of agro-industrial controls, who has worked for the company for 16 years, oversees the Moema unit, one of bp bioenergy\u2019s largest production regions. Among other duties, Mondio coordinates the payments of the contractors who carry out the crop treatments in the sugarcane fields. In the past, the company relied on these suppliers to report that jobs were completed correctly.\r\n\r\nBut as the scale of operations grew, so did the need for a centralized system to monitor costs and streamline the contracting process. Mondio asked Prieto if he could create a more efficient way of authenticating third-party work.\r\n\r\n\u201cHow could I say no to such a challenge?\u201d Prieto recounts.\r\n\r\nUsing GIS to track the routes of sensor-equipped tractors and planes, Mondio and team verified the movements of the third-party providers. With the accountability gained through location awareness, they\u2019ve reduced operational costs by 7 percent."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":720142,"text":"GIS is the concrete evidence of what really happened in the field.","author_name":"Carlos Mondio, bp bioenergy","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

High-Precision Farming, Guided by GIS<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nBefore long, another colleague came knocking on Prieto\u2019s door with a task that is at the heart of bp bioenergy\u2019s operations: optimizing the harvest."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Across the enterprise, bp bioenergy uses GIS technology to:\r\n