With the support of representatives from the sugar and energy industry, Cepea (Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics), from Esalq/USP, is progressing in implementing more flexible and secure systems for integrating data related to the country’s sugar and ethanol businesses. .
Groups with advanced technical and operational negotiations with Cepea account for more than half of national sugar and ethanol production. Cepea’s new technologies are expected to reach almost all sugar and ethanol sales carried out by mills.
Cepea has developed solutions, such as API (Application Programming Interface) and other data integration technologies, in a customized manner, according to each industry group, to offer a more robust process of sending/receiving data and processing search results.
In addition to data volume and transfer speed, negotiations also enhance the security of the collection and storage flow, through encryption protocols that allow greater security of information in the transfer process.
Together, these systems improve the security, accuracy, and speed of data collection. It also allows the integration of factory databases and Cepea databases, which is often straightforward and automated, bringing large-scale gains to the collection of factory work. These companies can also integrate information from Cepea indicators into their business and business intelligence segments.
This integration between Cepea, an internationally recognized research center at the University of São Paulo, and sugar power plants opens the way for automated monitoring and auditing systems. These measures increase the transparency of the national sector in light of the great international competition and high demand for accurate and reliable data.
The benefit also benefits independent sugarcane suppliers, who have relevant involvement in the production chain and obtain values for their sugarcane based on industrial derivative prices. “The innovations implemented by Cepea make the samples used to calculate average prices more robust and enhance the transparency of the values obtained by plants,” explains Professor Mirian Baci, responsible for Cepea’s ethanol indicators.
Cepea’s Sugar Research Coordinator, Professor Heloisa Lee Burnquist, adds: “The collaboration of mills, which accepted Cepea’s proposal to include more technology in data transmission, confirms the message that Cepea not only seeks to improve the flow of information, but also contributes to creating a market environment More transparent and efficient.” Sepia
