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Sugar industries are a complex integrated system involving the growing, harvesting, transport, millingand marketing sectors (Higgins and Mucha, 2003). This study has shown that optimized agriculturalplanning promotes a homogeneous distribution of raw material along the months of crop obtaining themaximum possible profit. An easy-to-use management tool is the best way to explore several harvestingoptions to maximize profits. The use of a yield-predicting model would give better support in thescenarios creation for optimization, mainly the maturation of sugarcane (Scarpari and Beauclair, 2004).The transport restriction does not reproduce faithfully what happens in farming, demanding a morecomplex analysis. We suggested the adoption of road-satellite systems where the best decision route andallocation is made quickly along the day. In terms of future work, the inclusion of a model predictingproductivity will be considered, since the data used in this study was related to a crop that had alreadybeen harvested. The goal is to get the future values and to accomplish the optimization. Without the use ofeffective forecasting tools, the application of modeling software in strategic planning can result insolutions with less realism, because "average values" do not represent what actually happens in a crop,particularly regarding the maturation of the sugarcane (Scarpari and Beauclair, 2004).
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