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flyingcuttlefish ago

More on Cemex - found looking up photos of boxcars etc. -

Cemex, based in Monterrey, Mexico, is a 98-year-old company that sells cement and ready-mix concrete products. It has** 53 plants around the globe** in countries including the United States, Spain, Egypt, Colombia, and the Philippines, and is the world’s third largest cement and concrete manufacturer.

. . . . Lorenzo Zambrano, a grandson of the founder of the company, took over the business in 1985 and decided to apply information technology to these problems. He and Cemex chief information officer Gelacio Iniguez developed a series of systems that would enable Cemex to manage unforecastable demand better than its competitors.

. . . from this page about industry efficiency - https://paginas.fe.up.pt/~acbrito/laudon/ch1/chpt1-2fulltext.htm

Partnership yields significant fuel efficiency improvement and accident reduction for CEMEX UK

The article emphasise how Cemex is all into IT to improve delivery time of product to customer. There may be an IT angle to the pedo biz side of them (alleged).