Technological management in the industrial network: the sugar supply to the industrially processed food chain

The complexity of the established relationships in any supply chain needs system of decision more and more interconnected involving the companies to her belonging. The present paper analyzes the integration process of the productive chain of sugar to the network of supplies of processed food, promoted by the deregulation of the sugar sector and globalization of the markets. That process, conditioned by technological and organizational changes, makes emerged an intermediate market for sale of the sugar to the industrial market, being constituted a new industrial network. The currently emerging structure proposes to create a new inter-organizational mode capable of responding jointly and flexibly to the final demand