 My name is Cosue Velazquez. I'm a research associate at the Center for Transportation and Logistics. And what is your area of research? My area of research is supply chain management for small firms. Okay, and tell us more about what that is. Well, usually when we study supply chain management, we have a tendency to focus on large firms in developed countries, right? Which actually represent like less than 1% of all the firms in the world. So 99% of the firms are actually small firms, you know, less than 50 employees. And what is happening in the world is that these companies are having tons of problems, you know, in terms of productivity and the lack of efficiency in many practices, business practices and also supply chain management practices. So what we're observing here is that actually these companies represent a large amount of entities in different global supply chains. So that means that for large enterprises, approximately like 60 to 70% of all the members in their supply chains are actually small firms. And this means that if these companies are actually disappearing and are not very efficient, this actually affects large enterprises as well. So part of the research is to study these small firms and to try to understand why they lack of these supply chain expertise and how we can actually work with them to improve this rate of survival for the future. So tell me a little bit more about how this research is being applied in Latin America. Well, as you know, in the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation, CLI, we have 25 academic partners. And we define as a critical area for logistics and supply chain management in Latin America, the supply chain management for small firms. And since then, actually, we developed our regional research project in collaboration with 14 of these universities to tackle a study that intends to make an assessment of the level of adoption of supply chain practices in small firms. So we started working with 500 small firms from eight different countries. In general, we found that all the countries have really a very low level of adoption of supply chain practices and also very low scores in all these lean manufacturing techniques. So the idea is that we are trying to get a better understanding of these companies. And we believe that this is going to help, of course, to increase the survival of the region, but at the same time to improve the efficiency of the global supply chain management, global supply chains for the big firms, for the large firms. So that's why in this research we are calling for those companies that are interested in improving the efficiency of these small firms and they could be like large companies, either in the US or Latin America, and at the same time with governments that are currently working with us to make this improvement, which is the case of Argentina and Mexico. So if our partner companies are interested in being a part of this research, how can they become engaged? Well, first they can share data with us. Some of these large companies that are working with us, they have for instance a very large amount of small firms as customers, like all these traditional channels, particularly for the CPG companies, and we are working with them and they share, we call them the pullers, because they pull all these companies, by being like the main provider for these companies, this has a very strong incentive for the small firms to share the data and also to send the students to understand better how it works. So if they can take this leadership to work with us on this, it would be great. A second way to do it is also to sponsor this research, so to also provide some funding that will allow us to collect more data and to work with different companies in the region, the region is not competitive compared to other regions and part of the main reasons for this is the lack of efficiency in these small firms. Okay, thank you so much for the time that you spent talking about your research. Are there any last points that you would like to hit? Anything else that you'd like to add? No, I would like to invite the companies to be part of these research projects and thank you for your time. Thank you.