INDUSTRY SEGMENT: Meat

Optimization Software and Predictive Analytics for the Meat Industry

Pho Industries Meat

The meat industry faces a unique set of challenges in margin optimization. The disassembly nature of the business, variable weight products and market volatility combine to make on-demand pricing and product availability a very important but challenging undertaking. Packers and processors need to find ways to maintain and grow profitability even as market conditions change.

SignalDemand's predictive analytics and optimization software captures the complex interdependencies between supply and demand in accurate models to forecast market price movements, optimize prices and to provide real-time visibility into product availability.

Forward Insight into Prices and Costs with Price Forecasts

  • Determine the forward-looking market costs for meat and poultry products
  • Reduce cost-side risk in procurement of meat and poultry materials
  • Enter price negotiations with greater confidence

Improves Pricing and Product Mix with Optimization Software

  • Set optimal spot, medium- and long-term prices for commodity markets
  • Set prices that sell the whole animal most profitably
  • Eliminate unprofitable SKUs by shifting demand to more profitable substitute products
  • Understand true profitability and demand by customer and by product

On-Demand Product Availability for Optimal Pricing Decisions

  • Real-time insight into availability and all of its components: inventory, production (kill and primal purchase), sales orders, product reservations (block) and freeze plans
  • Reduce deep discounting due to inventory imbalances
  • Optimally use production capacity
  • Identify the best opportunities for excess inventory