INDUSTRY SEGMENT: Poultry

Optimization Software and Predictive Analytics for the Poultry Industry

The volatility in today’s poultry market creates a complex set of challenges that have negatively affected processor performance. Combine that unpredictability with SKU proliferation, tight competition, and excess capacity, and it’s no surprise that determining pricing on all of the SKUs in your poultry business is a complex challenge.

While the market is beginning to understand that processors must take price increases, processors have difficulty raising prices fast enough to keep up with the rising costs of their inputs. Those that can do it most effectively stand to survive this precarious market and even improve their financial performance.

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 promotional discounts and provide real-time visibility into product availability.

Accurate Price Forecasts for Forward Insight into Costs and Prices

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

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

Promotion Optimization, Maximizing Retrun on Promotional Spend

Set optimized every day prices for products in each perishable category
Optimize the type, depth and product mix of promotions under various forecasted cost scenarios
Estimate the impact of destination fresh categories on the overall store traffic