Food manufacturers and distributors
Unlock 70+ million commodity data points and access in-depth market insight, reliable analytics, and cost modeling tools to achieve your business objectives.
Benchmark performance and pricing across your portfolio
Effective cost management is essential for food manufacturers and distributors, especially when managing a large, complex portfolio. While operations, products, and customers vary, they’re all highly margin-driven so maximizing efficiencies is key. Expana’s cloud-based solution helps you achieve this by providing forecasts, analytics, commodity prices, and more, that enable you to:- build customized commodity data dashboards and carry out detailed analysis and reporting
- access current and historic pricing information to respond to trends and market drivers
- integrate data directly into your operations for streamlined workflows that save you time
Foster strong relationships, even during price increases
In today’s competitive marketplace, price changes for raw materials can be sudden and the reasons behind them are often complex. Food manufacturers and distributors need reliable data that explains the price impact of market events and shows any cost changes are fair and unbiased. With Expana’s industry-leading data you can:- take the emotion out of customer negotiations with independent data to benchmark price movements
- compare historical and seasonal pricing trends for full transparency into market fluctuations
- rebase costs to gain a competitive advantage in deflationary cycles
Protect against pricing and supply chain risks
From extreme weather to international conflicts to crop and livestock diseases, the global food commodity supply chain can be heavily impacted by a wide range of market events. Food manufacturers and distributors need to protect their organization and mitigate supply risk by identifying changing price trends and negotiating longer-term contracts for a more stable pricing pattern. Expana helps you achieve this by enabling you to:- access current and historic commodity data prices
- identify and respond to price trends and key market drivers
- stay updated on breaking news and large price fluctuations via alerts and dashboards
Unlock data-driven insights for better business performance
Find out how Expana’s range of solutions – offering global commodity data, analysis, and insights – can help you to deliver on your objectives.
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Food manufacturers are attracted by the ability to use Expana platforms to provide unbiased data and in-built analysis. The range of visual data and analysis tools within Expana enables them to effectively communicate insight to suppliers.
Spencer Wicks
CEO, Expana