Volatility in the buying and selling of value-added meat processing creates tremendous complexity as well as tremendous profit opportunity for forward-thinking businesses.

In this case, “Joe” needed to understand the most important factors driving market prices for his inputs and outputs. DecisionNext helped Joe to affect forecasted prices for his company by discovering and manipulating those drivers.

Running various market scenarios with the DecisionNext simulation tool, Joe can help set his company’s forward sold curve, pick the optimal contract types and lengths, and alert production planners of expected shortfalls that could prevent timely delivery of products.