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Employee Spotlight: Orlando Rodriguez, Customer Success Specialist

As we continue to grow, our partners’ success becomes an even more critical piece of the puzzle. That’s where Orlando comes in. This month, we chatted with him about his background, fostering trust and collaboration, and his secret to keeping customers coming back. Can you share a bit about your background and how it led […]

People Need the Bacon: 4 Questions to Consider in Market Uncertainty.

For companies whose profit margins are impacted in some way by the pork belly market (processors, further processors, retailers, distributors, foodservice) that 80% price increase is likely leading some folks to either a Tums addiction or some sweet bonuses, depending on the company’s position in the market. Significant price movements...

Whether You Call It Trading or Not, Your Company is Taking Market Positions

Introduction: Market Risk at Commodities-Driven Companies When an investor buys a stock, she is taking a position, placing a bet on the stock’s value going up so that she can sell it later for a profit. In commodities industries like food processing and mining, many executives see their companies solely...

Millennial Meat Preferences: What am I Supposed to do with a Chuck Roast?

Something is causing an unprecedented number of millennials to eat out more than past generations, negatively affecting retail meat sales. Morgan Stanley found that 53% of millennials dine out once a week, compared to 43% of the general population. When millennials do purchase meat to prepare at home, they gravitate...

Restructuring Sales Territories

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Bringing Analytics to Industry

In my experience, there are three crucial questions that an executive needs to be confident in answering, before committing their organization to analytics transformation - especially as it relates to working with an outside software partner. "Does their math fit our business?" "Do their people understand our business" "Can our...

Where Meat-Buying Intuition Meets Artificial Intelligence

DecisionNext has produced this whitepaper which focuses on how its patented machine-learning technology combines with your industry expertise to produce a competitive edge. In this case, we will dive into how today’s new tools build powerful forecast scenarios in order to nail the timing of a buy for holiday beef ribs in highly unpredictable market […]

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