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How New Tariffs Could Impact Your Margins

Significant changes are taking place in the international trading system. Recent announcements from the U.S. government around new and expanded tariffs targeting dozens of countries are expected to have a major impact on global commodity flows. While it’s too early to predict their full effects, it’s critical to consider what this means for markets and […]

Monte Carlo: Taming The Unknown

Not all left behind from the WWII was destruction and despair; it gave birth to the first electronic programmable computer. Nicknamed the “Giant Brain”, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was born at UPenn under the supervision of Dr. John Mauchly an American physicist and Presper Eckert an Electrical Engineer. The year...

Machine VS the Intern

This doesn’t mean that our tasks are necessarily easy to execute, but rather that they are more efficiently facilitated by gadgetry. Being a young person in San Francisco, I exploit technology to exert as little effort towards any duty I need to manage on any given day. I am infantile...

Mike Neal, DecisionNext’s CEO & Co-Founder Weighs In On Improving Commodity Pricing Decisions

What’s the Biggest Decision-Making Challenge Facing Commodity Industries? Without a doubt, market volatility. And over the past decade, the volatility has only gotten greater. In the face of this uncertainty, commodity companies are routinely making multimillion-dollar decisions based on expected future prices with what amounts to gut feel and educated...

Welcome to the New DecisionNext Blog

We’re thrilled to launch this blog at a point when commodities-driven industries are on the verge of a sea change. Deep analytics has changed the landscape of industry after industry and is about to do the same in commodities. This change represents a chance to gain serious competitive advantage for...

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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