Has it happened to you that no matter how hard you try to optimize your feed production, every now or then, an additional cost shows up?
Even if at the first glance some changes do not seem considerable, for instance, a new vendor or different packaging prices, a the end of the month you will end up with an increase in your finances.
However, if you choose to formulate and optimize your feed in AFOS, you will gain control over your finances and you will be able to track all your expenses.
In AFOS, features Multiblend and Additional Costs will enable you to track your finances simply and quickly, leading to more organized and controlled feed production.
- If your prices change daily as they probably do, your optimization process, namely, your price update would take a long time. It would be very difficult to open every single formula every day to change the prices. So, every time the prices of your Raw Materials change, a new document can be uploaded easily, and you will have updated prices. So, instead of opening all of the formulas daily or every few days and optimizing them with the current prices, a Multiblend feature can be used to speed up that lengthy operation.
- Multiblend can help you decide whether should you buy some Raw Material from the stock market or not. For example, there is an offer for corn that has a little higher price, but also higher values of protein from another vendor. Instead of manually calculating, opening every single formula, calculating the prices with the old corn and with new corn, finding a difference, doing that to all the formulas, and then finding the sum. Mulitblend analysis can do all that in just a few clicks. And at the end, it answers the question is it cheaper or more expensive to use the new raw material, and if you should buy it or not.
- Multiblend is also a what-if analysis tool. For example, maybe do not have more corn from your regular supplier and you must use corn from a new supplier and that corn is not the same. Now in this case you must change one raw material in all formulas. That would be difficult to do in every single formula. When we use Multiblend, we can select all formulas in which we want to replace raw materials and they will be replaced with just a couple of clicks.
- In the Additional Costs feature, different items such as bags, print, operation, maintenance, transportation, and others can be priced. Furthermore, patterns can be made, for instance, summer or winter patterns and patterns for a specific animal group. We can add patterns or additional costs separately and calculate comprehensive formula prices in the formula.
