Evaluating buying opportunities is often a big challenge for organisations in the feed industry. With BESTMIX Formulation you can correctly assess the value of raw material buying opportunities by simulating wether or not the raw material would fit into the existing formulas in a least-cost way.
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Evaluating buying opportunities with BESTMIX Feed formulation
by Lynn VerstrepenTips & Tricks Tuesday: Dynamic ingredient and compound families in BESTMIX Feed Formulation
by Lynn VerstrepenMany BESTMIX Feed Formulation users use the ingredient and compound families to store regularly-used selections. In most cases these families need to be updated quite often to stay up-to-date.
By using the "dynamic families" functionality you can store the search criteria so BESTMIX automatically updates the family upon use.
In BESTMIX Feed formulation a compound exists out of a combination of different ingredients. If there is a need to isolate a number of ingredients from the optimisation result, users can do so from within the optimisation window. As such, users can create mixes (premixes, concentrates, etc.) directly from a compound - quickly and easily.
Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Overrule plant availability in a basic ration in BESTMIX Feed formulation
by Lynn VerstrepenIn BESTMIX Feed formulation the availability of ingredients is set up in the plants. This availability avoids that ingredients that are not available in production locations are wrongfully used in compounds.
However, when creating rations, these same ingredients are also used as farmer ingredients where the availability is not an issue and are at..
Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bulkblending - boosting customer service with a minimal impact on your operations
by Lynn VerstrepenYour customers sometimes request special bulk blends, different from your standard products.
The pet food industry deals with a very specific product development and production process. Producers need to be able to generate and maintain complex bill of material, meet nutritional requirements and marketing claims whilst also guaranteeing maximum profits. How can specialized software help?
Whenever a BESTMIX Formulation as a Service user is temporarily unable to follow up on his customers (because of vacation, pregnancy, sick leave, ...) it's common practice for colleagues to take over a number of his/her responsibilities. To make sure your company's customers get the same high level of service, FaaS allows users to temporarily..
Nutritional values and compound specifications are vital in any formulation system. Even the smallest change to a single nutrient in a single ingredient can lead to a major shift in the nutritional values and final product composition. It is therefore essential to know which changes were made and by whom.
Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Windows authentication in BESTMIX Feed formulation
by Lynn VerstrepenMany companies maintain a strict policy towards the periodic renewal of passwords. To make this policy easier to enforce BESTMIX Feed formulation and BESTMIX Recipe management allows authentication via Windows.