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Agriculture Pricing and Purchasing Service

Agriculture Pricing and Purchasing Service provides quarterly frequency price forecasts to 2020 for up to 38 commodities. The service is customizable to allow clients to select from feed grains; food grains; oilseeds; oilseed meals, & oilseed oils; sugar and sweetners; biofuels; dairy products; and meat products.

For each commodity group selected you receive a monthly updated quarterly frequency forecast as well as quarterly updated global supply and demand estimates with commentary supporting those price projections. Our detailed data lets you determine if a price change is warranted based on an analysis of your supplier's cost structure, margins, productivity, and demand.

  • Agriculture Pricing and Purchasing Service equips clients with vital price and cost information that can help companies recognize millions of dollars in cost savings. We go beyond the standard collection of historical data to bring you monthly updated figures on key price drivers in the market and quarterly forecasts for 38 commodities to 2020. This up-to-date, detailed data enables you to better negotiate, enter contracts, time purchasing decisions, and track your purchasing performance.

    Subscribers to this service receive:

    • MyInsight Client Website Access 
    • Data Insight Access 
    • Web access to monthy commentary on forecast highighlights and quarterly commentary on global supply and demand conditions
    • Web Access to Excel Tables of Historical Data and Price Forecasts to 2020 
    • Commodity Updates (released monthly) 
    • Email Notifications with Unlimited Phone Access to our Research Experts 
    • Invitations to our Agricultural Outlook Conference and Roundtables
    Who uses the service?How?
    Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing, and Procurement Professionals To evaluate price increases from suppliers using price and cost benchmark analysis and forecast data
    Finance, Contracts, and Pricing Professionals To accurately estimate cost or inflation rates of agricultural commodities and materials over the length of a long-term contract
    Directors of Cost Estimating  To gauge financial impact of future escalation rates of agricultural commodities and other materials used in capital projects
    Strategic Planners To understand the impact of global supply and demand on expected price changes

    Benefits:

    Agriculture Pricing and Purchasing Service enables you to:

    • Generate cost savings through a thorough understanding of key price drivers 
    • Benchmark agricultural commodity buys against market averages in order to identify cost overruns and improve purchasing efficiencies 
    • Monitor key price fluctuations and assess their impact on the market 
    • Inform forward pricing and timing decisions 
    • Understand key trends conditioned by global supply and demand 
    • Identify and track key inputs


    "A major food manufacturer and retailer used our data to question his supplier regarding a proposed price increase.  Our Ag P&P Service allowed our client a transparent view of the supplier's cost structure, which showed the agricultural commodity input costs for the product had actually fallen and the margins were widening."

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