Beef

Beef Industry Challenges

Discover how we’ve helped businesses like yours solve their unique business challenges.

Capture spot opportunities without disrupting your formula program.

Will this year’s ad perform as well as last year’s?

Outdated grind pricing formulas are quietly shrinking your margins.

Why should you have a beef with your grinds formula pricing?

Selling trim vs boxing and freezing?

Unlock profit potential with smarter market insights

To choose the right course of action, you need to know the difference between your formula agreement and the spot market over the next two months. That’s where DecisionNext comes in.

In this case study, see how we helped beef buyers improve formula program profitability—saving an average of $0.05–$0.20/lb with Smart Spot Buys. By analyzing key indicators and forecasting short-term market shifts, our customers gained confidence to capture value in volatile beef cutout markets.

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Protect ad margin with defensible feature plans

Retailers often use last year’s ad plan as a baseline for this year’s. But volatile markets, inflation, and shifting cost structures can turn that process into a margin leak. The best ad plans aren’t built on last year’s assumptions—they’re built on what costs and market conditions are forecasted to be during the ad window. DecisionNext helps teams forecast key items, pressure-test feature profitability, and compare procurement options before locking in a plan.

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Strengthen negotiating power with forecasted least-cost formulations

Grind pricing is only as strong as the assumptions behind it. Track blend options and forecast the inputs that drive ground beef formulas. Then walk into negotiations with a clear, defensible view of what should change. With DecisionNext, buyers modernize grind pricing decisions without disrupting day-to-day execution—and protect margin on one of the highest-volume items in the business.

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Cut costs and save time with optimized grind management

Determining the best way to buy trim lean points for value is complex, especially when market conditions change daily. For beef operations questioning their grind pricing, DecisionNext enabled weekly forecasting of trim formulas and negotiations based on least-cost structure—not just fixed lean points. Customers reduced grind costs by $0.02–$0.10/lb and cut make-sheet creation time by 30%, improving both speed and profitability.

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Make smarter sell-or-hold decisions with real-time margin visibility

In a fast-moving beef market, timing is everything. Sell-or-hold calls on trim can make or break carcass value. For customers balancing trim sales with box-and-freeze options, DecisionNext created a cost-accounted base policy and real-time inventory view. The result: a 2% lift in trim margin and more disciplined, confident decisions under pressure.

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Upgrade Your Gut

Strengthen and optimize your position within rapidly changing commodity markets with the help of cutting-edge predictive analytics. DecisionNext’s advanced AI-powered software suite provides best-in-class econometric tools for optimal risk management and decision-making in virtually any natural resource or agricultural market, traded or non-traded.

Get the best data on the market

Enjoy faster access to dynamic data and fuse it with your own

Utilize the best out-of-the-box models

Improve forecast accuracy with our curated AI-forecast models

Make the best decisions every time

Quantify risk for better informed business decisions

Boost profit and manage risk

Enhance decisions with consistency and repeatability

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Highlighted case studies

Take a look at how we empower our customers to make more informed, real-time business decisions.

Increase Ad Plan Margin by 6% with DecisionNext

Introducing an innovative way for the industry to forecast beef prices.

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