Ingredient prices move daily, and most formulation processes don’t keep up with that pace. That mismatch is quietly draining margin and consistency across petfood formulation production. This webinar shows how to use optimization to forecast when to forward-buy ingredients, and how to keep formulas aligned to market conditions without sacrificing nutrition, palatability, label claims, or margin. Walk away with a practical way to link formulation and procurement, so ingredient cost swings stop forcing constant reformulation and margin loss.
This webinar will broadcast at 10:00 AM CDT (Chicago) / 4:00 PM BST (London) / 11:00 PM CST (Beijing).
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- How least-cost modeling can react to live ingredient pricing instead of running on stale data, so optimization keeps pace with volatility
- How ingredient forecasting flags which inputs to lock in early
- How to qualify a substitute ingredient quickly while holding nutrition, palatability, and label-claim compliance
- How linking procurement and formulation to the same data closes the gap between what you can source and what you can formulate
- How to protect margin and hold product and brand consistency at the same time
This webinar is sponsored by Datacor and presented by Petfood Industry.
Speaker Information:
Annette Lundeen is head of product for Datacor Animal Nutrition (formerly Format Solutions), a global provider of formulation and feed ERP software for animal feed and pet food manufacturers. She leads product strategy focused on improving operational efficiency, data-driven decision-making and regulatory-ready formulation and production workflows. With more than 30 years of experience in the feed industry, Lundeen began her career as a formulator and has held roles spanning formulation leadership, process standardization, global training and nutrition technology adoption. She holds a degree in animal science from the University of Minnesota and brings a practitioner’s perspective to building software that works in real feed mill environments.