The rapid pace and adaption of digital transformation are already reshaping the feed industry, compelling businesses to use their strategies and operations to address the market’s changing demands. To navigate this dynamic landscape, feed industry stakeholders need to harness the true capabilities of innovative digital solutions that empower each stakeholder to enhance efficiency, promote sustainability, and, most importantly, ensure regulatory compliance.

What is Feed360?

Feed360 is not just another digital platform; it’s a revolution transforming the traditional feed supply chain into a comprehensive and better-connected Feed ecosystem. It unifies all stakeholders, including manufacturers, traders, transporters, farmers, nutrition advisors, and waste managers, enabling seamless communication and real-time data sharing. From the advanced feed-balancing module to AI-driven analytics tools, the Feed360 platform fosters a sense of community by enabling direct benefits through improved collaboration among all stakeholders in the Feed ecosystem. This inclusivity is particularly important for those currently driving value via different platforms.

• Farmers can leverage this technology to a tailored dashboard that shows critical inputs from their Farm via FMS, inputs from their sourcing platform and inputs via the transport partner responsible for the fulfilment of their orders- all under one roof with added AI capabilities on smart restocking suggestions and Voice-AI features to help better liaison operationally.
• Feed traders can collaborate better, be more engaged in the Feed procurement process, and improve their top line/sales. They benefit directly from a common platform to connect restocking alerts with upsell opportunities.
• Feed manufacturers can synchronise operations with critical inputs from their transport partners, strengthen quality control via visibility into the precision farming data with connected Farms, and reduce CO2 footprint via a smart AI-driven ESG compliance module.
• Feed transport partners benefit from enhanced end-user experience with better-organised operations and high-touch with both parties involved in the transport order. They’re also enabled to generate mandatory certified CO2 Emission reports and accurately allocate the footprint to each party involved in the delivery, benefiting all stakeholders in the delivery process.

By onboarding onto the Feed360 platform, each stakeholder takes a step forward to future-proof themselves from disruptions caused by gaps between different data lakes. This means their data is now closely coupled with the right data streams and, hence, is more business-relevant, positioning them to enable new avenues to improve productivity and profitability. This well-integrated data ecosystem contributes to a sustainable and resilient agricultural sector.

Feed360 Ecosystem

This platform gives feed stakeholders a 360-degree view of the entire feed supply chain, optimising every aspect from production and logistics to farm management and sustainability tracking. Through data integration and collaboration, Feed360 is already reshaping how manufacturers, farmers, and advisors collaborate to develop a highly efficient and intuitive agricultural ecosystem.

Market Demand Drivers

1. Growing Global Demand for Better Animal Feed

The global population is steadily on the rise, resulting in a surge in demand for better, more sustainable, and healthier food sources. With income levels soaring, people have started consuming more poultry and dairy products, propelling the need for increased animal feed production. This growing demand puts pressure on feed manufacturers to cater to the rising consumption rates while ensuring sustainable and efficient production methods.

2. Fragmented Supply Chain & Lack of a Data Orchestration Platform

The feed supply chain today is functionally mature with many best-in-class ERPs, TMSs and other such functional pillars of the Digital Feed ecosystem but typically lacking the orchestration layer to manage data from all these data lakes and make actionable insights that are user-focused via collaborating with each functional pillar. Such fragmentation often results in multiple touchpoints at the user level, and it introduces inefficiencies, delays due to a lack of data synchronisation, and a lack of coordination due to manual-heavy processes. Without a unified platform for collaboration, communication, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of best practices are persistently hindered.

3. The Increasing Importance of Data Analytics and Data-Driven Decision-Making

In today’s competitive landscape, data analytics has increasingly become important for businesses in making informed decisions, and the feed industry remains no exception. With data-driven insights, feed supply chain stakeholders can optimise their feed formulations, improve feed production efficiency, track Feed stock replenishments, and determine possible supply chain disruptions. This allows them to make proactive decisions and get competitive mileage.

4. Feed Manufacturers and Transporters Seek Improved Operational Efficiency

Feed manufacturers and transporters are continuously pursuing and looking for ways to improve their end-user experience, improve operational efficiency, and reduce costs. This includes better collaboration between all supply chain processes, including optimised logistics planning, driving sustainable and efficient deliveries and lowering waste. Digital solutions like Feed360 help achieve these goals with minimal time and investment in IT infrastructure.

5. Dynamic and Uncertain Demand Coupled with Dynamic Order Volumes

The demand for animal feed is often prone to fluctuations, influenced by key factors like economic conditions, customer preferences, climate change/weather events, and geopolitical disruptions/outages. Also, order volumes are subject to multiple factors, making it difficult for manufacturers and transporters to forecast demand accurately and accordingly assign resources. Such dynamic and uncertain conditions push the need for a better-integrated ecosystem that enables a flexible and adaptable supply chain strategy.

What Differentiates Feed360 from Others?

Feed360 offers a broad spectrum of features to cater for every touchpoint of the feed supply chain-

• Feed Balancing: Adjust feed balancing, tracking feed consumption and dynamically adjust rations
• AI-Based Feed Control Tower: Synchronise production with demand, manage feedstock, and track feed deliveries in real time
• Improved Livestock Visibility: Optimise livestock performance, track their movement, and efficiently manage farm operations by connecting precision farming data with operational data streams and driving data-driven decisions to improve animal health.
• Sustainability & Waste Management: Track and enable certified reporting of CO2 emissions and promote sustainable feed ecosystem.
• True Connected Feed Ecosystem: A platform that enables better collaboration across different platforms and adds business value to the data from various sources and stakeholders in the feed supply chain, allowing real-time insights and predictive analytics.

Concluding Remarks

Feed360 is indeed the future of the feed ecosystem. Harnessing the true potential of AI, IoT, and real-time data analytics to enable smarter decision-making, improved animal health, and sustainable feed ecosystem. The platform offers a holistic view of the entire feed supply chain, optimising every aspect, from production and logistics to feed management and sustainability tracking. With enhanced data integration and collaboration practices, Feed360 is already driving change across many feed manufacturers, transport partners and independent software vendors, and it is well positioned to help improve the digital feed ecosystem.

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