Cost Benchmarking for Packaging, Paper & Wood Products Buyers

RISI's Analytical Cornerstone 4.0 cost benchmarking tool gives packaging, paper and wood products buyers transparency in supplier pricing and invaluable market intelligence that can be used for strategic purchasing, financial planning and analysis, and risk assessment. Use the application to find mills that are located near your production or shipping facilities, as well as which mills are likely to provide you with a consistent source of products at the best price possible. It will also give you greater negotiating power when bargaining with suppliers because you’ll already know their costs to produce the products you need and how they compare with other mills producing the same products.

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Strategic Purchasing

• Quickly and easily identify key mills and companies that supply the grades you need.
• Easily find mills located near your production or shipping facilities and run cost reports based on specific inputs, such as delivery costs.
• Compare mills in the same region to determine their cost competitiveness, as well as their risk of closure to determine whether specific mills will be consistent sources of the products you need.
• Examine cash manufacturing cost as well as total cost (includes all a mill’s costs, such as overhead, sales and more to give you a complete cost picture) of specific mills to better understand the cost positions of specific mills in markets of interest to you. Overlay pricing data on a cost curve to see a mill’s potential profit margin and how much room you have for price negotiations.
• Gain greater transparency in supplier pricing by running different scenarios to determine how changes in market conditions and production inputs impact your suppliers, such as fluctuations in fiber costs, energy costs, labor, regional unit costs and more.
• Use this tool to centralize buying for your company by comparing delivery costs among mills in various world regions to determine if product imports are more cost effective.

Financial Analysis

• Analyze historical cost data for individual mills and/or machines to understand how their costs are impacting fluctuations in prices; look at a breakdown of specific cost variables, such as energy costs, input costs, labor costs, etc., and get a snapshot of the percent changed on a year-to-year basis.
• Model the effects of changes in existing exchange rates, costs of materials, energy costs, regional unit costs and more to analyze how they could impact mills of interest to you and, ultimately, the cost of sourcing paper, packaging and wood products through them.

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Risk Assessment

• Assess individual mills and machines at risk of closure due to high costs and other factors.
• Identify mills and companies that are well positioned as long-term secure suppliers.

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