Cost Benchmarking for Suppliers to the Forest Products Industry

For those companies providing fiber, chemicals, energy, machinery, logistical services or other materials and services to forest products producers, Analytical Cornerstone 4.0 provides invaluable insights and competitive intelligence that you can use to help generate greater ROI on your sales and marketing initiatives, identify and avoid high-risk business relationships, and assist in new product research and development.

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Sales & Marketing

Access comprehensive information about more than 4,000 machines and almost 2,000 mills worldwide. Use this information to uncover new business opportunities, research prospects that offer you the greatest sales portential, and more effectively priortize your sales efforts in order to generate greater ROI.

• Analyze production inputs on a mill- or machine-level basis to quickly determine mills that can benefit from your products and services, locally, regionally or globally.
• Research input cost information and vulnerabilities for your existing prospects to identify ways to more effectively target them in your sales efforts.
• Assess the relative health of mills and machines in defined markets and use this information to determine a more effective sales territory configuration.
• Gain a competitive advantage by planning staff and equipment resources based on a better understanding of the market and potential mill/machine shut downs or conversion opportunities.
• Conduct thorough market research quickly and easily and generate targeted marketing efforts based on the specific needs of mills.
• Run ROI scenarios for sales projects at specific mills, in regional markets or on a mill-level basis to measure outcomes under existing market conditions as well as potential market changes; use this information to create custom sales presentations that illustrate how your products will benefit a specific company's bottom line or operations. You can also run scenarios to measure how potential market changes will impact your existing customers and, ultimately, your bottom line.

Research and Development

Identify the most profitable new products for development by researching opportunities for specific markets and companies.

• Access a comprehensive mill investment summary that contains information on capital investments, capital costs, and production inputs for individual machines in specific mills. Use this information to determine equipment age and potential for new capital investment for mills of interest to you.
• Review capital investment trends in specific markets to determine the future supply needs of the market. Identify ways to potentially serve markets struggling with higher input costs by providing them with cost saving solutions.

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Risk Management

Assess individual mills and machines at risk of closure due to high costs and other factors. Use this information for risk aversion when determining lines of credit extended to such mills.

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