Analytical Cornerstone Competitive Cost Tool

Analytical Cornerstone is a powerful, unique software package for measuring competitive manufacturing costs for all significant pulp, paper and select wood grades and geographical regions. This potent tool will allow you to perform important tasks, like:

• Comparing costs between mills, machines/dryers, products and against industry averages
• Finding the lowest-cost producers for each grade and region
• Analyzing how a single mill and machine/dryer compares in specific categories

Analytical Cornerstone provides cost benchmarking data on more than 1,600 mills and their 2,500 individual machines/dryers, plus all major pulp, paper and select wood grades. Make decisions with confidence based on a large array of data points.

Analytical Cornerstone has been enhanced through the addition of:

• Detailed machine-level/dryer-level analysis for each product produced on each machine/dryer
• Fiber furnish for each product on each machine/dryer, offering easy-to-use comparison spreadsheets

Customized configuration

The software can quickly and easily be tailored for your company's specific area(s) of cost focus - product/grade, geographical region, or specific mill or company.

Ease of use

Analytical Cornerstone's intuitive interface enables you to quickly get the information you need without extensive training. Data can be conveniently exported for use in reports, presentations and analyses.

Quarterly updates

The database is kept fresh with quarterly updates to geographical unit costs. Facility mass and energy balances are updated every 18-24 months. Updates are included in your license at no additional charge.

Use the Analytical Cornerstone database to measure cost competitiveness across all natural manufacturing categories:

• Fiber
• Chemicals
• Fuel
• Electricity
• Hourly Labor
• Salary Labor
• Maintenance and Delivery

Scenario Manager

This flexible add-on to Analytical Cornerstone readily lets users perform "what-if" scenarios and sensitivity analysis. Results can be displayed by individual and machine-level/dryer-level detail and in specifically sorted cost curves - plus they can be used to predict and analyze the effects of:

• Changes in exchange rates by country or region
• Adding, upgrading or closing mills
• Fluctuating supply costs for inputs (fuel or market pulp for example)
• Changes in regional costs for specific geographical regions
• Individual mill adjustments.
• NEW! Analyze the cost structures of different machines/dryers at mills
• NEW! Build cost curves and compare individual machines/dryers worldwide

Looking just for information on a specific grade? Click here to view our individual cost benchmarking data grades, delivered using the Analytical Cornerstone framework.

Learn more RISI's benchmarking methodology.

Contact us to learn more about Analytical Cornerstone, or to request a demo.