Features

Everything a feed formulator needs

FACT does the whole job: from your ingredient database and prices to the least-cost formula, the reasons behind its cost and the plan for your raw materials.

Formulation

The least-cost formula, in a click

Open a formula model, check its limits and select Formulate. FACT’s solver returns the cheapest mix that meets every ingredient limit, nutrient limit and ratio, usually in a fraction of a second.

Limits in redA limit the formula reaches is marked, so you see what decides the cost.

Costing on screenMaterial cost, overheads, market rate and saving for each bag.

Previous formulaEach result is compared with the last one, ingredient by ingredient.

Auto FormulateChange a limit, and FACT formulates by itself.

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The least-cost formula, in a click in FACT, with demo data

Not feasible

When the limits cannot all be met

FACT lists the values that break their limits and shows the best sources of each, in your formula and in your database. It works out the change that makes the formula feasible, with its cost, and applies it in one click.

Short byHow far a nutrient is from its limit, and the most it can reach.

Makes it feasibleThe single changes that solve the formula, ranked for you.

Database ideasIngredients you do not use yet that could help.

Keep or clearKeep the closest result, or clear it and change your limits.

Video 15: Formulation Not Feasible

When the limits cannot all be met in FACT, with demo data

Shadow pricing

Know what each limit costs you

Shadow pricing shows the saving of one percent more of each ingredient held at its maximum, the price at which a rejected ingredient would come in, and the price range in which your formula stays the same. Try a new limit and see the new cost per bag before you change anything.

Rejected itemsThe price that brings an unused ingredient into the formula.

Ingredient sensitivityThe saving of each 1% of a maximum or minimum limit.

Price rangesHow far a price can move before the formula changes.

Nutrient sensitivityThe cost of every nutrient limit the formula reaches.

Video 13: Costing, Shadow Pricing and GST

Know what each limit costs you in FACT, with demo data

Costing

Costing, savings and GST for every bag

Every formula shows its full costing: factory overheads, admin and selling costs, material cost, total cost and the net margin at your market rate. The GST calculation works out the input and output GST and the saving after GST.

Profit and lossThe full costing of one bag, in one window.

Price list comparisonWhat the same formula would save with your other price lists.

GST calculationFreight, discounts and output GST, worked out for you.

PelletabilityPellet quality, press capacity and abrasiveness of the formula.

Video 13: Costing, Shadow Pricing and GST

Costing, savings and GST for every bag in FACT, with demo data

Parametrics

Ask “what if?” before you decide

Run one limit, nutrient or price through five steps, change two or three parameters together, or find the most economical of 2 to 5 similar ingredients, such as SBM 44% and SBM 46%. The formula on your screen does not change.

Single analysisOne parameter in five steps, with the cost of each.

Multiple analysisTwo or three parameters changed together.

Content evaluationWhich of several similar ingredients is the best buy.

PrintThe whole comparison on paper, with nutrients.

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Ask “what if?” before you decide in FACT, with demo data

Multiblend

Every feed of your plant on one screen

Open the starter, grower and finisher together. Formulate all of them, compare results and limits side by side, set the same limit in every formula in one step, then save and print them together.

Formulate allEvery formula solved in one click.

OverviewCosts, ingredients and nutrients of all formulas side by side.

Save allSave every formula in the Feed Store, as current rations if you like.

Print allProduction, costing or nutrition prints for every feed.

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Every feed of your plant on one screen in FACT, with demo data

Formula analysis

Check a ration you write yourself

Type the inclusion rates or weights of a hand-made ration, or one from a consultant. FACT works out the nutrients, the cost, the saving and the pellet quality factors as you type.

Inclusion or weightType percentages or kilograms per batch.

TotalsThe total turns green at exactly 100%.

Fixed valuesPremixes you always add start filled in.

Analysis storeSave analyses and open them again later.

Video 18: Formula Analysis

Check a ration you write yourself in FACT, with demo data

Feed store and comparison

Every saved formula, and three side by side

Every formula you save goes to the Feed Store with its comments and date. Compare up to three saved rations side by side, at the prices you use today, and try a change before you decide.

Search and filterFind a ration by name, comments, date or model.

Current rationsThe ration each feed uses now, for stock planning.

Side by sideMaterial cost, margin, nutrients and ingredients of three rations.

Try a changeChange an inclusion rate or a price and see the effect.

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Every saved formula, and three side by side in FACT, with demo data

Stock projection

How long your stock lasts, and what to buy

Enter your daily production and the share of each feed. FACT works out the daily use of every ingredient from your current rations, how many days your stock lasts and what to buy for the days ahead.

Daily consumptionKilograms of every ingredient you use each day.

Days of stockHow long each ingredient lasts.

DemandWhat to buy for the days you plan for.

PrintA purchase list, by category if you like.

Video 21: Stock Projection

How long your stock lasts, and what to buy in FACT, with demo data

Set up once

Your data, organised the way you work

The Home screen groups your data into UPDATE and SELECT, just like the FACT workbook you may know.

Database

Ingredients with their nutrient values and categories, nutrient equations, and pelletability factors.

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Ingredient prices

Price lists with or without GST, the date of every change, and price list comparison.

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Formula models

One model per feed, with its selling rate, factory overheads, admin costs and bag weight.

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Nutrient ratios

Ratios such as digestible methionine to lysine, applied at every Formulate.

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Plants

One FACT for all your feed plants, each with its own models, prices, stock, saved rations and currency.

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Profiles

More than one set of nutrient values, for example for a new crop or another supplier.

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Selections

Choose the ingredients and nutrients of each model, with defaults for new models.

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Printing

Production sheets for the mixing floor, costing and nutrition prints, price lists and plans.

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Import your Excel data

With a key that allows it, FACT reads your FACT .xlsm file once: database, prices, models, ratios and current rations.

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