Pet Food

In a fast-paced environment, formulators face daily challenges with the unpredictability of raw materials, including the variability of prices over short and long terms. In our software solution, you can review all data including price trends and forecasted amounts, enabling you to make informed decisions about future purchases. Avoid production breaks due to material shortages and gain insights to anticipate ingredient needs (what to buy when), ensuring cost-effectiveness while maintaining quality.

Due to the cost and availability of premium ingredients like fishmeal and fish oils, formulating high-quality pet food requires a careful balance between ingredient cost and nutritional quality. Investigating alternatives to these high quality - high cost ingredients (such as novel insect proteins, soy protein concentrate or other high protein vegetables) can be done with a click of a button in our solution. By being able to more frequently and accurately re-formulate the end products based on the actual market situation, you can save on inventory and raise your margin.

Controlling moisture levels of your final product has never been this easy. With our solution, you can calculate drying effects right from the formulation stage—at both the ingredient and recipe levels—eliminating uncertainty from the start. This effective moisture management ensures pellet stability, extends shelf life and minimizes nutrient leaching, overall enhancing feed efficiency.

Imagine effortlessly creating a diverse range of high-quality pet food products, each fine-tuned to meet specific brand requirements—whether to differentiate your premium brand from a private label version or to cater to particular pet health needs. With BESTMIX®, managing these variations becomes straightforward, allowing you to add and adjust ingredients or additives with precision. You can layer ingredients on top of an existing recipe, modify existing components, or incorporate special additives. This flexibility enables you to innovate and distinguish between brands, even if they share a base recipe, ensuring that each product meets unique specifications without the usual complexity.

Who says you can’t optimize in pet food? Even with upfront printed packaging, our solution allows you to optimize within those boundaries, addressing marketing volatility in ingredients while ensuring adherence to legal requirements. Verify compliance with regulations and marketing claims early in the NPD process to prevent recalls due to invalid claims on product declarations. Thanks to our integrated best practices, regular updates (AAFCO and FEDIAF), and the ability to incorporate your own procedures, BESTMIX® empowers you to consistently operate according to legal and company-specific rules. Enhancing in the end your profit margins without compromising quality.

When a new product is created or refined, BESTMIX takes care of the details by updating all essential legal and commercial documents in one go. Each newly created product version comes to life with an updated datasheet, complete with precise feeding guidelines, all crafted through customizable templates. As soon as a product is finalized, labels, product specifications, and feeding tables are instantly available, ready to be shared both within the company and with partners. This streamlined process can transform hours or even days of work into mere minutes or seconds, keeping everyone aligned and ensuring accurate, up-to-date information at every step.