One of the main uses of a formulation tool is to help the raw material purchasers to take good decisions and pick the right additive. Considering part of the information are in the hands of the Technical Manager and the other part such as the ingredient prices and ingredient quality are at the disposal of the end customers it becomes essential to work on a common solution.
President / CEO
A-SYSTEMS SAS
Why formulating? It is obvious that if commodities’ prices and qualities remain stable and the animal nutritional needs never change, working with fixed formulas could be sufficient.
In this case, supplying the feed producers with commodities would be easy as pie. Unfortunately it is not the case! Indeed, one of the main uses of a formulation tool is to help the raw material purchasers to take good decisions and pick the right additive. Considering part of the information are in the hands of the Technical Manager and the other part such as the ingredient prices and ingredient quality are at the disposal of the end customers it becomes essential to work on a common solution.
Recently A-Systems has launched an innovative solution enabling to feed additive suppliers to provide a shared formulation solution platform. Technical Managers and their customers can used the same webpage. It becomes easier to show the interest of additives in customer’s formulas. Formulation task become a collaborative work.
A-SYSTEMS is the editor of the Allix formulation software used worldwide by feed manufacturers, additive producers and consultants wishing to benefit from the most advanced formulation software in terms of technology and functionality.
The development of the Internet, which is about to be available all over the world, makes possible to imagine and realise tools which, until recently, depended on network infrastructures that were not always easy to roll out.
Producers of additives and enzymes are eager to provide their customers with increasingly advanced technical support that will enable them to make the most of their know-how. However, integrating this know-how into the formulation matrices of feed manufacturers is not an easy task.
This is why A-SYSTEMS has developed a web-based formulation platform: designed as a web extension of the Allix formulation software, it provides a complete formulation tool.
In addition to the possibility of optimising formulas, either individually or in the context of a multi-formulation, WebAllix also allows simulations of raw material purchases and calculations of raw material consumption.
The online formulation tool is synchronised with the formulation tool set up in the office enabling the additive supplier to update the nutritional values of raw materials and formulation constraints.
WebAllix allows a really collaborative work, as data can be shared between several end users.
Technology must be at the service of users. The user friendliness of WebAllix puts it within reach of any end user: no installation on a computer is required as WebAllix is accessible through any Internet browser.
WebAllix also allows to organize a hierarchy of users. An additive supplier can provide an access to internal technical team and its feed manufacturer customers with a formulation platform. As a consequence, the sales representatives of the additive company can use the platform as well as the feed producers which can formulate themselves for their own customers. The formulated feeds can then be directly accessible to the manufacturers for production.
This collaborative work avoids the often tedious and risky step of exchanging by email formula files.
At the prospecting phase, it can be interesting for the additive supplier to have an easy-to-use formulation tool easy to handle and control. In case of success of the prospection, provided this tool can be a competitive advantage as a new service offered. In case of failure, no confidential data or know-how will be lost.
The use of WebAllix also allows the Consultants to give their advice to their customers, who are sometimes not familiar with animal nutrition but who on the other hand use the formulation tools as a support tool to purchase raw materials. Making sure of working with valid data, the simulation possibilities allow to have reliable results to make relevant decisions in this so sensitive field.
To sum up, WebAllix is a very advanced solution that puts formulation within everyone’s reach. In particular, it allows the additive producers to highlight its know-how and to bring an additional service to its existing customers and prospects.
About Bruno Duranthon
Agricultural engineer with a specialty in animal sciences, DESS in Marketing and Management. A first experience in wholesale trade of cereals opens the door of the animal feed industry to him. He joined a company specialised in software geared towards animal feed producers, before incorporating A-Systems with the team he gathered around the formulation software Allix.
