Feed formulation for any species, not a poultry program with others bolted on

Building the ration

• One press and you have the cheapest ration that meets every limit you set.
• Every nutrient is yours to bound, and every ingredient is yours to control.
• Hold two nutrients in proportion: whichever pair your specification is written around.
• Keep whole families of ingredients inside the share of the formula you want them at.
• Work as fed or on dry matter, and switch the whole formula between them.
• No hidden ceilings. A blank maximum genuinely means unrestricted: nothing is capped behind your back.
• Try a quoted price against the formula before you commit to buying at it.
• Try a different nutrient value when a delivery tests off-book: rebuild that one formula on it, with your database untouched.
• Pin an ingredient at an exact inclusion, or shut it out of a formula entirely.
• Electrolyte balance and the cation–anion difference, computed from the salts themselves.
• As many formulas as you run, filed in folders you name.
• Choose what each formula shows: only the ingredients and nutrients that formula uses.
• Daily intake per bird beside every nutrient, once you enter the feed intake.

When a ration will not come together

• It tells you which of your limits is the problem, by name, instead of only that it failed.
• It offers a correction you can accept and rebuild: even when no single limit is at fault on its own.
• Your previous result stays on screen while you sort it out.

Knowing what it costs you

• Which limits are actually holding the price up, ranked by what each is costing you.
• What one step of any nutrient is worth, in both directions, before you commit to it.
• Name a saving per bag and it finds the way to it, or tells you honestly there isn’t one.
• Take a price or a limit right across a range and see the ration rebuilt at every step, side by side.
• What an unused ingredient would have to cost to earn a place: your number for the negotiation.
• How much room each limit has before your ration changes.
• A pellet-quality reading for the mix you just built, from your own factor table.

Your own data

• Work with any nutrient you use. Create it and it behaves exactly like the ones supplied.
• Have a nutrient worked out for you from the others, across the database or for one ingredient on its own.
• Formulate on your own laboratory results rather than a book table, with the statistics behind them.
• Keep separate databases side by side: a species, a customer or a supplier in each.
• Bring your data in and take it out as ordinary spreadsheets.
• Or read the spreadsheet you already keep, Excel, CSV or a table pasted out of one, in whatever layout it is in, with every column shown to you to correct before anything is written.
• Edit one nutrient across every ingredient from a single list, without opening each one.
• Your own ingredient categories, renamed and reordered as you want them sorted.
• Send chosen ingredients to another plant, prices and all, without touching what is there.

Running the mill

• One stock position across every ration you produce, with days of cover and a run-out date.
• Record what you actually made and stock follows it, day by day.
• Raise a purchase order and receive it; stock and cost move with it.
• A dated statement of stock and its value, for any day or period you name.
• More than one store, counted separately and together.
• A PIN over the screens you would not want touched.
• As many price lists as you keep, compared side by side with the cheapest source marked.
• Tax handled per ingredient, and carried into every cost the program shows.

What you hand over

• A technical report and a client summary from the same formula: you choose what appears.
• A mixing ticket the operator can work from on the floor, and sign.
• Save a blend as a single ingredient and use it in any formula.
• Put any number of formulas side by side, all costed on today’s prices.
• Your letterhead or ours, previewed in the program, printed or saved as PDF.
• Keep a ration in the archive with the prices of the day, and re-open or re-cost it later.
• Type in what was actually mixed and see exactly what that mixture is.

How it runs

• Runs on an ordinary Windows computer; nothing you enter leaves it. Your key is confirmed at start-up, then no connection is used.
• Any currency, chosen once and applied everywhere.
• Several plants in one installation, each with completely isolated data.
• Perpetual licence on a security key: bought once, moves between computers, checked at start-up and then offline.
• A guided tour and a written guide built in, so nobody has to be trained by phone.
• A calculator in the header, for the sum you would otherwise do on paper.