The Delivered Price Benchmark Service

How does your business measure up?

Participation in the Delivered Price Benchmark Service allows forest products companies to evaluate their performance against their peers in the same geography, of approximately the same size and consuming the same timber product. Benchmark participants use the results to:

  • Identify and capitalize on resource procurement cost saving opportunities
  • Negotiate best prices (buy or sell)
  • Assess facility and/or individual performance
  • Index supply agreements

How Does the Delivered Price Benchmark Work?

How We Collect Data

Participants agree to send actual transacted volumes and prices (wood settlements). Data transfer methods and formats are the same for all participants, thereby allowing apples-to-apples comparisons.

All data is transferred from the settlement system at the participating facility to Forest2Market's database. There is no need for companies to switch software or to make complicated adjustments to the way they are doing business. This system-to-system transfer prevents errors from being introduced into the data.

What We Report

Distribution of reports is limited to participating companies only.

Delivered cost and cost components are benchmarked for:

  • Pine and hardwood pulpwood
  • Pine and hardwood primary and residual chips
  • Pine sawtimber
  • Fuel chips

Each quarter, participants receive:

  • Mill cost rankings by area and southwide
  • Delivery cost segmented by component (stumpage, cut-skid-load, haul, etc.)
  • Woodyard inventory by area — a leading indicator of price movements
  • Procurement costs

Add-On Products

Once you become a benchmark participant, you can also receive custom analytics on a per-analytic basis. No matter how you need your data sliced, diced and analyzed, we have the experience and the expertise needed to help you answer critical questions and solve your most difficult business problems. More information.

Why You Can Trust Us
  • Forest2Market is a neutral and independent third party. We do not buy or sell timber.
  • Participants are required to submit 100 percent of their data. This precludes the possibility that data can be cherry-picked to skew results. In addtition, all data is subject to periodic audit to ensure results are reliable and accurate.
  • Forest2Market has received a favorable anti-trust opinion.
  • For further details about methodology, click here.

How Much Data We Collect

Forest2Market delivers the only credible benchmark in the industry by collecting actual delivered raw material costs and cost components from major forest product companies. We track prices on more than two-thirds of all raw materials crossing the mill gate, about 180 million tons, reported in more than 7 million transactions each year. The delivered cost components tracked include stumpage price, cut-skid-load, haul and commission and overhead.

Introduced in 2006, the Delivered Price/Mill Benchmark Service has since become the industry standard. Today, over twenty-five million tons of raw material moves under supply agreements indexed to this service. Innovative forest product companies supply delivered raw material costs and cost components making our's the only credible benchmark available.

Next Steps

To learn more about resource procurement efficiency:

  • Call 704-540-1440 OR
  • Click here to send an email