Since 2006, Forest2Market has collected delivered pricing data directly from our member companies' wood settlement systems. This audited, scale-ticket based data service has allowed Forest2Market to develop customized analytical solutions for our customers.

In addition to its standard benchmarkts, Forest2Market can customize benchmark results by adding:

• Area-specific benchmarks.
• Customized executive summaries.
• Peer-group benchmarks, comparing your mill to mills that sell the same end product.
• Trend benchmarks, comparing your mill to the trend average along with the market's high and low averages.
• Trend benchmarks, comparing your mill's managed inventory levels to the prevailing market's level.
• Price-inventory correlations, which provide a benchmark to manage pricing with your managed inventory levels.
• Price-log size correlations to give your company a market price curve equation to manage gate prices, supply agreements, etc. with the varying log sizes that your company encounters day to day.
• Marginal cost curves to give you direction in how the market is reacting to changes in supply and demand and where your company's prices fall along the curve.
• A company-wide procurement expense analysis, companirng how competitive your company is on an expense per ton basis.

Not all analytics are available in all regions. Anti-trust rules may prohibit some requests.

For more information, email or call (704) 540-1440 ext. 17