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Delivered Price Benchmark - US South

Forest2Market's Forest2Mill Delivered Price Benchmarks provide subscribers with the market intelligence they need to increase their profits:

  • Track price changes and identify trends in a dynamic market
  • Negotiate raw material and residual price changes with actual market-based transaction data
    • Determine specific pricing for preferred raw material profiles
    • Gain efficiency in raw material acquisition
  • Secure and stabilize supply agreements
    • Position yourself for growing demand from emerging technologies
    • Improve vendor loyalty and relationships
  • Compare pricing to the “market-at-large” utilizing actual transaction data
    • Quantify raw material procurement costs by component
    • Measure results against the broader market
    • Identify performance improvement opportunities
    • Establish facility and individual performance objectives
  • Determine intra-company transfer prices
  • Improve internal and investor communications

 

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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
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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 seven million transactions each year. Introduced in 2006, the Delivered Price Benchmark Service has since become the industry standard. Today, over 25 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 ours the only credible benchmark available.

Benchmark Areas for the US South

Forest2Market Delivered Price Benchmark South

Forest2Market Delivered Price Benchmark South

 

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