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BESTMIX Feed: Least-cost

formulation and optimisation software


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BESTMIX

Feed

Least-cost formulation and optimisation software

The current Internet age offers a host of new possibilities for developing a

perfect partnership with your customers: optimum communication,

the prompt generation and provision of decision-support information, etc.

As a feed producer you will rightly be wondering whether your current

formulation package capitalises adequately on this and will offer you

sufficient continuity in the future.

BESTMIX is an advanced least-cost formulation and optimisation

package. The package has been known for years throughout the world for

its extremely powerful functions. Now, thanks to the latest technologies,the strength of this package has also been combined with a highly

practical and extremely user-friendly user interface.

Best quality at lowest prices

With BESTMIX Feed you get the most out of critical data to help your customers achieve their goal: top

performance of their animal stock.

The existing BESTMIX package has been completely re-developed.

now for Window

the new-generation software combines power with ease of use;

thanks to easy data conversion, the smooth transfer of your current

formulation software to BESTMIX Feed is guaranteed.

Ease of use above all

BESTMIX Feed has been designed with the principle of Windows Explorer in mind. In BESTMIX Feed, there

are no traditional screen menus. You navigate directly through the data. Thanks to filters, you can very

quickly find the data you are looking for and then process them directly. You can also manage all

the information related to one data-element on one single screen. That means no more switching between

different screens all the time! As for the more complex functions, built-in Wizards will guide you step by step

to your desired end result.

Easy to learn

BESTMIX Feed is easy to learn. You will immediately recognise the look and feel of the current Office

applications. This will allow you to start using the package straight away. New users and temporary staff will

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also be productive from the word go. Even users who only use BESTMIX Feed occasionally will also feel

immediately at home with the package. And if you have a question, just look it up in the extensive on-line

help. Quick and convenient!

No frontiers

BESTMIX Feed is a multilingual product. The user interface can be translated into any language.

Four languages come as standard. In addition, data descriptions can be entered in multiple languages.

This means that all users can use the system in their own language. Reports too are multilingual. This lets

you keep your customers up-to-date via quality reports in their own language. Satisfied compound feed

companies from more than 60 countries use BESTMIX Feed to develop a perfect partnership with their

customers - in their own language!

Create your own house style

All reports are designed graphically within BESTMIX Feed. You can choose which fonts and typestyles you

want to use. BESTMIX Feed comes with a large number of standard reports. As a user you can adapt

the layout of these reports to your liking. For example, you can integrate company logos and other graphics

into your reports, thereby creating your own instantly recognisable house style. You can also define

your own remarks or informations, which can then be printed out on the reports as you wish.

Integration with Office

BESTMIX Feed is extensively integrated with Microsoft Office. Any table can be exported to an Excel sheet.Reports can be e-mailed to colleagues or customers. In this case, reports are sent as PDF files. You can

also attach Office documents to specific data elements. These documents can then be consulted within

BESTMIX Feed. In this way you can create a link between a data element and additional information on

the Web.

Communication

BESTMIX Feed can use any printer set up in the Windows operating

system. This means you do not need to set any extra parameters in order to

print your reports. The report component helps you generate documents thatcan be published directly on the Internet. This makes it easier to keep

your Intranet or Internet site up-to-date.

With this component, you can also quickly and easily create export files. Each report can be exported in

different formats, e.g. in PDF, Word, Excel, Text or HTML format. This means that at any time, you can send

data to other packages, update your website or modify your brochure.

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E-Mail Message Printer Output

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Optimum data management

BESTMIX Feed uses an open database: no more data restrictions! You can

combine the data into data groups, making it easy to find specific data files. As auser, you can also create new databases yourself. This can be useful if you want to

set up a test environment independently of your operational data files. Another

advantage of using open databases is that data protection can now be included in

your standard company operating procedures. This means you always have a

recent backup of your data.

Extensive search function

If you are unable to find a data file in the database, you can specify extensive search criteria with the 'find'

function and perform a targeted search. For example, you can search for ingredients with a protein contenton a product basis greater than 15%. Or you can search for ingredients that were amended this week.

Automatic processing

You have the option of defining 'Jobs'. Within a 'Job' you can specify which actions must be carried out.

You can have these 'Jobs' carried out later or automatically using the Communication Service's 'Scheduler'

function.

For example, you can automatically optimise a number of recipes, convert these recipes into production

orders and automatically generate the required labels in the required languages.

Multi-site

BESTMIX Feed allows you to manage the data for several plants. In other words, you can define an

unlimited number of plants and then manage analysis values, prices and availability for each plant.

The production orders and associated labels are generated for each plant. You can use different templates

for each plant, which means the relevant information for each plant is available in a distinctive, recognisable

form.

From family business to multinational ...

For more than 30 years, ADIFO has been supplying innovative profit-consolidating optimisation tools on

a world-wide level. Through practical experiences being exchanged between people from both small and

large firms over many years, BESTMIX Feed has developed into a world-leader in its sector. Thanks to

BESTMIX's modular structure, you only purchase the components you really need. If you are looking for

user-friendly software that can respond to your organisation's every growth, choose BESTMIX Feed.

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Sales support

BESTMIX Feed can be installed both on central computer systems and on personal laptops. This makes

BESTMIX perfect for use in supporting the external services in their commercial activities.

If you have implemented BESTMIX in this way, and are

therefore using multiple installations of BESTMIX Feed, you

can synchronise data between all these installations

through the Communication Manager. In this way you

ensure that the data on the various systems are always

up-to-date. This allows the updated data in the central

system to flow automatically to the external services

versions and vice versa.

The most important function available for these field workers is 'Ration optimisation and calculation' and

'liquid feeding'.

In modern animal feeding, a close eye is kept on feed costs and

the composition of the feed. Each farm is aiming to give its stock

the best possible ration at the lowest possible cost. In practice this

means that you are looking for the optimum ration that consists of

farm's own roughages, wet concentrates and concentrates.

The concentrates must be tailored to the greatest extent possible to

the quality of the roughages and the performance of the livestock.

BESTMIX Feed allows you to simultaneously optimise the

composition of the ration and the composition of the complement.

This guarantees the farmer the lowest possible feed cost!

This also enables you to provide the farmer with accurate

advice in relation to the purchase ofby-products so that he

only buys those with the desired quality and feed value at

the right price.

Integrating this functionality into your central optimisation

package means that all the central data are available to

optimise precisely that 'concentrate' which the farmer needs

to get the most from his animals.

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BESTMIX Feed creates a bridge between

the farmer's need to produce top-quality animals and

the economic reality of the farm and the market.


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BESTMIX Multiblend

MULTIBLEND is a least cost formulation technique, used by purchasers and productions managers to

determine the optimal ingredient allocation. For many years now, this proven tool is a standard and a mustfor every feed compounder.

By combining the experience and the insight of purchasers and production managers, in their demanding

role in leading feed companies, with the possibilities of todays information technology, ADIFO has lifted this

tool to a higher standard.

Advantages

The high level of interactivity enables the user to explore every detail, to change it and to restart the least

cost optimisation. The powerful solver gives an instant result, so that you can evaluate many

alternatives. This way, your purchase and production decisions are solidly founded and your job

efficiency increases.

Thanks to the possibility to integrate the input and the output in only one form, you can keep track of thesituation at all times.

The priority rule makes sure that the current ingredient stock will be used first before additional

quantities are purchased. This extremely powerful function is very time-saving and avoids the task of

having to enter global constraints to control the ingredient flow in the company.

BESTMIX Multiblend is the first least cost formulation software that integrates the optimisation results

into a multidimensional information cube. This modern and advanced tool gives you full drilldown

functionality to the optimisation results. This way, you obtain full insight in relevant data, without getting

tied up in details.

Multiblend is perfectly integrated in the production workflow. You can therefore automatically generate

production orders and declaration labels of the modified compounds. The time to production is thus

reduced to a minimum.

This MULTIBLEND optimisation module of BESTMIX is an empowering and time-saving solution.

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BESTMIX Feed: The core functionality

From compound feed to product . . .

BESTMIX Feed makes things ultra-easy for you, because the functions for managing and optimising

compound feeds are combined in a single screen. This means that you can call all the functions for

adding and removing ingredients, introducing restrictions, optimising, etc. from this one screen.

For each ingredient, you will also see the key nutrients. Using the 'nutrient selector' you can choose

which nutrients you wish to see. This allows you to make an initial check of the accuracy of the data

you are using.

From here you can also zoom in on the details of an ingredient. At that point you have access to all

the information on the ingredient. After making your adjustments, you return to the main form, where

the changes are incorporated and applied.

The optimisation result consists of the composition as well as the analysis. Both are on a single form.

This means you can directly see the effects of a change in ingredient requirements on the analysis and

changes to the nutrient requirements on the composition.

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Compound feed:

Composition

Analysis

Sensitivity

Extra Nutrients

Product:

Composition

Rounded

Batch weight

Dosing parameters

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. . . from product to label:

The process of converting an optimised composition into a usable production recipe is known as rounding.

During this process, the optimal composition is recalculated on the basis of pre-entered dosing parameters.

A historical record of the product thus obtained is created. This means you always have access to

the history of successive products. Each product also has its own declaration. You can therefore generate

labels interactively for each product. These labels can contain graphic elements such as logos, barcodes,

images, etc. The composition, analysis, costs and texts are generated automatically. You can then adjust

layout and content alike to your own requirements.

Layout: what you see is what you get:

Data selection:

Label:

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BESTMIX Feed: what does it mean for you?

BESTMIX Feed is a multifunctional package. Is your business large? Is it small? Do some people perform

more than one function each? No matter. All functions within your firm will benefit from this package.Every department has constant access to up-to-date information and everyone can see precisely

the information they require.

Management

In the current business climate you as a manager are striving on the one hand for greater efficiency and

savings and on the other to strengthen your corporate organisation further.

By using BESTMIX Feed, the various departments have access to up-to-date information at all times,

which means they are perfectly in tune with each other and can therefore work much more efficiently.

You also have a product archive that contains highly interesting decision-support information.

Nutrition

As a nutritionist you are on the front line between purchasing and production. With the powerful functions

BESTMIX Feed offers, you can adapt compound feeds to changing circumstances quickly and flexibly.

BESTMIX Feed also enables you to manage and if necessary modify the underlying feed value

calculation formulas in a highly readable form.

From R&D you can monitor scientific developments in relation to feed and translate these to your own

situation. It is extremely important for you that all research of relevance to your business, both internal

and external, is in a structured manner and is available for the decision-making model for purchasing and

production.

For you, BESTMIX Feed means:

That you can generate the required data at the push of a button;

That you can react quickly to changing nutritional opinions;

That you can react quickly to changed production situations.

Purchasing

Never before has optimisation been so accessible and easy. BESTMIX Feed enables you to assess

alternative ingredients in the main compound feeds so that you can make the right purchasing decisions.

You can select your own database so that your simulations never conflict with current production recipes.

Production

BESTMIX Feed gives you the quantities for the recipes to be produced. These data can be provided in

the form of structured reports or sent to the processing computer electronically. This gives you a

complete overview of the compound feeds to be produced and you can be sure that the new production

recipes are sent to the processing computer without error.

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Sales / controlling

To be able to draw up effective plans you need to pre-calculate short-term and medium-term margins.

With BESTMIX Feed you can calculate accurate gross margins based both on production compositionsand on optimised compositions.

Quality control

By linking the lab's quality parameters back to BESTMIX Feed, you can compare and if necessary adjust

the discrepancies between the analysis values used and the required quality at any time.

ICT

BESTMIX Feed is installed and updated fully automatically. This keeps the installation time to

a minimum. When a new version is installed, the data are automatically converted.

BESTMIX Feed can be integrated perfectly into your organisation. Data can be exchanged between

BESTMIX Feed and external applications via the Communication Manager.

Thanks to its 3-tier architecture, BESTMIX Feed can also be used as an underlying application for Web

applications.

BESTMIX Feed can be used as a single-user or multi-user package. As a single-user, BESTMIX Feed

can easily be installed on a laptop. As a multi-user version, BESTMIX Feed can be installed on

the network or on a central Terminal Server or Citrix Server.

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Contact usWe can be contacted at one of our offices below.

Belgium and international

Adifo N.V., Industrielaan 11b, B-9990 Maldegem, Belgium

Tel: +32 (0)50 303 211 Fax: +32 (0)50 711193

The Netherlands

Ofida B.V., Postbus 5486, 6802 EL Arnhem, The NetherlandsTel: +31 (0)26 3653506 Fax: +31 (0)26 3653507

Germany

Adifo GmbH, Schlachthofstrae 4, 38855 Wernigerode, Germany

Tel: +49 (0)3943 935670 Fax: +49 (0)3943 935666

[email protected] www.adifo.com

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