MCI Global Food Category Dashboard

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They enable procurement, sales & finance teams to understand how prices are moving across a range of commodities to spot inflationary or deflationary trends.

BOURNE END, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, April 15, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Mintec Category Indices (MCI) are enabling food procurement teams to track price pressures affecting their raw materials and food production costs.

Food procurement professionals in every industry are currently under extreme pressure to try to assess the current status of their supply chains, and the likely impacts of the progress of the coronavirus pandemic. Business leaders are also struggling to make immediate decisions on a huge range of issues, including availability, pricing, sourcing and disruption in raw materials and foods.

The 46 new MCI’s are specifically designed to measure the changes in price for a group of core food and beverage categories. The indices cover global, regional and specific country prices for dairy, eggs, cereals and bakery, hot beverages, fish, fruit, vegetables, meat and poultry, juices, oils and fats, confectionery, packaging and nuts.

The MCI enable procurement, sales and finance teams to understand how prices are moving across a range of commodities and to see whether a category is exhibiting an inflationary or deflationary trend. The Mintec Category Indices can be used to benchmark buying teams and suppliers against an independent market reference for core categories.

“By blending the raw material prices, our MCI provides a uniform approach for the key sectors in the food and beverage supply chains to compare commodity prices," said Spencer Wicks, CEO of Mintec.

The indices cover the key categories that our manufacturing and retailing clients are typically organised around in their purchasing structures.

The MCIs are published in the native currency for each region or country, to allow for currency fluctuations and direct comparison across all price series. Each one has been weighted based on the significance of each commodity included, providing an accurate direction of price changes.

These new indices are provided alongside 14,000 commodity prices already published by Mintec as part of its online SaaS platform, Mintec Analytics.

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