Scarce and surplus ingredients are allocated to achieve the minimum overall cost. Multi-Mix can be used to plan production, ingredient purchasing and trading. It consistently reduces the total Raw Material cost for a single period production schedule.
New algorithms using three prices take account of buying, stock and selling prices and quantities.
Multi-Mix advises on trading opportunities, balancing potential profits and losses on sales against the value of ingredients when used in production. The programs link with other management systems such as account packages and are designed to transfer to other hardware or operating systems as information technology further develops.