Meat & Protein Supply Chain Optimisation
Standard ERP systems are built for discrete assembly—where ten parts make one product. Protein manufacturing is an inverse, perishable disassembly challenge where every animal yields fixed co-products ticking against shelf-life clocks.
Weekly Kill Intake: 1,450 Head • Push/Pull Matrix
Carcass Balance & Disassembly Control
Synchronise livestock intake push with volatile multi-channel customer pull (retail, foodservice, wholesale & export). Dynamically balance hindquarters, forequarters, and trim allocations to minimise costly fresh-to-frozen downgrades and distressed spot sales.
- Whole-carcass push/pull end-customer margin optimisation
- Co-product & trim allocation balancing across channels
Maturation & Shelf-Life Horizon Planning
Manage minimum maturation windows alongside strict customer maximum site-life and specification rules. Gain forward visibility of Days of Stock on Hand (DOSH) across customisable time horizons (7 days to 3 years) for fresh, vacuum-packed, and aged primal inventories.
- Automated min-maturation & max-life alerts
- Fresh & frozen DOSH control across customisable time horizons (7 days to 3 years)
Deboning, Portioning & Case Ready Meat (CRM) Sequencing
Optimise line PPM speeds, crew headcounts, BOM recipe yields, and allergen/pack-format changeovers across high-speed case-ready, foodservice, wholesale, and B2B portioning lines.
- Line PPM, labour crew & changeover optimisation
- Synchronised primal-to-customer pack scheduling
Promotional, Seasonal & Weather Volatility Modelling
Run rapid what-if scenarios for barbecue weather spikes, festive inventory builds, and customer demand surges across retail, foodservice, and wholesale accounts before committing to external primal purchases.
- Interactive customer demand & yield What-If sandboxes
- External boxed buy vs. internal kill trade-offs
Maximising Whole-Carcass Profit All the Way to the End Customer
Illustrative simulation demonstrating how BD Solutions connects livestock forecasting, boxed meat top-ups, carcass-to-customer valorisation, DOSH maturation, CRM/B2B finite sequencing, and customer OTIF.
Stage 1: Forward Livestock Forecasting & Surgical Boxed Meat Top-Ups
BD connects forward multi-channel customer pull (retail, foodservice, wholesale & export) directly back to livestock forecasting—guiding farm intake specs weeks ahead and blending whole-animal kill with surgical boxed meat top-ups to achieve the ideal cut mix without flooding chillers.
Livestock buyers book animals on historical run-rates or over-kill spot stock to cover single-primal demand spikes.
Forward livestock forecasting aligned to customer demand (retail, foodservice, wholesale & B2B) + surgical boxed meat top-ups to achieve the ideal mix.
End-to-End Weekly Profit Bridge (Click Any Row)
Ex-Abattoir Silos vs. End-Customer Optimisation
Driven by forward livestock forecasting + surgical boxed meat top-ups, end-customer carcass valorisation, DOSH control across customisable time horizons (7 days to 3 years), and finite CRM & customer pack sequencing.
Proven Across Tier-1 UK & Australian Protein Leaders
From leading national DELMIA Quintiq implementations across multi-site red meat divisions in Australia to deploying bespoke primal and finished-goods planning engines for UK food manufacturers, we understand yield variance first-hand.