Drive greater profits in your grain value-chain with Artificial Intelligence

Delivering value across the grain value-chain

Paradyn's BlendOpt value-chain optimisation software has been engineered to drive value creation for bulk-commodity operations via the optimisation of stockpiling, processing, logistical and blending decisions - BlendOpt models the desired quality of the final grain product; incorporates commercial aspects e.g., contractual obligations of grain quality to be supplied following blending; the end-use of the grain; location where the parcels are to be blended; storage type constraints; infrastructure available to undertake the blending; whether regulatory controls permit that blending (e.g., rejected grain at the point of loading) as a hard constraint; logistics/transport; and processing/milling activities.

Grain blending is a common industry practice involving the combination of different grain supply sources to obtain characteristics (protein content, etc) that better align with market demand and value.

There are a number of different ways blending occurs within a grain value-chain, where BlendOpt's Artificial Intelligence can illuminate significant value.

Heterogeneous admixture blend optimisation

This type of blending involves different or the same grade of grain being added together to achieve a desired result such as increasing tonnage within a desired quality range - depending on how the grain is stored, the resulting grain can have variability in quality. BlendOpt's Artificial Intelligence engine can design a processing, storage and logistical schedule to control quality variability over time within a desired range, while maximising tonnage.

Homogenised admixture blend optimisation

Where a consistent quality product is desired BlendOpt can design schedules so the output of the processing is suitable for flour mills for milling - BlendOpt can be utilised to automate the discovery of integrated schedules to satisfy desired quality for subsequent processing up-stream within the grain value-chain that factor in storage, processing and logistical considerations.

Managing complexity within the grain value-chain

There are many complex factors affecting the quality of product within the grain value-chain that BlendOpt has been engineered to manage:

• Optimisation of Blend decisions to maximise tonnage production with consideration for quality variability in original parcels.
• Keep desired quality of the final product within a target range.
• Model contractual obligations of grain quality to supplier (e.g. contract penalties and costs)
• Minimise rejected grain at sampling points.
• Modelling of logistical and storage costs across the grain value-chain.

How will you drive performance in your grain value-chain?

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