From Data to Decisions:
How Expana Gives You the Edge in Volatile Markets
Global agrifood supply chains have never been more complex. Geopolitical shocks, climate disruption, and regulatory changes hit markets daily. In this environment, raw data alone doesn’t create an edge.
The winners are those who turn signals into action – fast. Yet many businesses still wrestle with outdated reports, fragmented forecasts, and siloed insights.
The result? High-stakes calls made with incomplete information. That’s the problem we set out to solve. Expana is a new kind of commodity intelligence platform: built from the ground up to turn data into foresight, and foresight into confident decisions.
Why Expana? Because Gut Feel Isn’t a Strategy
Even businesses who have managed to turn to data for routine price checks are now at a competitive disadvantage. For too long, critical decisions in agrifood markets have relied on instinct, incomplete reports, or outdated signals. In volatile environments, that approach is costly.
The leaders who win are those using holistic intelligence to anticipate risks, plan proactively, and guide strategic decisions across the business.
We designed Expana to give everyone access to that kind of intelligence-powered decision making. After two years of development and extensive industry testing, the new Expana platform delivers:
This is not another static dashboard. It is a decision engine for 21st-century agrifood markets.
Seven Ways Expana Helps You Compete
1. Make Confident Buying and Selling Decisions
Procurement and sales teams need more than generic forecasts. Expana combines more than 34,000 price series, many exclusive to Expana, nearly 1,500 forecasts and AI-powered cost models into clear signals: When to buy, how much to secure, and which risks to mitigate.
2. Negotiate From a Position of Strength
Negotiations succeed when both sides know their leverage. Expana’s forecasting tools and cost models allow users to quantify their true position in the market. Buyers can secure favorable terms and sellers can optimize timing to protect value.
3. Build Supply Resilience During Disruptions
From avian influenza reducing poultry supply to drought cutting olive oil output, market shocks can upend operations. Expana identifies disruptions early, contextualizes the impact and enables the search for substitutes through its integrated coverage and intelligent search.
4. Budget With Precision
Traditional budgeting often lags behind market reality. Expana’s forecasting and cost modeling tools allow finance and procurement teams to build plans rooted in forward-looking data, not assumptions. This creates alignment across functions and reduces budget variance.
5. Plan Production Strategically
Food producers and processors face constant questions about capacity: when to expand, contract, or hold steady. Expana provides predictive intelligence across 900+ commodities, enabling strategic production choices based on outlooks rather than instincts.
6. Optimize Menus and Product Development
Menu design and product reformulation are powerful levers for protecting profitability. Expana’s cost modeling tools help organizations anticipate shifts and adapt recipes or menus before costs erode margins.
7. Strengthen Financial and Investment Decisions
Investors, banks, and funds increasingly rely on commodity intelligence to anticipate earnings shifts and advise clients. Expana’s blend of human and machine analysis provides timely, credible insight for financial decision-making.
From Data to Decisions:
How Expana Gives You the Edge in Volatile Markets
Global agrifood supply chains have never been more complex. Geopolitical shocks, climate disruption, and regulatory changes hit markets daily. In this environment, raw data alone doesn’t create an edge.
The winners are those who turn signals into action – fast. Yet many businesses still wrestle with outdated reports, fragmented forecasts, and siloed insights.
The result? High-stakes calls made with incomplete information. That’s the problem we set out to solve. Expana is a new kind of commodity intelligence platform: built from the ground up to turn data into foresight, and foresight into confident decisions.
Why Expana? Because Gut Feel Isn’t a Strategy
Even businesses who have managed to turn to data for routine price checks are now at a competitive disadvantage. For too long, critical decisions in agrifood markets have relied on instinct, incomplete reports, or outdated signals. In volatile environments, that approach is costly.
The leaders who win are those using holistic intelligence to anticipate risks, plan proactively, and guide strategic decisions across the business.
We designed Expana to give everyone access to that kind of intelligence-powered decision making. After two years of development and extensive industry testing, the new Expana platform delivers:
This is not another static dashboard. It is a decision engine for 21st-century agrifood markets.
Seven Ways Expana Helps You Compete
1. Make Confident Buying and Selling Decisions
Procurement and sales teams need more than generic forecasts. Expana combines more than 34,000 price series, many exclusive to Expana, nearly 1,500 forecasts and AI-powered cost models into clear signals: When to buy, how much to secure, and which risks to mitigate.
2. Negotiate From a Position of Strength
Negotiations succeed when both sides know their leverage. Expana’s forecasting tools and cost models allow users to quantify their true position in the market. Buyers can secure favorable terms and sellers can optimize timing to protect value.
3. Build Supply Resilience During Disruptions
From avian influenza reducing poultry supply to drought cutting olive oil output, market shocks can upend operations. Expana identifies disruptions early, contextualizes the impact and enables the search for substitutes through its integrated coverage and intelligent search.
4. Budget With Precision
Traditional budgeting often lags behind market reality. Expana’s forecasting and cost modeling tools allow finance and procurement teams to build plans rooted in forward-looking data, not assumptions. This creates alignment across functions and reduces budget variance.
5. Plan Production Strategically
Food producers and processors face constant questions about capacity: when to expand, contract, or hold steady. Expana provides predictive intelligence across 900+ commodities, enabling strategic production choices based on outlooks rather than instincts.
6. Optimize Menus and Product Development
Menu design and product reformulation are powerful levers for protecting profitability. Expana’s cost modeling tools help organizations anticipate shifts and adapt recipes or menus before costs erode margins.
7. Strengthen Financial and Investment Decisions
Investors, banks, and funds increasingly rely on commodity intelligence to anticipate earnings shifts and advise clients. Expana’s blend of human and machine analysis provides timely, credible insight for financial decision-making.
More Than a Platform: A Competitive Edge
We didn’t build Expana to be another database. We built it to be the operating system for strategic agrifood decisions – fast, intuitive, and trusted.
With Expana, organizations move beyond tracking prices to building true resilience and advantage. The platform equips leaders to anticipate risks before they materialize, negotiate from a position of strength, align cross-functional teams around a single source of truth, and unlock growth even in volatile conditions.
In today’s markets, the difference between surviving and leading is the ability to act with clarity, speed, and confidence. That is the edge Expana delivers.
Written by Expana
