Move procurement from reactive to strategic
Independent prices, forecasts and cost models for enterprise businesses in the agrifood value chain, backed by expert insight and delivered into the systems your teams already use, so you can negotiate and plan with confidence.
Procurement Leader
Walmart
Enterprise procurement is moving from reactive to strategic
Here is how Expana helps your teams make the move.
The board asks what your procurement strategy is worth, and you need numbers it will accept.
Give the board a clearer view of cost.
Independent, audited benchmarks give finance a source it can check, and the savings calculator gives you a quick way to estimate potential savings.
Buying decisions still run week to week on supplier quotes with little forward planning.
Inform buying with price projections.
Price projections run out to three years and include a hedging indicator, so buying strategy can start from price projections rather than supplier quotes. Any decision depends on your own policy and risk profile.
Your buyers sit across the table from suppliers who know the market better than they do.
Give buyers market credibility.
Cost models, negotiation packs and analyst insight give buyers the background to negotiate from knowledge, not assumption.
Your teams are building data and AI platforms, and they need trusted commodity data to put in them.
Feed your own data and AI platforms.
The API delivers Expana data into your data platform, and Expana IQ Connect brings maintained Expana data into the AI tools your teams already use.
Supplier contracts are renegotiated from scratch, and each side brings its own numbers.
Reference an independent benchmark.
Procurement teams can reference an independent benchmark in supplier contracts.
What it looks like for your department
Know the spend is justified, and the numbers behind the budget are sound.
Independent, audited benchmarks give finance a source it can check when it reviews a budget or a renewal, and price projections help inform planning. The savings calculator gives a quick way to estimate potential savings. Start with:
Move the function from reactive to strategic, with independent evidence behind the plan.
Expana gives procurement leaders independent benchmarks, price projections and cost models across every category, plus analyst insight on what is driving each market. Buyers can negotiate from knowledge instead of supplier quotes, and the API feeds your own reporting. Start with:
Spend less time assembling data and more time in the negotiation.
Prices, forecasts and cost models sit in one place, so category managers can build a view for finance and for supplier negotiations without stitching sources together. Alerts flag when a market in your basket moves, and insights give the reason behind price changes. Start with:
Build a view of the market that holds up when it is challenged.
Expana gives analysts independent price series, price projections, cost models and crop and weather analysis, plus analyst commentary on what is driving prices. Our Fundamentals offering adds Stratégie Grains and Tropical Research Services data on grains, oilseeds and softs, drawing on hands-on crop counts. Methodology documentation and API access let your team test the fit against its own work. Start with:
Connect the data once, and keep it inside your standards.
The Data Direct API delivers Expana data into your platform, and Expana IQ Connect brings it into your AI tools. Your security team can review Expana’s SOC 2 report before anything is connected. Start with:
Assurance for your procurement, legal and IT teams
Independently audited benchmarks.
An external auditor reports on whether our price assessment process remains aligned with the IOSCO principles for Price Reporting Agencies. Every number comes with its method and its rationale, so your teams can check where a price comes from.
Security your IT team can review.
Expana’s SOC 2 report gives your security team independent assurance over how Expana handles data. Request a copy from the Trust Center.
Coverage built for enterprise food and beverage businesses
Prices, forecasts and cost models for every commodity in your basket, across every region you buy and sell in, together on one platform. Browse the markets that matter to your business.
40,000+
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1,300+
commodities
25,000+
forecasts
100+
experts reporting on prices
Markets covered
Why Expana
Commodity intelligence, built on independent price reporting.
Independent price reporting.
We hold a mirror to the market, giving buyers, sellers and strategists an independent benchmark, so the number you take into a supplier negotiation or a board meeting has a source behind it. Expana does not buy or sell commodities, so it has nothing to gain from prices rising or falling. Every number comes with its method and its rationale.
Expert intelligence behind every price.
More than 100 experts are embedded in the markets we serve, bringing first-hand intelligence on what moves the prices across your whole basket. If a price moves, we tell you why, so the conversation inside your business starts from the facts. Forecasts combine AI modelling with expert judgement where it counts.
Prepare for different market outcomes.
Cost models built with AI show the biggest cost drivers in your products, and you can test whole product portfolios against different commodity scenarios. Expert reports on key market trends add the context.
Put independent numbers behind your next decision
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Questions enterprise businesses ask
How does Expana help our team buy more strategically?
Expana gives buyers independent market information to inform their decisions. Price projections run out to three years and include a hedging indicator, and analyst insight explains what is driving each market. Any decision depends on your own policy and risk profile.
Can we follow our commodity basket in one place?
Expana covers 1300+ commodities on one platform, with alerts when a market shifts. The Data Direct API feeds the same data into your own systems.
How can Expana data reach our data platform and AI tools?
The Data Direct API delivers Expana data into your platform, and IQ Connect brings Expana data into your own AI tools through MCP. Decisions stay with your team.
How do we know why a price moved?
Market reporters respond rapidly to events, and analysts explain what is driving a price change and what it could mean for your costs. Expana IQ Insights summarise the analyst commentary alongside your price data.