Give your procurement team one independent view of the market
Independent prices, forecasts and cost models for growing agrifood and beverage businesses, backed by expert insight, so you can negotiate and plan with confidence.
Anders Søndergaard
Head of Global Strategic Procurement
As your team grows, spreadsheets and scattered sources stop keeping up.
Here’s how Expana helps you move past them.
You’re not sure whether the price you pay, or charge, is fair against the market.
See where you stand against the market.
Independent benchmark prices give you a reference point for the prices you pay and charge. Benchmarks are specific to your exact commodity rather than an average price.
Your team is held to a savings number, and finding where spend sits above the market takes too long.
Compare spend with the market.
Benchmark prices let you compare what you pay with the market, and negotiation packs gather the background for the conversations that follow. The savings calculator gives you a quick way to estimate potential savings.
You negotiate with suppliers, and sometimes customers, who bring more market knowledge than you do.
Negotiate with evidence.
Cost models break a finished product into its inputs, so a conversation about an increase can start from the numbers. Benchmarks are specific to your exact commodity rather than an average price. Negotiation packs gather the market background into one download.
Forecasting capability is thin, and markets move before the team can react.
Inform decisions with price projections.
Price projections run out to three years and include a hedging indicator, so planning can start from a longer view. Any decision depends on your own policy and risk profile.
Each buyer uses different sources and a different spreadsheet to build a view.
One platform for the whole team.
Prices, forecasts, cost models and analysis sit on one platform, so every buyer works from the same data. An API feeds your own systems.
What it looks like for your role
Leadership wants to see that procurement is working strategically.
Expana gives executives an independent view of supplier prices and a platform the whole team can use. Benchmarks give leadership a source it can check when it reviews procurement’s work. Start with:
Explain the market to leadership with data that shows its sources.
Prices, price projections and analyst commentary sit in one place, so a procurement leader can explain a price move to leadership and to sales without piecing together packers, suppliers and third parties. Every number comes with its method and its rationale. Start with:
Spend less time sourcing data and more time using it.
Prices, news and analysis sit on one platform, so category managers and analysts can build a view without manual data gathering. Cost models show what drives the cost of a product, and alerts flag when a market shifts. Start with:
Supplier risk and contract timing both depend on knowing where the market stands.
Expana gives supply chain and risk teams benchmark prices for supplier checks, price projections for contract conversations and crop and weather analysis for supply risks. Any decision depends on your own policy and risk profile. Start with:
Finance wants to see what the spend is worth, and how commodity costs affect the budget.
Independent benchmarks give finance a source it can check, and consolidating data providers makes vendor oversight simpler. The savings calculator gives a quick way to estimate potential savings. 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 midmarket food and beverage businesses
Prices, forecasts and cost models for the markets you buy in and the regions you are expanding into, together on one platform. Browse the markets that matter to your business.
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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 leadership review 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 draw on market fundamentals, pricing models and expert interpretation.
Prepare for different market outcomes.
Cost models built with AI, using Expana’s independent price data, show the biggest cost drivers in your products. Expert reports on key market trends add the context.
Put independent numbers behind your next decision
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Questions midmarket 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.