Primenumbers.co.uk

How it works

Basic Questions

What is it?

Who’s it for?

How does it work?

How do I get started?

What is it?

primenumbers.co.uk enables Feed Manufacturers and merchants to compare: Buying performance (incl forward cover) Feed Margins Feed Production Costs Transport Costings & Productivity

- On a confidential basis

- Via the Internet

- Showing “you” vs sector Average, Max & Min

- Plus League tables

Who’s it for?

Any UK Feed Business can register as a Member

All applications for Membership are “authorised” by PMS

Once authorised, you will have a unique Username and Password

These are used to ensure secure access to results and data submission

Results are only available to those providing data

How does it work?

You can input data for any scheme for which you are “authorised”

This could be just for Buying & Margins

OR .. Transport

OR .. Feed Production Costs

OR .. Any combination you want

The registration process allows you to choose whatever is appropriate for your own business

How? continued

Next you you can add

Additional “users” in your company and give them appropriate Data Submission and/or Viewing rights

Locations- For example you may wish to put in productions costs for more

than 1 mill or you could have a number of transport depots/divisions

Each user can have View/Submit rights for specified scheme and location combinations

How? continued

If you are submitting data then you need a special “Plug-in” to enable you to see forms and fill them in

You will see where to get these from on the website

Then load the appropriate form from the web & fill it in

Don’t forget to print it off

Hit the “submit” button and “send for review”

This sends an email to PMS saying you have sent some data

We will do a few checks on your submission

We may ask you to review any possible anomalies

If so, you can recall your original submission off the web and amend it

How? continued

Otherwise we will “publish” the submission and it will go into the main database

Usually we will do this in batches

Then, when there are enough participants you will be alerted by email and be able to look at the results

When looking at results you can apply various “filters” and get insights into any sub-sets you choose

How? continued

To see anything, there must be at least 5 participants (Holding Companies) contributing to the chosen/filtered dataset

For any specific data cell, there have to be at least 3 “answers”

If not, the results are suppressed

Data Input

Here are some example screenshots of how you enter data

Press the “Tab” key to

go to the next cell when filling data

This is the Submit button

This is the Print button

Here you can Save the file

If the form is more than 1 page, this is

where you go to “Next page”

Data Output

Plus how the output looks!!

Graphs too!!Feed Production cost elements

£-

£1.00

£2.00

£3.00

£4.00

£5.00

£6.00

£7.00

Deprec'n Dies,Rollers

Electricity Gas &Fuel

Labour OtherMaint

OtherProd'n

QA

£/t

..

19

98

Avg max min My data

Cumulative Production Costs .. £/tCum Production Costs

£-

£5.00

£10.00

£15.00

£20.00

£25.00

Avg max min Mydata

£/t

QA

Other Prod'n

Other Maint

Labour

Gas & Fuel

Electricity

Dies, Rollers

Deprec'n

-£25 -£20 -£15 -£10 -£5 £- £5 £10 £15 £20

Barley

Beet Pulp

Biscuit

Cotton

Dairy fat

Dist Mze Grains

Fishmeal 64%

Gluten

Herring 71%

Maize

Molasses

NI Straw

Palm kernel

Peas

Poultry fat

Rape

Soya Braz

Soya Full Fat

Soya Hi Pro

Sunflower 29%

Sunflower 32%

Threonine

Wheat

Wheatfeed

Last month’s buying price

Variance (My Price) vs

Average

Better Worse

Wheat .. Forward Cover %

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Months ahead

max

Avg

My data

min

Wheat Forward Cover Prices .. £/t

£60.00

£65.00

£70.00

£75.00

£80.00

£85.00

£90.00

Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6 >6Months

My data Min Avg Max

How do I get started?

Go to the registration area of the website

Answer a few basic questions and put in the username and password you want to use

Tell us which schemes you want to register for

We will then “authorise” you

You can then start using the system .. 365 days/yr & 7 days per week

Its as simple as that

More Information

Go to the “Forum” area of the website where you can: Post email enquiries

Start a discussion with other users

Make suggestions for improvements

And so on