How AFOS can help feed mills
AFOS gives nutritionists and plant teams one place to formulate, analyze prices, manage labels and quality, and plan production. Reduce ingredient spend and release formulas faster using live lab data, scenario exploration, approvals, and audit trails.
Ingredient import and update
In feed production, ingredient analyses change frequently, and outdated matrices can affect both cost and quality.
AFOS makes it simple to keep your nutrient data current: pull real-time lab values directly through LIMS or API connectors, import bulk CSV or Excel files, or create new raw materials in seconds using smart templates.
Every update is tracked with full versioning and audit trails, so your formulations, labels, and compliance reports always reflect the latest data. This reduces over formulation, ensures consistent quality, and empowers nutritionists to design optimized feeds for all animal types.
Cost reduction
AFOS reduces cost per ton by modeling real plant conditions and the full cost structure.
It accounts for processing yields, evaporations, moisture loss, and ingredient dependencies, and it also includes additional production costs such as energy, pelleting, drying, grinding, micro-dosing, labor, packaging, and changeovers in the optimization.
Sensitivity analysis with shadow and boundary prices shows which constraints and raw materials drive cost, while scenario comparisons and configurable rounding rules reveal the lowest feasible mix. With transparent cost attribution and over-formulation controls, nutritionists can remove unnecessary safety margins, choose smarter substitutions, and defend every decision with data.
Scenario explorer
Volatile prices and limited availability make it hard to balance nutrition and cost.
AFOS lets you explore what if scenarios in a few clicks: swap ingredients and suppliers, toggle constraint sets, switch price lists, and batch reformulate dozens of formulas against current or forecasted markets.
Compare alternatives side by side with cost per ton, margin impact, nutrient variance, and feasibility warnings. Save promising scenarios, label them, and promote the winner to production with versioning, approvals, and rollbacks.
Teams save hours per release, reduce inventory carry, and raise margins with faster, evidence based decisions.
Create formula variants easily
Build a clean master formula and spin off variants for specific goals such as growth performance, special diets, or medicated feeds without multiplying recipes.
In AFOS, variants inherit the master’s ingredients, constraints, and labeling data, so when you update the master every linked variant can refresh automatically. When needed, override a single variant to add or substitute additives, apply layer-on changes, or rebalance other ingredients to stay on spec.
The streamlined interface lets you compare variants side by side, validate specs and labels, and release with versioning and approvals. You get faster changeovers, fewer errors, and consistent products across mills and markets.
Work together across locations
AFOS gives multi-site and global teams a single workspace where nutrition, QA, purchasing, and production work on the same live data.
Each user can view values in preferred units and languages while the system maintains one canonical dataset, so kg or lb, g per kg or percent, MJ or Mcal all stay consistent. Roles and permissions protect sensitive formulas, and approvals, comments, version history, and audit trails keep every change transparent.
You can grant limited access to external partners when needed, standardize workflows across mills, and release faster without passing spreadsheets around.
Formulate premixes with precision
AFOS lets you design premixes based on the nutritional requirements of the end product, while accounting for the inclusion rate of the premix itself.
This ensures the premix delivers exactly the right balance of nutrients for its intended function, without over or under supplying. You can extract premixes or panels directly from a compound feed or a complex formula, generate complete recipes, and then apply premixes or panels back to the original formula or another formula. Every variation stays consistent and scientifically accurate, giving nutritionists full control and flexibility without extra manual work.
Control moisture in pet food recipes
Controlling moisture in pet food is critical for product quality, shelf life, and compliance.
AFOS allows you to calculate drying and evaporation effects directly in the formulation process, configuring constraints not only on the mix but on the final finished product. Moisture adjustments can be applied at both the ingredient level and the recipe level, so drying effects are inherited and respected automatically.
This ensures that every batch meets the targeted moisture range, reduces variability, and helps you deliver consistent products that meet nutritional and regulatory requirements.
Quality control and compliance
AFOS builds quality into every stage of feed production.
Nutritionists can set preset regulatory and nutritional boundaries so every formula is validated before release, protecting against invalid label claims while still allowing flexibility in a volatile ingredient market. Quality control teams link lab analyses directly into formulation, updating nutrient matrices automatically for high-variability ingredients and confirming compliance with validation reports.
Production managers gain clear visibility over raw materials and finished feeds, with instant alerts if deviations occur. This integrated approach keeps products compliant, batches consistent, and releases on time.
Integrations across the feed value chain
AFOS is designed to be the central hub of animal feed production, connecting seamlessly with systems before and after formulation.
Integrate with plant automation, PLCs, and SCADA to ensure production executes exactly as formulated, and connect to MES and ERP platforms for scheduling, purchasing, and resource planning. Link with logistics, accounting, and SAP for financial and supply chain visibility, or use custom connectors built by our team to match your unique workflows.
With AFOS, every step — from ingredient sourcing to batch release and delivery — is unified in one digital flow.