Representing 40% of North American Ethanol Producers, Biofuels Benchmarking™ is the best way for producing ethanol plants to access industry data, insights, and reports.
Our vast database of anonymized data from the past 20 years lets you monitor, analyze, and improve financial, operational, and environmental performance in over 300 areas.
Over 100 facilities throughout the US and Canada have used the service to gain information and insight to measure, assess, compare, and enhance profitability. Our State of the Industry Reports let you analyze your plant to better see how certain changes and trends can cause benefit or harm.
By making aggregated industry and competitor information available to subscribers in an accessible, usable, and comparative format, Biofuels Benchmarking™ is a powerful tool for empowered decision making. The ability to compare a plant’s ethanol production to industry-wide trends allows you to effectively diagnose factors for differential performance.
Biofuels Benchmarking™ empowers decision makers to set priorities and improve processes. Plant leaders get the information they need to justify requests for resources and gain the attention of management.
Our data analysts are available to answer questions, interpret data, and determine factors that can improve operational and financial performance. This timely benchmarking information and our experienced analysts are your key to managing risk, identifying opportunities, and prioritizing resource use.
Subscription Benefits
- Guaranteed confidentiality for all participants.
- Data is collected, verified, and released to subscribers on a quarterly basis.
- Plants enter financial and production data quarterly on a secure website within 30 days of quarter end. Christianson analysts review data and reports are released within 45 days of quarter end.
- Subscriptions are made on an annual basis and include self-serve web access with standard and custom report generation available.
- Annual State of the Industry Report: General trends from the last 12 months so you can plan for the future.
- Annual Labor Survey: Employee compensation insights by job title, salary, and benefit expenses.
Program Features
- Participants are trained in uniform data entry.
- Simplifies the process for financial data analysis requiring multiple calculations. View all at once or save report templates identifying the information most relevant to your plant.
- Custom peer-groupings by size, location, feedstocks, and other demographics to pit your plant performance against comparable groups on the information that matters most. (Industry Averages, Regional and Peer Groupings, Leaders and Laggards performance tiers).
- On site visits available for training, presentation, or interpretation for management, officers, and board.
- Allows you to work with your management teams to identify process changes
- Educates your finance committee
- Provides valuable information your board members and board meeting presentations
- Remote training and troubleshooting support available
- Unlimited user accounts and tiered permission controls.
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