Use integrated software to build smarter pet food recipes with multi-step formulation, moisture control, and complete visibility at every stage from raw materials to finished product. Ensure every batch delivers what was formulated.
Ingredient costs and availability can change overnight. BESTMIX® brings forecasting, cost analysis, and formulation flexibility into one platform. So you can monitor raw material availability in real time, spot shortages early, and make data-driven purchasing decisions that keep production running without disruption.
Moisture variability is one of the biggest hidden risks in pet food production. BESTMIX® lets you calculate drying effects directly at the formulation stage at both ingredient and recipe level. So there are no surprises on the production floor. The results: product consistency, precise nutrient balance, reduced waste and recalls, and better efficiency across every batch.
BESTMIX® brings artificial intelligence directly into the production floor. Your operators and quality teams gain an AI co-pilot that continuously analyzes process data, predicts deviations, and recommends optimal temperature, steam and other machine settings in real time. Efficiency and quality no longer depend on who happens to be on shift.
Easily manage multiple brands from a shared core recipe by layering ingredients, swapping additives, and fine-tuning nutritional profiles for each variant, while maintaining full traceability. Stay compliant with market and labeling requirements and give every team clear visibility into recipe changes and final versions.
Formulate the finished product, not just the blend
Build and optimize pet food recipes across blending, extrusion, drying, coating, and packaging. BESTMIX's multi-step formulation automatically accounts for moisture loss, ingredient changes, and nutrient shifts, helping you reduce formulation effort, improve label accuracy, and ensure every finished product meets its formula and nutritional targets.
Ensure consistent quality from raw material to finished product
Centralize specifications, laboratory results, supplier data, and quality checks in a single platform. Monitor ingredient variability, detect deviations faster, and ensure every batch meets nutritional, quality, and regulatory requirements while maintaining consistency across production and supporting continuous improvement.
Connect purchasing, formulation, production, quality and sales in one integrated platform.
Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and enriched with industry-specific expertise, it gives you complete visibility across your operations, improves traceability, simplifies complex supply chains, and enables faster, data-driven decision-making. Helping your business improve efficiency, reduce risks and scale with confidence.
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Develop, optimize, and launch pet food products faster. Model moisture loss, ingredient variability, and production effects to ensure formulations meet nutritional, quality, and cost targets.
Align formulation, manufacturing, and quality control. Improve moisture management, ensure product consistency, maintain compliance, and gain complete visibility from raw materials to finished product.
Turn production data into measurable results. Reduce ingredient costs, improve manufacturing efficiency, optimize performance across sites, and protect margins in a changing market.
See the common questions we got for the pet food industry.
The answer depends on the recipe and the scope of the change. The biggest time savings come from everything that happens around the formulation itself. When a recipe changes, BESTMIX automatically updates specifications, labels, compliance checks, and ERP outputs, eliminating manual handoffs and duplicate work.
For co-manufacturers, this means faster turnaround on customer quote requests. R&D teams handling multiple quote requests each month can compress work that traditionally takes days into hours by removing manual specification updates, label revisions, compliance checks, and ERP updates.
The best way to evaluate the impact is to model one of your own recipes during a BESTMIX demo and compare the workflow with your current process
Yes. BESTMIX supports multi-step formulation within a single recipe. You can model meat preparation, extrusion, coating, slurry preparation, drying, and other production stages, each with its own constraints and optimization settings.
A consolidated view rolls up ingredients and nutrients across every step, while allowing you to optimize individual process stages independently. Ingredients can be moved between steps as processes evolve, and constraints can be managed at both step and recipe level.
For pet food manufacturers, this is especially valuable because rehydration, extrusion, coatings, and inclusions often occur at different stages of production. Instead of only seeing the finished product, you can identify exactly where issues such as moisture variation, nutrient losses, or cost changes originate within the process.
Yes. BESTMIX supports precision formulation using lot-specific ingredient data from NIR systems and laboratory analyses. Before each production run, the optimizer can formulate against the actual composition of the ingredients currently available rather than historical averages.
This helps manufacturers maintain nutritional targets, reduce over-formulation, improve consistency, and control ingredient costs. It's especially valuable for fresh and wet pet food, where raw material composition can vary significantly from lot to lot.
By formulating with real ingredient data instead of average values, teams can make better use of available raw materials while consistently meeting product specifications.
AAFCO nutrient profiles are included in the BESTMIX pet food database. When you select a life stage, such as adult maintenance or growth, the corresponding nutrient requirements and parameters are loaded automatically.
You can apply AAFCO values as active optimization constraints or use them as reference targets during formulation. BESTMIX also allows you to combine AAFCO requirements with your own internal nutritional standards and specifications.
Yes. BESTMIX is multilingual by design. Ingredient declarations, feeding instructions, product information, and other label and specification content can be maintained in multiple languages and reused across products.
When a recipe changes, all configured language versions are automatically updated from the same source. This eliminates the need to manually re-translate specifications and labels, helping prevent inconsistencies between markets and reducing the risk of version drift across product portfolios.
This is especially valuable for manufacturers serving multiple regions, where product documentation must be maintained in different languages while remaining accurate and consistent.
Yes. BESTMIX connects through a public REST API to common ERP, LIMS/NIR lab systems, MES and production systems, PLM, LCA tools such as Opteinics and Sustell, and external label design systems.
Integrations help keep formulation, ingredient, cost, and quality data synchronized across your digital landscape, reducing manual data entry and improving data consistency throughout your operation. Standard JSON and XML export formats are available, and integrations can be adapted to systems that require a different schema.
Yes. BESTMIX supports portfolio optimization across all formulas. Update ingredient prices once, and the system can reoptimize every formula in your portfolio at the same time while staying within approved ingredient ranges.
A single run provides updated costs across the portfolio, updated bills of materials, a consolidated ingredient consumption forecast, and a purchase plan by ingredient and plant. Results can be transferred to your ERP in one step, helping teams respond quickly to changing market conditions without manually updating formulas one by one.
BESTMIX implementations are staged according to the size and complexity of your business, from single-site deployments to global multi-site rollouts.
To minimize risk, customers typically run BESTMIX in parallel with existing systems before go-live, allowing teams to validate results while production continues uninterrupted. Multi-site deployments often begin with a pilot site before expanding to additional locations, while global rollouts are delivered in phases using a centralized configuration approach.
Implementation includes system setup, recipe migration, training, and integration support, with deployment timelines tailored to the scope of the project.
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