Webinar: Formulation to Finance: Building a Connected Feed Operation

How much data are your teams maintaining separately from each other? In the feed mill, disconnected systems slow the response to changing circumstances, add cost, and raise the risk of error. Yet your business is data rich, and it can do far more when it is shared across teams and functions. This webinar looks at how feed businesses can integrate their systems to work together. See how formulation and ERP strengthen each other, and how connections to quality, procurement, scheduling, and finance can improve compliance, traceability, and financial performance.

This webinar will broadcast at 8:00 AM CDT (Chicago) / 2:00 PM BST (London) / 9:00 PM CST (Beijing).

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. Find out where disconnected systems cost you and what the risks are
2. See how a data-rich feed business can put data to work across teams and functions, from the mill floor to finance
3. Investigate the core connection between formulation and ERP, and how each system benefits the other
4. Explore the data connections that can improve quality, compliance, traceability, and financial performance
5. Learn how to turn formulation, manufacturing, and operations into one feedback loop instead of three separate ones
6. See how remote and multi-site access can put the same live view in front of every plant for unified and justified decision-making

This webinar is sponsored by Datacor and presented by Feed Strategy and Feed & Grain.

Speaker Information: 

Ian Mealey, Product Marketing Director for Formulation at Datacor

Ian Mealey, Product Marketing Director for Formulation at Datacor boasts over 30 years of experience with formulation software. His career began after earning a degree in Agriculture and joining a large UK cooperative’s graduate program, where he acquired extensive experience in feed business operations. Ian’s journey progressed from Formulator to Formulations Manager, where he gained crucial hands-on experience. After a decade as a formulator, Ian transitioned to Format International (previously Format Solutions), starting as a Support Specialist. He has since excelled in various roles, including implementation, software product design, and consultation. With over 25 years at Datacor, Ian has collaborated with a global clientele across diverse sectors such as feed, pet food, aqua, premix, and food & beverage. He is passionate about helping customers to optimizing business processes, improve ingredient purchasing strategies, and enhance product quality.

Jamie Mesmer, Lead Solutions Engineer, Animal Nutrition Group at Datacor

Jamie Mesmer grew up on a family farm in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, where she still lives today. She brings more than 25 years of hands-on experience in agricultural operations and finance to her work, having managed the business side of feed manufacturing, retail, and vertically integrated livestock operations before moving into financial leadership roles, including CFO of a diversified agribusiness spanning grain merchandising, soybean processing, crop farming, and biodiesel production. That combination of operational and financial experience shapes her approach today as a Solutions Engineer at Datacor, where she works with feed businesses to connect formulation, manufacturing, and financial systems so teams can make faster, more confident decisions from the mill floor to the front office.