Consumer Goods - Meditations
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Nov 8, 2022 · 3 min read
Risk Management: Improve your input costs using Descartes Labs Vegetable Oils package
In summer 2022, the price of the soybean oil contract on CME reached an all-time high, with the Jan-2023 contract almost touching the 80 cts/lb mark. Under such inflationary pressures, input costs from soybean oil and other vegetable oils have almost doubled when compared to 2020. These past months, using the insights and recommendations from the Descartes Labs Vegetable Oils package helped our customers' procurement managers to reduce their input costs under those rapidly changing macroeconomic conditions.
May 23, 2022 · 3 min read
Unlocking Climate and Sustainability Action with Remote Sensing
Descartes Labs' Applied Scientist Rose Rustowicz shares insights with members of The Sustainability Consortium at TSC Summit 2022
Apr 5, 2022 · 3 min read
Announcing Packaged Analytics for Four New Commodities
Price forecasts, market insights, and purchasing recommendations for London Cocoa, Coffee Arabica, Corn, and Soybean Oil.
Dec 9, 2021 · 6 min read
Leveraging Geospatial Imaging and Data to Track Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss
Presented during the AllianceBernstein ESG Conference on Biodiversity: Turning earth observations into supply chain analytics.
Nov 18, 2021 · 1 min read
A Smart Way to Pay for Sustainability Initiatives
The same geospatial data that anticipates and mitigates price fluctuations can protect and enhance your environmental reputation.
Sep 8, 2021 · 3 min read
Calculating Mill Level Deforestation & Carbon Risk Scores Across the Palm Supply Chain
Illustrating the power of the Descartes Labs Platform to explore agricultural traceability challenges
Jun 24, 2021 · 5 min read
Quantifying the Intuitive: How Geospatial Data Helps Forecast Commodity Prices
Vaccine rollouts and sluggish supply chains still facing pandemic-related restrictions drove increased demand in the first half of 2021 for basic commodities like soybeans, sugar, vegetable oils, meat, and dairy.