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Analytical Cornerstone (cost benchmarking)

  • What is Fastmarkets' cost benchmarking?
  • What is Analytical Cornerstone?
  • Where can I find the Fastmarkets cost benchmarking methodology?
  • What does Cash Cost contain?
  • What is the difference between price and cost?
  • How does Fastmarkets RISI do the cost benchmarking?
  • How many mills are cost benchmarked?
  • How do I compare two, three or more specific mills with each other in Analytical Cornerstone?
  • What does Direct Cost contain?
  • What does Total Cost contain?
  • What does the EBIDTA Cost curve contain?
  • What is the difference between Cost Date and Balance Date?
  • What is an integrated mill? How can I find integrated mills?
  • How can I compare the cost for several quarters?
  • What can the Quick Scenario tool do?
  • What can an Advanced Scenario do?
  • What does the Reline Baseline Data do?
  • What can the Scenario Matrix do?
  • When to change the Balance Date if I use an older Cost Date?
  • How can I efficiently adjust a currency scenario?
  • What are the mill/machine/grade/product capacities based on?
  • What is included in Consumption (consumables)?
  • What is the difference between Consumption and Furnish?
  • Does Fastmarkets have more details on the consumption of chemicals?
  • What are Other Chemicals?
  • What are Furnish Chemicals?
  • Does Fastmarkets have data on water consumption or water treatment?
  • How does Fastmarkets RISI allocate energy consumption per PM?
  • How does Fastmarkets determine the cost of pulpwood?
  • How does Fastmarkets determine the delivery cost?
  • Which CO2 emissions have been take into account?
  • Why is there no cost associated to Emission data in Fastmarkets' Cost benchmarking?
  • Which wood mills/sawmills/lumber plants are covered? Why are there only wood mills based on softwood? Will there be wood mills based on hardwood?
  • Why does Fastmarkets not cost benchmark more wood products/sawmills?
  • How do we get to the man hours in Labor cost/manning?
  • What are exempt or non-exempt employees?
  • How does Fastmarkets update the data and how often?
  • Does Fastmarkets show production per mill?
  • What is the difference between cost benchmarking basic and cost benchmarking?

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