Ethanol Performance Improvement

The Ethanol Performance Improvement initiative is a group of independent ethanol plants dedicated to being the best and lowest cost providers in the ethanol industry.

Ethanol Performance Improvement Service

• The best way for independent ethanol plants to stay long-term competitive against larger agribusiness and energy companies is to work together to leverage peer benchmarking and collaboration in the pursuit of business performance improvement
• The initiative is collaborative and based on apples-to-apples information
• The system leverages detailed operational data with financial data and discussion amongst the participants to capitalize on bottom line impacts
• Data integrity and reliability are paramount
• The majority of data comes directly from operations and accounting
• Ascendant has implemented data validation or integrity monitoring
• The system is interactive
• Plants can choose different criteria to make the benchmark comparison more applicable to business opportunities or problems they are trying to solve
• Value-added analysis
• Ascendant is constantly mining the data to challenge the group with new ways to improve performance as a whole and works with individual companies to diagnose high-value performance improvement opportunities
• The system is timely
• This system is ready for comps the day after data is uploaded