In today’s volatile market, procurement and cost-value engineering teams struggle with the escalating impact of inflation. Geopolitical and market uncertainties make it challenging to identify key cost drivers and forecast future prices. Without clear visibility and the right tools, organizations risk sudden cost spikes, leading to margin erosion and missed savings opportunities.  Beroe’s Inflation Watch empowers you to evaluate inflation exposure across your organization, portfolio, product, and category levels in the short, medium, and long term. Based on a cost value engineering approach, it provides deep insights into cost drivers and forecasts prices for feedstock, commodities, and other inputs. Tailored to your spend profile and contracts, Inflation Watch helps you proactively identify cost-saving levers and risk-diversification strategies, enabling your organization to protect margins, optimize spend, and stay competitive in an unpredictable landscape.  Here’s how Inflation Watch, with its cost & price intelligence and commodity analytics sub-modules, can elevate your strategic planning and cost management:

Cost & Price Intelligence

Access thousands of cost structures for key direct and indirect categories, coupled with insights into cost drivers for effective negotiations and identifying cost-saving opportunities. Combine these drivers to assess inflation's impact across categories, business units, SKUs, and regions, and integrate spend data for a precise, spend-weighted analysis that drives informed decisions. 

Commodity Analytics

Benefit from forecasts for more than 12,000 cost drivers, including commodities and macro indicators for clear and actionable insights into upcoming price changes. 

Why Inflation Watch?

Enhance cost efficiency and profitability

Improve your supply chain by adopting a unified, organization-wide perspective on inflation. Optimize cost structures to improve savings and profit margins. 

Empower procurement strategy

Empower your procurement team to guide stakeholders and negotiate with suppliers strategically, using accurate data to boost savings and profits.  

Facilitate collaboration and leadership

Encourage teamwork among Executive Leadership, Cost Value Engineering and Pricing, Finance, and Suppliers to drive initiatives that boost savings and safeguard profit margins.