LP-based production planning, modernized.
The optimizer the big beef processors run on internally, rebuilt as a cloud-native stack. Decides today's fab mix across 25+ subprimals to maximize margin against your live order book — in milliseconds.
Built for the daily decision a beef facility actually makes.
LP fab planning
Decide what to cut, freeze, downgrade, or refuse to sell across 25+ subprimals per carcass type, per shift.
Real-time ATP
Sales-order check availability returns the LP's marginal allocation in <100ms. Feasible / partial / infeasible / non-production.
Margin optimizer
Reads market prices as the cost vector, honors freshness windows, and maximizes against your live orderbook — not yesterday's.
Multi-grade carcass mix
Choice, Select, Prime, and Wagyu carcass types each get their own 25-row yield matrix and 20-row adjustment table.
Single source of truth
Planning constants live on the master schema. Change it once — CashSheet, ATP, and the floor view all pick it up.
Cloud-native, audit-ready
Per-facility silo, idempotent deploys, full migration history — the kind of ops story a public-company audit asks for.
From carcass to confirmed sales order in three steps.
The yield matrix
Every carcass grade (Choice, Select, Prime, Wagyu) gets a 25-row yield matrix and a 20-row adjustment table for bone and fat loss. Roughly 72% of live carcass weight becomes sellable cuts; the rest is shrink.
Stored in master.carcass_matrix_yield + master.carcass_matrix_adjustment.
The LP solve
HiGHS solves a linear program with one column per (product, date, shift) and one row per carcass-balance, order-fulfillment, capacity, and freshness constraint. Objective: maximize revenue minus downgrade penalties.
Typical BLYTHE LP: 6,902 columns, 588 rows, < 100 ms to OPTIMAL.
ATP at sales-order entry
Every line item your sales team enters fires a Z-variable into the next LP solve. The daemon answers feasible, partial, or infeasible in real time, with the marginal price the LP would charge to honor that line.
Latency: typically < 200 ms end-to-end from button click to response.
A 1,000-head day, by the dollar.
Live numbers from the BLYTHE pilot. 31 priced SKUs across 5 carcass grades, ~5,000 head/week throughput.
Carcass-dollars by piece (top 8)
Yield % × market price. Ribeye carries the most dollars per 100 lb of live carcass; ground beef earns second on yield volume.
| Piece | Yield % | $/lb | $/cwt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 112A Ribeye | 3.69 | $11.17 | $41.22 |
| GB7327 Ground Beef | 10.38 | $3.35 | $34.77 |
| 180 Strip Loin | 3.07 | $10.75 | $33.00 |
| 189A Tenderloin | 1.61 | $18.50 | $29.79 |
| TRIM50 Trim | 12.95 | $2.15 | $27.84 |
| 116A Chuck Roll | 5.75 | $3.99 | $22.94 |
| 184 Top Sirloin Butt | 3.28 | $6.85 | $22.47 |
| 168 Top Inside Round | 5.61 | $3.31 | $18.57 |
What the LP earns you
At the theoretical maximum — selling 100% of every yield at market price — 1,000 Choice steers at 800 lb live each generates roughly $2.8 millionper day in revenue. The LP's job is to land you as close to it as your real orderbook allows.
Theoretical ceiling
$2.8M
1,000 head × full market
Per-cwt ceiling
$320
Yield × price, BEEFCHO1
SKUs in play
31
Priced & fac-authed
LP solve time
< 100ms
6,902 columns, OPTIMAL
See it on your numbers.
We can stand up a sandbox silo with your product list, carcass mix, and a sample orderbook in under a day. Twenty minutes on a call and we'll walk you through what the LP picks.