Registration will be hosted at the Welcome Reception. In case of inclement weather, registration and reception will be held in the Atrium.

Kick off the 2025 North America Regional Meeting in style and join us Tuesday evening for some hors d’oeuvres and drinks in Part & Parcel at the Whitehall Hotel. This is the perfect place to get reacquainted with old friends and make some new ones! Please note, in the event of inclement weather, the reception will be relocated to the Atrium.

Breakfast

Welcome to the North America Regional Meeting! We’ll kick things off with a warm welcome and some important housekeeping updates. Following this, we'll dive into an engaging session on Information Security, addressing the growing concerns surrounding the protection of sensitive data, including supply chain logistics, customer information, and proprietary feed formulations in the animal feed industry. This session will examine the latest security challenges and best practices, equipping you with strategies to safeguard your business and data in an increasingly digital world. A diverse panel – featuring a CIO, a general manager, and an information security expert – will offer insights from their unique perspectives, providing practical solutions applicable to all levels of your organization. Whether you work in operations or IT, this session promises critical takeaways to help protect your company’s information assets.

In this session, we’ll explore the fundamentals of pricing setup and workflow within Feed Mill Manager. You’ll gain practical insights into improving your pricing processes, with expert tips and tricks designed to help you troubleshoot any pricing-related inquiries effectively.

Join us for an informative session on the latest features and updates in Pennent Mill Manager and learn valuable tips to streamline processes and maximize utilization. Additionally, get an exclusive preview of future enhancements that will further improve your workflow.

Streamline your banking operations with electronic tools that offer both safety and efficiency. In this session, we’ll cover how to create SmartLists for managing vendor and customer transactions, email remittances directly to vendors, leverage the benefits of SafePay, and automate cash receipt deposits. Additionally, you’ll learn how to simplify bank reconciliations using these electronic features.

In this session, we’ll explore the latest updates and releases for Brill Formulation and Ara Formulation and how they fit into your daily formulation process. We’ll also provide a preview of what’s ahead for 2025. Finally, we’ll wrap up with an open forum to address any formulation challenges you’re facing and discuss potential solutions within Brill and Ara.

Dive deep into the functionality of the Feed Mill Manager Freight Module and discover how it’s applied in the system. This session will cover the differences between Order Header and Order Line-based freight settings, as well as the various freight types available. Learn how to customize Fuel Surcharges for different vendors, calculate freight based on delivery distance relative to customer locations, and manage the visibility of freight methods on customer invoices. We’ll also demonstrate how to link actual loads to freight vendors to create payables, ensuring a streamlined process for matching and finalizing upon arrival. Understand how these settings impact your bottom line and reporting and enhance your overall business efficiency.

New to Pennent Mill Manager or thinking about transitioning from Feed Mill Manager to PMM? This session offers a comprehensive introduction to PMM, highlighting both the similarities and differences compared to FMM. Join us to understand how PMM can meet your needs and streamline your processes.

Learn about how Brill Formulation can help you manage your inventory ingredient specifications using plant structure, base ingredients, overlay ingredients, and ingredient equations. This session will go over when it’s appropriate to use overlay ingredients vs. base ingredients, how plant structure affects the inheritance of overlay ingredients, how to add and remove overlay ingredients, and how you can use ingredient equations to customize nutrient specifications by ingredient.

Join us for an informative session on streamlining your month-end and year-end processes. We’ll explore best practices for reconciling accounts, preparing reports, and handling closing entries with ease. Additionally, we’ll provide tips and tricks for leveraging your software to automate and accelerate your end-of-period activities.

In this session, we'll explore how a business process review can improve operations by ensuring continuity during staff turnover, uncovering untapped features of your current systems, and preparing for future growth. Hear how other businesses approach this, and get insights from experts who have worked in over 600 feed mills globally. Learn how to identify gaps, streamline workflows, and make the most of your existing resources. Whether you're facing change or planning for expansion, this review can help you stay efficient and competitive.

Leverage the latest Feed Mill Manager release for greater visibility into the state of your business. This session will explore how recent updates can impact your business and offer practical tips to improve your daily efficiencies.

This session will explore some of the lesser-known features of Brill Formulation and demonstrate how to seamlessly leverage them in your daily workflow. Topics will include Ingredient and Stored Formula Linking, Ingredient Combinations, Ingredient Equations and Ratios, Creating Lists, Stock Status Look-Ups, and SmartLists.

Effective inventory management is crucial for a feed company’s success. Shortages can result in expensive substitutions and dissatisfied customers, while excess inventory ties up valuable cash and bin or warehouse space. Pennent Mill Manager can help you efficiently monitor and manage your inventory. In this session, we’ll focus on essential tools such as inventory inquiries, count sheets, and the MRP workbench to ensure you can improve your inventory practices and maintain a smooth operation.

In this session, we’ll examine the setup and application of Veterinarian Feeding Directives (VFDs) within Feed Mill Manager. We’ll also explore how to integrate the FMM Drug Reconciliation module with VFD-type items.

In this session, we’ll review Materials Resource Planning (MRP), Purchase Contracts, and Item Resource Planning. We’ll explore how combining these tools can help your purchasing department minimize overhead and drive accuracy while managing high-volume purchase contracts, whether by weight or load. Item Resource Planning offers customization options to streamline purchase orders and contracts, establishing order points and maximum levels. These tools are designed to support purchasing personnel in ensuring timely delivery of the correct products while reducing administrative burdens.

Sales and manufacturing processes are the heart of a feed mill. Join us for this session as we explore fundamental workflows for sales orders, manufacturing orders, and shipments. We’ll also delve into advanced features, including Order Import, Prescriptions, Feed Budgets, and Order Sheets.

In this session, we'll show you how to streamline your daily tasks and boost efficiency. Discover faster, smarter ways to work and avoid unnecessary steps. We’ll cover techniques such as setting percent tolerances to automatically close POs, utilizing navigation panes, leveraging all-in-one views, and using copy/paste in AP transactions. Learn how to define report ranges, add columns to search fields for quicker record retrieval, eliminate unnecessary recurring reports, automate cash receipt deposits, and use keyboard shortcuts and user preferences to your advantage.

Why aren’t the ingredients in my premix pellet showing up in my formula tag? How do I change the order that guaranteed nutrients appear on my tags? Why isn’t my compendium updating automatically? Join this session to uncover answers to these commonly asked questions and more.

In this session, we’ll explore how to use tag template features to enhance the visual appeal of your tags. While our primary focus will be on tags printed using MS Word, many of these techniques can also be applied to other formats.

In this session, we’ll explore how inventory is managed within Feed Mill Manager and Great Plains (GP), focusing on the timing and methods of inventory adjustments. Discover best practices for Month-End inventory cutoffs and Stock Counts, and learn valuable tips to streamline Month-End processes.

Are you overwhelmed or intimidated by the complexity of feed pricing? Join this session to gain a clear understanding of managing costs and setting prices using Pennent Mill Manager. We’ll break down the fundamentals, guiding you through the essential concepts and tools needed to effectively handle feed pricing.

Join us for a session where we’ll explore the four types of returns in your purchasing module. By the end, you’ll be equipped to answer questions such as, “Why am I seeing incorrect information on my Received Not Invoiced Report?" We'll discuss Landed Costs and their impact on unit costs and other system layers. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how to create Landed Cost Equations to address complex calculations and ensure accurate cost management.

Formulators deal with many changing data points on a daily basis. This session will focus on enhancing aspects of process design to bring greater efficiency to the formulation desk and ensure stakeholder satisfaction. We’ll dive into strategies for managing dynamic data, streamlining workflows, and implementing best practices that improve both speed and accuracy in the formulation process.

Now that you understand the basics of pricing, let's take it to the next level. In this session, we’ll show you how to configure Pennent Mill Manager to automatically calculate freight and fuel surcharges based on distance and quantity. You’ll learn how to utilize Sales Contracts to manage customer pricing agreements with specific date and quantity restrictions. Additionally, we’ll cover how to accurately track Customer-Owned inventory and adjust formula prices accordingly.

Join us for a session focused on improving your feed order entry and returns management. We'll cover the entry process, discuss returns, and share tips to maximize Feed Mill Manager's features for greater productivity and efficiency.

This session will provide Management Reporter administrators and users with the skills they need to effectively build and utilize financial statements in Microsoft’s financial reporting and analysis solution. We’ll cover essential topics including Visual Work Space Size and Viewing Options, Navigation Essentials, Formatting, Drill to Dynamics, Use Show Summary Lines Only, Financial Dimensions, Budgeting, Check Accuracy, Report Scheduler and Report Groups.

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Discover how to effectively gather data to respond to regulatory requests by utilizing archived formulation data, SQL databridge, and other tools. This session will guide you through the process of investigating and addressing inquiries, ensuring that you can provide timely and comprehensive responses.

SmartLists are a simple and powerful way to turn all the data in your system into information you can use to make better business decisions. This session will cover the basics of using SmartLists and creating Export Solutions.

Join us for a comprehensive class on setting up and managing customer sales contracts and grain banks. You’ll learn how to effectively use all the features of sales contract entry, and gain insights into tracking contract status and grain bank details through reports and SmartLists.

Join us for an in-depth session on purchasing and receiving processes in Pennent Mill Manager. We’ll cover key topics including Purchase Orders, Planned Receipts, Receiving Transactions, Landed Costs, Inquiries, and Reports. Additionally, we’ll explore how these elements integrate with other systems to enhance your overall efficiency.

Join this attendee-led session to get all your questions answered! Whether you’re seeking guidance on a specific platform, addressing a stakeholder request, or looking for general insights, this interactive forum is designed to address all your formulation inquiries.

Are you experiencing slow performance in your environment? Join us to explore database cleanup tools and best practices for maintaining a streamlined database. We’ll discuss strategies to enhance speed and efficiency in GP, helping you achieve optimal performance.

Are you an IT professional or a Pennent Mill Manager power user? If so, this session is for you! We’ll dive into PMM administration tasks, including managing user access and security. Additionally, we’ll provide valuable tips for troubleshooting integration issues and resolving other common errors.

Join this session to learn how to properly set up production interfaces within Feed Mill Manager and third-party automated batches. Additionally, we’ll review: Batching system interfaces setup and options for manufacturing, loadout, purchasing and receiving How to simplify production order posting with the Process Scheduler feature How to troubleshoot common errors to ensure smooth operations

This customer-led discussion will focus on users sharing their challenges and success stories with Format Solutions products. We’ll explore common challenges, discuss practical solutions, and celebrate effective strategies and successes.

In the final session, we'll discuss key insights and trends that emerged during the meeting, invite attendees to share their feature requests, and explore plans for future gatherings.