Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier Days Payable
Potato supplier days payable measures elapsed time from a defined invoice or obligation point to actual payment. Procurement teams can identify approval bottlenecks, disputes, term changes, and supplier groups carrying the greatest financing burden.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato supplier-days-payable data measures elapsed time from a defined invoice or obligation point to actual supplier payment by supplier, plant, contract, and period. The market object is payment behavior linked to the underlying potato purchase and agreed terms.
Use the data to identify approval bottlenecks, disputes, deliberate term changes, and supplier groups bearing the longest financing burden. Compare the average with late-tail behavior and supplier criticality.
Data Module
Potato Supplier Days Payable
Market objectsupplier payment timing
Primary measuresdays payable and late-tail delay
Key dimensionssupplier, plant, contract, invoice
Commercial useworking-capital and supplier-risk monitoring
Driversterms, approvals, disputes
Compare withsupplier resilience and future availability
Analysis
Why this matters
Longer payable timing may improve processor working capital while shifting financing cost to growers and suppliers. The same increase can be harmless under negotiated terms or damaging when caused by process failure.
Commercial interpretation should separate deliberate policy from unplanned delay and identify whether critical suppliers are disproportionately exposed.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
UCUI translates crop and market complexity into a simple uncertainty signal. Higher readings indicate greater uncertainty—not necessarily higher prices.
Understand uncertainty. Anticipate risk. Act earlier.
UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
WeatherHigh
DiseaseHigh
StorageMedium
SupplyMedium
Single-day snapshot based on a scan of 11,500+ web and social signals. Get historical and real-time data by clicking the button below.
The MassGain Daily
Today’s market analysis.
A daily editorial synthesis of physical potato data, crop signals, market reporting, and what participants should watch next.
September 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
Signal 02
MassGain Potato Index
Independent physical-pricing intelligence and market-trend analysis for procurement, forecasting, contracting, and scenario planning.
Core Russet Carton Median
312.45 USD/MT
Latest qualifying physical-market observation
+4.75 (+1.55%)
Price discovery for the physical potato market
MPI is designed to track physical pricing data, price trends, deltas, and divergences across regions and potato types.
Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
Single-day snapshot based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varieties by clicking the button below.
Signal 03
MassGain Spot Reference
An independent spot reference designed for price discovery, contract discussions, procurement comparisons, and risk modeling.
Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
305 USD/MT
Demonstration reference format
+1.6% WoW · Confidence: High
A trusted benchmark for pricing, contracts, and risk
MSR is intended to use real transactions and verifiable physical-market data to support negotiations, price checks, contracting, and risk models.
ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
Based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varities by clicking the button below. Full access also includes historical data -- including depreciated NYMEX/CBOE/EEX spot references -- projections, trends, and AI-driven insights.
The MassGain Product Ladder
From insight to intelligence to action
Four integrated products built for the physical potato market, delivered through public pages, reports, exports, dashboards, and API access.
1
Content
Original research, commentary, aggregated news, and market updates.
- What matters right now?
- What is happening out there?
2
UCUI™
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index: an AI-powered signal of crop risk and market uncertainty.
- Understand uncertainty
- Anticipate risk
- Act earlier
3
MPI™
MassGain Potato Index: independent physical-pricing intelligence and trend analysis.
- Price discovery
- Regional trends
- Procurement planning
4
MSR™
MassGain Spot Reference: an independent benchmark for price discovery and risk modeling.
- Contracts
- Negotiations
- Risk models
Content + UCUI + MPI + MSR + API access
Get historical series, regional detail, constituent data, exports, alerts, and direct data access.
Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for procurement and market-intelligence teams that need to monitor potato supplier days payable. Days payable measures the average time between recognizing an obligation to a potato supplier and making payment. MassGain helps users define the starting point correctly and connect the metric with contracts, receiving, quality approval, invoice workflow, and supplier health.
The suite can compare invoice date, receipt date, acceptance date, due date, payment date, volume, and value by supplier, plant, and contract. Procurement can identify whether longer payment timing is negotiated or caused by process failure. Finance can forecast working capital. Supplier-management teams can see whether delays are concentrated among small growers or disputed quality lots. Market intelligence can assess whether aggressive payment extension may weaken future supply participation.
A high days-payable figure may improve buyer cash flow but increase supplier financing cost and relationship risk. MassGain does not prescribe accounting policy or payment strategy. It provides a transparent operational and market framework that helps teams compare actual behavior with agreed terms, isolate bottlenecks, and understand the tradeoff between working-capital goals and resilient potato supply.
Use Case
A processor’s supplier days payable rises from 34 to 51 days. MassGain shows contract terms did not change; invoices are waiting for receiving and quality approvals at one plant. The company repairs the workflow before grower financing costs affect next season’s contract participation.
FAQs
How is supplier days payable measured?
It measures the elapsed time from the defined obligation or invoice point to actual supplier payment.
Why can the metric rise unexpectedly?
Receiving delays, quality holds, invoice errors, approval bottlenecks, disputes, or deliberate term changes can contribute.
How does MassGain support supplier resilience?
It compares payment timing with terms, supplier scale, financing burden, disputes, contracts, and future availability.
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Data and Methodology
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