Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier on Time Delivery
Potato supplier on time delivery records whether the agreed product, quantity, documentation, and timing arrive within the required window. Use reason codes and regional context to separate crop or freight disruption from supplier execution and quantify service cost.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato-supplier on-time-delivery data records whether the agreed product, quantity, documentation, and timing arrive within the required window. The market object is supplier service performance by origin, plant, lane, product, crop period, and reason for delay.
Use the data to distinguish harvest, storage, freight, documentation, capacity, and execution causes and to quantify downtime, premium freight, safety stock, emergency buying, and customer-service exposure. Compare suppliers after accounting for shared regional disruptions.
Data Module
Potato Supplier On-Time Delivery
Market objectsupplier delivery performance
Primary measureon-time compliant delivery
Key dimensionssupplier, lane, plant, crop
Commercial useservice-risk benchmarking
Delay causescrop, freight, capacity, execution
Compare withinventory, emergency cost, regional disruption
Analysis
Why this matters
Late delivery is not equally costly in every situation. A missed load during ample inventory may have little consequence, while the same delay against a tight factory schedule can cause downtime or premium replacement freight.
Commercial interpretation should combine service frequency with impact and cause. Regional weather exceptions deserve different treatment from repeated supplier or lane failures after the market normalizes.
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 leaders, processors, distributors, restaurant systems, and supply-chain planners that need to measure potato supplier on-time delivery. Delivery performance shows whether the right product, quantity, and documentation arrive within the agreed window, but the business impact depends on plant schedules, warehouse coverage, product perishability, and the availability of substitutes. MassGain connects service performance with the physical potato market behind each shipment.
A supplier can miss delivery because of harvest delay, storage problems, plant capacity, freight constraints, documentation, allocation, or weak execution. MassGain compares performance by supplier, origin, plant, lane, product, crop period, and reason code and places it beside regional crop conditions, market availability, freight, contracts, and inventory coverage. Procurement can distinguish unavoidable market disruption from recurring preventable failure. Operations can identify which delays threaten production or customer service. Finance can quantify downtime, premium freight, safety stock, spoilage, and emergency purchases. The platform also helps teams measure whether a higher-priced supplier earns its premium through dependable delivery during constrained periods. MassGain does not replace transportation or order-management systems. It provides the market-aware scorecard needed to evaluate service resilience, prioritize corrective actions, and allocate volume according to the real cost of late or incomplete supply.
Use Case
A dehydrated-potato plant experiences repeated late deliveries from one supplier. MassGain shows regional harvest conditions explain two delays, but most misses occur on a single freight lane after the market normalizes. Procurement separates the market-driven exceptions from execution failures, adds lane-specific service thresholds, and shifts flexible volume to a more reliable source.
FAQs
What counts as on-time potato delivery?
It should match the contract’s agreed delivery window, quantity, product, destination, and required documentation.
Why classify the reason for a late load?
Crop, storage, plant, freight, documentation, and supplier execution require different responses.
How does MassGain quantify delivery value?
It connects service with inventory, downtime, premium freight, emergency buying, contracts, and regional availability.
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Data and Methodology
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