Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier Service Levels
Potato supplier service levels measure how reliably a supplier meets agreed volume, timing, specification, quality, and recovery expectations. MassGain adds external regional supply and market context so procurement can distinguish supplier execution from genuine market-wide disruption.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato supplier service levels measure how reliably a supplier meets agreed availability, fill rate, lead time, delivery accuracy, quality, specification, responsiveness, and recovery expectations. The metric should be segmented by product, plant, customer region, and period because market conditions can affect performance unevenly.
MassGain adds external potato supply, regional price, crop, and logistics context. Procurement can distinguish supplier execution from a broader market disruption and evaluate whether premiums are purchasing genuine resilience or merely higher price.
Data Module
Supplier service-level context
Fill raterequested volume supplied
Lead timeorder-to-delivery performance
Qualityacceptance and specification compliance
Deliveryon-time and complete execution
Market contextregional supply and disruption conditions
Decision usescorecard, award, and contingency review
Analysis
Why this matters
Service metrics need market adjustment. A supplier maintaining high fill during genuine regional scarcity may be creating more value than one with similar performance in an abundant market, while repeated misses during normal conditions point more directly to execution.
MassGain helps separate environment from performance. That allows procurement to reward resilience where it is demonstrated and avoid using broad market stress to excuse supplier-specific weakness.
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 10, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
Market indicators are stable, but reporting from Europe and select growing areas shows real, localized crop stress — a reminder that steady headline prices can mask uneven physical risk.
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 potato distributors, wholesalers, foodservice buyers, procurement leaders, and supplier-management teams that need to define and measure the service delivered by potato vendors. Potato supplier service levels can include fill rate, on-time delivery, order accuracy, lead-time consistency, quality acceptance, responsiveness, substitution performance, claims resolution, and the ability to support unexpected demand. The correct target depends on product criticality, shelf life, customer commitments, and available alternatives.
MassGain adds external market context to the internal scorecard. A supplier maintaining high fill rate during regional crop or storage pressure may be creating real value, while poor performance in a well-supplied market may indicate preventable execution problems. The platform helps users compare supplier plants and regions, identify whether missed service is market-wide or supplier-specific, and quantify the premium paid for resilience.
The analysis supports quarterly reviews, tenders, volume allocation, corrective-action plans, and total-cost comparisons. MassGain does not replace order, quality, or logistics systems. It provides the independent potato-market layer needed to interpret service outcomes fairly, distinguish genuine force majeure from weak execution, and avoid choosing a nominally cheaper supplier whose shortages, emergency freight, or rejected loads create a higher total cost.
Use Case
Two frozen-potato suppliers quote similar prices, but one maintains 98% fill rate through a tight storage transition while the other repeatedly short-ships orders. MassGain shows both plants faced comparable regional pressure. Procurement assigns more core volume to the stronger supplier, preserves a smaller challenger allocation, and calculates the resilience premium against avoided emergency freight and customer failures.
FAQs
What can a potato supplier service-level scorecard include?
Fill rate, on-time delivery, accuracy, quality, lead-time reliability, responsiveness, substitutions, and claims performance are common measures.
Why compare service with market conditions?
Regional context helps separate unavoidable supply pressure from supplier-specific execution.
Can a higher-priced supplier offer lower total cost?
Yes. Better service can reduce stockouts, rejected loads, emergency freight, substitutions, and administrative expense.
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Data and Methodology
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