The problem
Your mill buys, say, 2,000 tonnes of maize a month. Quotes come from brokers, and you have no independent way to know whether a quote is the market or the market plus a margin you can't see. The cost of that blindness is not small: in July 2026 (real), the gap between the best and worst sourcing choice for maize landed into Ibadan — price plus actual haulage — was ₦146,000 per tonne. Same commodity, same month, same destination.
What you do with Lokoja
- Every Monday, open the corridor view for your commodity into your plant's location — every source market ranked by landed cost (market price + field-calibrated haulage), not just price.
- Before signing any PO, benchmark the broker's quote against the current market median for that origin.
- Watch demand signals for early movement — when trader questions about your commodity spike in a region, supply pressure is usually two steps behind.
The metrics you'll watch
- Landed cost per tonne by source market — the ranking that picks your origin.
- Quote gap — broker quote vs market median, tracked per broker over time.
- Spread captured — ₦/tonne saved vs your historical average buy.
Decisions it powers
Which market to source from this week; which broker quotes to push back on, with numbers; when to buy forward because a corridor is tightening.
The payoff
Capture even ₦10,000–20,000/t of that July spread on 2,000 t/month and you've recovered ₦240M–480M a year (illustrative — we'll run it on your actual volumes). One avoided bad sourcing decision typically pays for the subscription for years.
Numbers marked real come from our engine's July 2026 data. Numbers marked illustrative show the shape of the return — we'll compute yours from your own volumes on a call.