EKA’s Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) solution for agriculture and soft commodities provides a single, comprehensive platform for managing operations across coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton, orange juice, tea, Grains [Wheat, Soya, Maize, Rice, Barley, etc], Feeds, Edible oils, Oilseeds, Livestock, and other Agri-based businesses. The solution has been designed to meet the needs of different participants of the supply chain, including trading houses, elevators, distributors, processors, exporters, farmers and importers.

It covers the entire lifecycle of both physical and financial contracts, combining front, middle and back office functionality into a powerful, feature-rich system. In addition, by creating interfaces with your other packages (accounting, ERP, master data, live feeds, etc.), you get the ideal real-time solution to meet your business requirements.

Why Eka
Complete “Physical” CTRM Solution

• Built specifically for physical commodity trading by industry experts
• Unique data model designed to handle the physical business
• Comprehensive management of physical trading and logistics processes
• Ability to track quantities and costs throughout the supply chain

Integrated BI tool for custom reporting

• Sophisticated Business Intelligence capability
• Drag and drop tools that enable the end user to create custom views of complex information quickly and easily
• Powerful and easy to use custom reporting environment for individual and group users

Ease of Use

• Superior usability and performance
• Customizable to specific user levels with strong filtering capabilities
• User-defined dashboards
• Strong functionalities of Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics

Cutting Edge Technology

• 100% Java, J2EE, SOA, NTier and Component based architecture, Struts, XML
• Web-based thin client, enabling users to plug in external third-party content and widgets into their user dashboard
• Flexible and easy to adapt, ensures lower costs
• Leverage existing investments with smooth third party integration

To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, click here or write to us at demo@ekaplus.com.

To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, click here or write to us at demo@ekaplus.com.

Physical Contract Management

• Manage long-term agreements, spot purchases and sales with various pricing methods – fixed, differential or quality based premiums and discounts.
• Incorporates industry specific requirements such as handling of multiple grades across multiple origins, product ratios for cocoa products, polarization premiums/discounts in sugar, etc.
• Comprehensive contract allocation management.
• Forward & Backward integration with supply chain partners: Grower portal for Grains origination business

Futures and Options

• Helps you identify and manage price risk.
• Derivative trades of types EFP, speculative, arbitrage & switches, and track strategies.
• Hedges can be allocated to physicals, and partial or final price fixation confirmations generated automatically.
• You can close-out trades, perform reconciliations with broker statements, and track commissions.
• Quick view of Net open positions, Variation Margins, Expenses on Futures & Options

Position Management

• One view of Real-time position visibility across physicals, derivatives and combined physicals derivatives allows you to identify exposures and take appropriate actions, while currency risk is managed through forwards that are available on the mobile phones and iPads as well.
• Capture, measure and report transactions in real time giving a complete transparent view of physical & financial positions and exposures.
• Track Position changes on a daily, weekly & Monthly basis by commodity & Profit center

Physical M2M

• Gain accurate mark-to-market valuation of open contracts and inventory, by taking into consideration all estimates & accruals, contract terms as well as location /quality premiums & discounts.
• View exposures, perform M2M and P&L calculations, settlements, and of course allocate these to physical contracts. These allocations can be one-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-one.
• Auto upload of Market quotes for Physicals and Derivatives for quick M2M P&L.

Logistics

• Completely streamlined multimodal movement of cargo from origin to destination by Road, Rail & Ocean.
• Stock updates with inward and outward weights closely monitored to trigger weight claims. Weights and costs updates are made at each contract execution step, and a comprehensive documentation module simplifies operations.
• Pool & Outturn Management for Grains.
• Intelligent workflow process that eliminates data entry errors and simplifies back office operations.
• Captures cost accruals at every logistical activity with comprehensive audit trail.

Finance

• Eka’s finance module allows creation of different types of commercial invoices, updating payables and receivables, tracking costs, monitoring cash flows and posting entries into your accounting package.
• One of the most powerful features of the application is the day & month-end procedures, which uses advanced algorithms to calculate and store the positions and P&L (unrealized and realized) on both physicals & derivatives.
• Excellent capability to integrate with accounting packages

Business Intelligence & Reporting

• Eka’s business intelligence tools help you understand how and why position and P&L are what they are, and how they have changed between any two periods, trade-by trade, and factor by factor. It enables the user to slice and dice the information.
• Generate multi-dimensional, cross departmental reports that gives users a 360-degree view of the organization’s positions, exposures and P&L
• Well structured, comprehensive suite of reports covering physical trading, logistics, stock, derivatives, currency, finance, end of day, end of month, position, mark to market, P&L. Exportable to spreadsheet, Word, HTML etc
• Generate multi-dimensional, cross departmental reports that gives users a 360-degree view of the organization’s positions, exposures and P&L

To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, click here or write to us at demo@ekaplus.com.

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To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, click here or write to us at demo@ekaplus.com.