Eka.Metals is a comprehensive multi-commodity platform specifically designed to handle requirements of different metal products such as base metals, ferro-alloys, steel, secondarys/scrap, and addresses the needs of different participants of the metals supply chain, including mines, producers, fabricators, trading houses, distributors, scrap dealers & recyclers.

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 physical/financial contracts, swap contracts and concentrate contracts with various pricing methods – average priced, formula/index based, flat, and other more complex pricing, with support for TC/RC, payable metal, penalties & assay rules.
• Takes into account industry specific requirements such as tracking duty status (paid/unpaid) and the form of the metal (T-bars, ingots, cathodes, etc.).
• Comprehensive contract allocation management.
• Complete logistics details including inco-terms and title-transfer rules, optionality on load/disport locations
• Comprehensive management of all ancillary costs, fees and accruals, and impact upon true risk and P&L calculations
• Inco-terms are not just a label on the contract, the system recognizes and prompts when title transfer occurs based upon inco-terms and operational events and impacts true exposure, position and valuation metrics accordingly to represent reality.
• What-if trades and pre-deal analysis
• Integrated contract document creation tool

Tolling

• Manage tolling processes, set recovery ratios.
• Track Processed and Un-processed Stock
• Calculate COG of tolled material taking into account both tolling cost and material cost for accurate Inventory values.

Hedging

• Comprehensive management of OTC and exchange derivatives including futures, forwards, options, swaps and FX hedges.
• Hedge Accounting

Position Management

• Real-time position visibility across physicals and derivatives allows you to identify exposures and take appropriate actions, while currency risk is managed through forwards.
• Capture, measure and report transactions in real time giving a complete transparent view of physical & financial positions and exposures.

Physical M2M

• Calculate accurate mark-to-market valuation of open contracts and inventory by taking into consideration all cost & accruals, duty paid/unpaid and location premiums & discounts (e.g. Metal Bulletin and Midwest Transaction Premiums), treatment and refining charges.
• View exposures, perform M2M and P&L calculations, settlements, and of course allocate these to physical contracts.

Logistics

• Streamline distribution & movement of cargo from mine to finished product.
• Weights and costs updates happen at every contract execution step, and a comprehensive documentation module simplifies operations.
• Comprehensive management of logistics operations and processes including all associated fees, including impact upon title transfer and exposure.
• Multiple units of measurement, including wet/dry weight conversions
• Ability to track quantities and costs across entire logistics chain

Finance

• Eka’s finance module allows creation of invoices, updating payables and receivables, accrual management, monitoring cash flows and posting entries into your accounting package.
• The day & month end routine uses advanced algorithms to calculate and store the positions for the period, including net open physical, inventory, unrealized and realized P&L of physicals & derivatives and LME difference accounts, as well as finalization of averages.

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

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