Bangalore, August 2007

Noble Metals, one of the World’s largest non-producer providers of Aluminum select EKA to manage its global business.
The Noble Group an established supply chain manager of alumina and aluminum to the industry and a supplier of semi-finished and finished aluminum products to customers has selected EKA’s Commodity Trade & Risk Management (CTRM) solution for Metals to manage their global trading Operations stretching from India to Australia and the United States to Europe.



This division is part of one of Noble’s most important business lines, and is a logistically complex business, involving both raw and semi-finished products, often encompassing multi-step processing before final delivery to the customer.



The EKA solution helps Noble effectively manage the different aspects of their business by integrating their trading both “physical and futures” operations on a single platform and helping traders and risk managers manage their business more effectively by identifying costs and exposures effectively in real time. EKA achieves this by integrating with various systems including live feeds / financial and accounting systems and Master Database providing seamless flow of information throughout the organization.



Noble’s choice of EKA was driven by the solutions capability to manage multiple products, grades and qualities, helping traders to manage all contracts from mine to semi-finished to finished including trades arising out of recycling of secondary’s on a single platform. The robust tolling functionality helps Noble track the performance of their vendors against predefined input – output parameters for quality, form / shape and volume. While EKA’s ability to plan, track and manage stock’s across multiple locations helps them meet customer commitments consistently.



Noble’s selection of EKA was preceded by a comprehensive multi stage evaluation process involving over 4 vendors over a span of 6 months including detailed workshops with key user groups.