Industry Coverage

Your Market / Industry		Challenges	Our Solutions
	Automotive	Wherever your business is in the supply chain, it faces volatility in interest rates, FX, metals and other commodities. The ability to look across exposures and positions coherently is crucial for effective liquidity and hedge management.
	Asset Management, Banking and other Financial Services	As regulatory and market environments change, you need an integrated view across exposures and positions. Only then can you manage and forecast cash effectively, and weigh in on asset-liability management issues.
	Manufacturing, Import-Export	Your firm faces complex risks—from raw commodities, interest rates and FX volatility, to energy price fluctuations and customer credit exposure. The ability to look across exposures and positions coherently is crucial for effective liquidity and hedge management.
	Metals, Mining	Hedge programs have dwindled amid strong demand and shareholder antipathy, but the need for a risk-aware approach remains. Whether your business is active in ferrous, precious or other metals, it faces unprecedented volatility. The ability to look across exposures and positions coherently is crucial for effective liquidity and hedge management.
	Construction, Real Estate Development and Property Management	Property markets have rarely been so challenging and varied in terms of supply and demand dynamics. You need a coherent risk-aware view across your organization's assets and liabilities. Only then can you manage and forecast cash effectively, and weigh in on asset-liability management issues.
	Shipping	Whether your business is focused on ship building or involved in freight operations, you need an integrated view of risk that encompasses financial and commodity exposures, alongside logistics.
	Travel and Tourism	Your organization faces complex risks. You need an integrated view across exposures and positions—including interest rates, FX and commodities. Only then can you manage and forecast cash effectively, and weigh in on asset-liability management.
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	Soft Commodities	Irrespective of where in the supply chain your business is active, you need a solution that can help you meet all of today's challenges, from managing margin volatility, product tracking and bin allocation, to monitoring firmwide risk exposures.
	Storage and Handling	To effectively manage storage and handling requires a solution powerful enough to navigate every level of complexity—from calculating charges and fees around producer agreements to monitoring inventory and managing product processes.
	Milling	Input commodity prices have a major P&L impact. You need a solution that enables you to safeguard your margin, streamline your interactions with other points in the supply chain, and bring stability and precision to budgets and business strategy
	Feed Manufacturing	Amid heightened volatility, feed manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to know what the "right" decision is when it comes to hedging, managing inventory or switching ingredients—a more holistic approach to risk management can help.
	Malting	Profitability among maltsters, brewers and distillers can be dramatically affected by price volatility, supply disruptions and production capacity constraints. Having a solution that enables a more holistic approach to risk management is crucial.
	Ingredient Suppliers	Increasingly tough food tracing and safety requirements alongside volatile market conditions are making inventory management more complex and more challenging—a holistic approach to risk management can help.
	Fertilizer and By-products	Fertilizer firms face complex business challenges—from managing advance orders to performing dynamic customer credit and inventory analysis. Irrespective of your specialization, holistic risk management is crucial.
	Renewable Fuels	Renewable fuels offer tremendous growth opportunities for importers, refiners and blenders. Meeting the challenges posed by price volatility, advances in biofuel technologies and product tracing requires a holistic approach to risk management.
	Cotton	Cotton markets have experienced unprecedented supply and demand shocks in recent years. Irrespective of your place in the supply chain, a holistic approach to risk management that can encompass price risk, storage and logistics is crucial.
	Sugar	Unprecedented swings in supply and demand have helped drive higher prices and extreme volatility. Irrespective of your place in the supply chain, a holistic approach to risk that can encompass price risk, inventory management and logistics is crucial.
	Chemicals	You're facing daunting complexity. To drive greater operational efficiency and profits you need an inventory management system that allows you to coherently monitor and manage raw materials, products, by-products and even waste.
	Seed	Seed firms face complex business challenges—from managing advance orders to performing dynamic customer credit and inventory analysis. Irrespective of your specialization, holistic risk management is crucial.
	Integrated Poultry	As an integrated poultry business you face complex risks—from feed price volatility, to ensuring quality and safety control, and optimizing your use of storage, processing flexibility and transportation—holistic risk management can help.
	Pet Food	Amid heightened volatility, pet food manufacturers are finding it difficult to know what the "right" decision is when it comes to hedging, managing inventory or switching ingredients—a more holistic approach to risk management can help.
	Consumer Packaged Goods	Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturers have significant exposures to multiple raw materials as well as locational manufacturing and transportation decisions leading to complex decision making to manage the margin spread between the raw materials and the finished good. Total Margin Management across the value chain is essential.
	Food and Beverage	Food and Beverage manufacturers have significant exposures to multiple ingredients, paper, polymers and metals, as well as locational manufacturing and transportation decisions leading to complex decision making to manage the margin spread between the ingredients and the finished good. Total Margin Management across the value chain is essential. Additionally, ingredients traceability is increasingly a mandatory requirement for Food and beverage companies.
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	Electricity	Volatile pricing, complex market structure and varying conventions and information protocols pose tremendous challenges. Whatever your role in power markets, an integrated approach to trading, risk management and logistics is vital.
	Natural Gas	New sources of supply and infrastructure are reshaping your industry. Amid rising complexity, integrated management of the financial and volumetric risks—accounting for price tiers, and physical and contractual constraints—is crucial.
	LNG & NGL's	New supply and massive infrastructure projects are reshaping your industry. Amid rising complexity, integrated management of the financial and volumetric risks—accounting for price tiers, and physical and contractual constraints—is crucial.
	Crude Oil	Wherever your business is active in the crude oil supply chain, it faces unprecedented volatility. Real-time monitoring and integrated management of market, volumetric and credit risks, alongside logistics and storage—is crucial.
	Refined Products	Wherever your business is active in the refined products supply chain, it faces unprecedented volatility. Real-time monitoring and integrated management of market, volumetric, and credit risks, alongside logistics and storage—is crucial.
	Coal	Supply and demand dynamics can quickly change. Whether your business is focused on coking or thermal coal, real-time monitoring and integrated management of market, volumetric and credit risks, alongside logistics and storage—is crucial.
	Metals (Precious / Base)	Whether your business is active in precious or base metals, it faces unprecedented volatility. Real-time monitoring and integrated management of positions and exposures—including market, volumetric and credit risks—is crucial.
	Emission	Regulation and environmental concerns are driving the rapid development of carbon markets across the globe. Emissions trading can help manage this emerging liability, real-time risk monitoring and management, controls and compliance are crucial.
	Weather	Although weather risk can have a dramatic affect on the bottom line, it is often written off as unmanageable. But when it's integrated into your overall approach to risk management, the P&L impact of weather-related shocks can be mitigated.
	Renewable Fuels	Renewable fuels offer tremendous growth opportunities for importers, refiners and blenders. Meeting the challenges posed by price volatility, advances in biofuel technologies and product tracing requires a holistic approach to risk management.

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