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  Production

  • Keeps track of inventory balances, purchases, sales and production plan to provide real time and accurate visibility into volumetric forward balances

  • Process BOM/Yields/Recipe can be defined for processing locations

  • Process recipe can be used to simulate raw material/s to finished good/s and vice versa

  • Production plan can be captured for every location 

  • Production actuals can be captured against the production plan

  • Processing costs, both budgeted and actuals, can be captured 

  • Integrates with leading ERP systems for Inventory and Production

   Physical Trade

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  • Multi commodities/grades in one trade

  • Multiple pricing components like Futures, Basis, Freight, Spread and others can be captured in one trade

  • Multiple delivery schedules in one trade 

  • Supports Flat, Futures, Index, Staggered/Trigger/Frame and Formula based pricing

  • Supports unfixed FX rate between trade price and settlement currencies 

  • Demurrage terms, budgeted costs, optionality, quality details can be captured

  • Supports tiered based quality adjustment

  • Tasks can be defined for each schedule, assigned to users and kept tracked of

  Pricing​

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  • Centralized place to view all unpriced quantities

  • Price fixation can be based on formula, index, manual or futures based 

  • Both commodity prices and FX rates can be fixed

  • Both Provisional and Final prices and rates can be fixed

  • Visibility into estimated prices

  • Underfill and overfill for Futures based pricing

  Alloc​ation and Hedging

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  • Physical positions can be matched with futures or options for hedging

  • Long and short physical positions can be matched to closeout trader's P&L

  String

  • Washouts, Circles and Bypass settlement can be accomplished. External trades can also be captured in the system

  • Accurate cashflow estimates are generated on trade confirmation and downstream events

  • Cashflows can be converted into Prepayments, Provisional or Final invoices

  • Payment/Collection can be captured

  • Invoices can be interfaced to leading accounting systems

  Inventory​

  • Keeps track of inventory balances, purchases, sales and production plan to provide real time and accurate visibility into volumetric forward balances

  • Accurate inventory valuation for priced and unpriced quantities

  • Manage certificate, collateralized and consignment inventory

  • Integrates with leading ERP systems for Inventory and Production

  Options​

  • Exchange traded and OTC options can be captured

  • Vanilla as well as exotic options like digital and barrier options supported

  • Options can be closed out and/or rolled over

  • Options can be matched with unpriced commodity physical trades for auto price fixation

  • Broker statements/recaps can be uploaded

  • Straight through processing with exchanges supported

  Swaps​

  • Exchange and OTC Swaps can be captured and managed

  • Swaps can be closed out and/or rolled over

  • Futures and Options can be matched with unpriced commodity physical trades for auto price fixation

  • Broker statements/recaps can be uploaded

  • Straight through processing with exchanges supported

  FX Hedging​

  • FX exposures from commodity physical and derivatives trades can be viewed centrally

  • FX exposures can be covered using FX futures and forwards 

  Voyage Charter/Time Charter​

  • Both voyage and time charters can be captured 

  • Various price components including hire rate, freight rate, demurrage, despatch, overrage, dead freight and others can be captured

  • Flat and index/formula based pricing is supported

  • Statement or facts can be captured to compute and settle demurrage and despatch charges

  • Bunker on Delivery and Redelivery can be captured and settled

  • Bunker consumption can be managed

  Fulfilment​

  • Supports multi-stage fulfillment. For example from truck to barge to vessel

  • Buys and Sells can be selected in a fulfilment plan or vessel plan

  • Buys and Sells can be matched 

  • Stock allocation can be done

  • Buy and Sell loads can be matched

  • Ad-hoc loads without buy/sell can be created and later linked to the buy and sell trade

  • Actualization of Quantity, Quality and Operational events (NOR,ETA, ETB, ETC, ETD)

  • Time and Voyage Charters can be captured and managed

  Futures​

  • Futures traded in CME, ICE, SAFEX, MDEX, LME, and other exchanges can be captured and managed

  • Futures can be uploaded from broker statement using pre-defined templats 

  • Futures  can be closed out and/or rolled over

  • Futures  can be matched with unpriced commodity physical trades for auto price fixation

  • Straight through processing with exchanges supported

  P&L

  • Daily and intraday snapshots can be saved 

  • Multiple market curves can be linked to a position through valuation modes

  • Daily and intraday P&L attribution is calculated and saved  

  FX Forward​

  • FX Forward, deliverable and non-deliverable,  can be captured and managed

  • FX forwards can be  closed out and/or rolled over

  • FX forwards can be matched with payment and collections

  Market Data

  • Commodity, FX and IR market rates can be maintained 

  • Market data can be uploaded through pre-defined excel templates, interfaced to market data providers or manually captured

  • Derived price indices is supported 

  • Period and tenor based indices can be set-up

  Limits

  • CStar offers a flexible and powerful limits module

  • Limits can be defined for volume, value, cashflow, P&L, tenors, credit, outstanding or price.

  • Sub limits can be defined for priced, unpriced, gross or net values.

  • Multiple warning or block tolerance levels can be setup

  • Alerts can also be configured for tolerance breaches.

  Settlement

  • Washouts, Circles and Bypass settlement can be accomplished. External trades can also be captured in the system

  • Accurate cashflow estimates are generated on trade confirmation and downstream events

  • Cashflows can be converted into Prepayments, Provisional or Final invoices

  • Payment/Collection can be captured

  • Invoices can be interfaced to leading accounting systems

   Why CommoditySTAR Solutions

  • Comprehensive trade lifecycle management and risk management solution

  • Automation of operational document generation

  • Pro-active risk management through limits and daily P&L reporting

  • Advanced analytics using machine learning technologies

  • Solution encapsulates industry best business practices

  • Truly web based solution which can be accessed from anywhere on the go and through any devices

  • Designed for quick implementations and self maintenance through features like user friendly document designer, drag and drop analytics, user defined fields, user defined profiles and user defined filters, for personalized user experience.  

  • Scalable solution using grid computing technologies

  FX Futures​

  • FX Futures can be captured and managed

  • FX Futures can be closed out and/or rolled over

  • Broker statements/recaps can be uploaded

  • Straight through processing with exchanges supported

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