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Smart Commodity ManagementNext-Generation. Analytics-Driven.

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BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Unprecedented Volatility in Commodity PricesVolatility in commodity markets has become the order of the day. Value chain participants who manage commodities have seen prices fluctuate dramatically. Sudden swings in commodity prices impair forecasts, increase costs, and negatively impact bottom lines.

Global, Complex Supply ChainsCommodities companies have become more integrated and have moved further into the supply chain. In addition, due to the growing consumption of all types of commodities, supply chains have become increasingly complex and prone to disruption. Efficiency and effectiveness throughout the commodity supply chain are keys to managing costs, customer satisfaction, and profitability.

OVERVIEW

The InSight CM platform is a next-generation ETRM and CTRM software solution for managing

commodity transactions end-to-end throughout the value chain. The platform is suitable for a wide

range of commodities in the agricultural, manufacturing, metals, and energy industries. Commodity

market participants use Eka’s solution to manage commodity trading, procurement, risk management,

regulatory compliance, supply chain, operations, logistics, bulk handling, scheduling, processing,

accounting, settlement, and decision support.

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InSight CM supports commodity trading, procurement, risk management, regulatory compliance, supply chain, operations, logistics, bulk handling, scheduling, processing, accounting, settlement, and decision support in one integrated platform for all commodities including agriculture, fertilizers, chemicals, biofuels, oil, natural gas, power, coal, metals, and concentrates.

Evolving Regulatory EnvironmentAdhering to government and regulatory requirements such as Dodd-Frank is an increasingly important part of compliance and corporate governance initiatives. Participants in the commodities markets face a complicated set of testing, documenting, and reporting mandates.

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INSIGHT CMThe InSight CM platform is a next-generation ETRM and CTRM solution that includes all the required tools to cover the entire transaction lifecycle, including commodity trading, procurement, risk management, regulatory compliance, supply chain, operations, logistics, bulk handling, scheduling, processing, accounting, settlement, and decision support. The platform supports multiple commodities and includes the capability to capture “what-if” deals and analyze complex scenarios. With Eka’s flexible solution, organizations can manage performance in the way they want — by business unit, legal entity, book, geography, or across the enterprise.

Eka’s end-to-end InSight CM platform provides straight through processing of commodities for all front, middle, and back-office personnel, including:

• Trading and procurement

• Risk management

• Scheduling/logistics

• Operations control

• Regulatory compliance

• Accounting and settlement

The InSight CM software platform provides complete transactional support across multiple commodities plus advanced analytics for real-time, data-driven, fact-based decision making.

InSight CM is part of Eka’s Smart Commodity Management suite. Combined with Commodity Analytics Cloud, Eka’s advanced analytics solution for gaining previously unavailable business insights, commodities companies gain a complete solution to manage in today’s complex and volatile markets.

Commodity Analytics Cloud is an advanced analytics solution for commodities companies in the agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and metals industries. With Commodity Analytics Cloud, traders, risk managers, analysts, supply chain/logistics managers, IT specialists, back office personnel, and executives gain previously unavailable insights into key business areas and can take action before competitors.

Harnessing data from internal systems, such as ETRM, CTRM, ERP, CRM, and spreadsheets, and external sources, such as market curves and weather data, Commodity Analytics Cloud brings all the data together in one place to answer the most important questions. Information is displayed in an easy-to-understand way that facilitates deeper inquiry. Business users can focus on data analysis, not data collection.

The Commodity Analytics Cloud platform provides apps specifically designed for the commodities markets that address high value business issues. With these apps, users at commodities companies gain the analytics needed to make better business decisions.

Providing an end-to-end analysis of the entire enterprise, these apps span multiple categories including positions, P&L, trading, risk, credit, finance, supply chain, reconciliation, counterparties, and more. With Commodity Analytics Cloud, users can find opportunities otherwise unavailable and reveal invisible risks faster and more effectively.

Learn more about Commodity Analytics Cloud at www.commodity-analytics-cloud.com.

COMMODITY ANALYTICS CLOUD

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Trading and ProcurementCommodity companies use InSight CM to manage the physical trading of commodities with support for various contract types, delivery options, and pricing agreements. The platform provides comprehensive management of exchange, over-the-counter (OTC), foreign exchange (FX), and interest rate (IR) derivatives.

Deal entry is quick and painless with Eka’s platform. The solution supports advanced features including formula pricing, structured deals, and quality tracking.

With Eka’s platform, companies can manage global trading operations including position, mark-to-market P&L, derivatives, and risk across multiple commodities. The platform captures, measures, and reports transactions in real-time, providing a complete transparent view of physical and financial positions and exposures across the business.

In addition, the software platform supports procurement planning, coverage, variance analysis, analytics, and optimization. Suitable for both local and global sourcing and distribution, the software is used by manufacturers to manage volatility in commodity, energy, and packaging costs.

Risk ManagementThe InSight CM software platform is an advanced solution for managing risk across multiple commodities. The comprehensive risk management solution controls and mitigates price, operational, regulatory, and counterparty credit risk. Eka provides real-time position and coverage visibility across physicals and derivatives, identifying exposures and enabling timely decisions and actions. Companies can capture, analyze, manage, and report transactions in real-time, giving a complete transparent view of physical and financial mark-to-market

P&L. The solution provides sophisticated analytic and visualization tools to support scenario optimization, “what-if” deals, stress testing, VaR, and other advanced risk management techniques.

Companies use Eka’s software to measure global risk. Various simulation scenarios can be run to determine the effect on a company’s bottom line. A corporation’s risk policy is documented and controlled from a central corporate governance function with an approval structure defined by the company. The Eka platform supports a company’s risk policy and highlights breach limits and exceptions. The solution has real-time monitoring and users can set up alerts and notifications to highlight potential breaches or contract milestones. Credit risk and position limits can be measured, and users can change market parameters to shock portfolios and view resulting effects. Risk is measured at various organizational levels, such as legal, group, book, etc.

Scheduling/LogisticsInSight CM includes the tools to manage complex scheduling and logistics to drive greater effectiveness and efficiency. The platform supports multiple modes of transportation when tracking and optimizing movements including transmission, pipeline, truck, rail, barge, and vessel. Eka’s customers can generate purchase and sales contracts, with the flexibility to manage complex pricing rules.

With Eka’s platform, inventory is tracked at each location and all values are maintained in real-time. Users can roll-up and drill-down data across books, products, geographies, and more. The software provides true P&L including delivery and storage costs, weight and quality adjustments, plus other secondary costs. Eka’s platform manages storage contracts, multiple units of measure, and secondary costs.

InSight CM includes the tools to manage complex scheduling and logistics to drive greater effectiveness and efficiency.

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The InSight CM platform supports complex scheduling from origin trade straight through to final destination for all commodities including agriculture, fertilizers, chemicals, biofuels, oil, natural gas, power, coal, metals, and concentrates. InSight CM fully supports advanced scheduling and logistics including string, circle, and washout settlement processes. The platform provides schedulers with real-time data and analytics to maximize profits.

Operations ControlThe InSight CM platform includes bulk stock management, process management, task execution, and business intelligence for the bulk handling industry including mining operations, grain facilities, and port terminals for all types of commodities. With Eka’s software platform, physical assets (machinery, storage locations, ports, etc.) operate at maximum efficiency in the storage or movement of physical bulk commodities — providing the most throughput for the least amount of downtime and cost. The platform maximizes the efficiency of bulk handling sites including the processing of incoming deliveries and stock management.

Regulatory ComplianceInSight CM provides and maintains a complete audit trail of all changes to the system – who, what, and when. To meet Dodd-Frank and other standards, reports are submitted to trade repositories automatically. To achieve hedge accounting compliance requirements across commodities and foreign exchange derivative instruments, Eka’s solution covers hedge allocations, effectiveness testing, hedge management, compliance documentation, and regulatory reporting. In addition, the software provides security permissions to tightly control access to data.

To create the ideal real-time solution for the business, the InSight CM platform can be fully integrated with other third party applications, including ERPs, CRMs, accounting applications, procurement systems, and treasury systems. Integrating systems eliminates duplication of effort in manual data entry to maximize productivity and ensure unified, accurate data across all applications.

Accounting and SettlementThe InSight CM platform tracks quantities, qualities, and costs throughout the supply chain. Using the software, companies can generate invoices (both provisional and final), update payables and receivables, manage accruals, monitor cash flows, and post entries for P&L reconciliation.

The back-office is fully integrated and updated in real-time as trades and schedules are added and changed.

NEXT-GENERATION ARCHITECTUREBuilt on a browser-based, n-tiered, highly flexible and scalable technology architecture, and available on-premise or in-cloud, Eka’s platform has a light footprint that aggregates and analyzes extremely large data sets to provide real-time analytics. The extremely fast processing power provides real-time valuation and position reporting for large transaction volumes. The flexible architecture makes the platform highly scalable, and it integrates with other systems via APIs, including ERPs, CRMs, accounting applications, procurement systems, and treasury systems. The modular platform is built on a modern technology architecture that provides real-time information with configurable workflows and controls that are all fully auditable.

InSight CM is a next-generation ETRM and CTRM solution that enables commodity organizations to better manage in today’s complex and volatile business environment.

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ABOUT EKA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONSEka is the global leader in providing Smart Commodity Management software solutions. Eka’s analytics-driven, end-to-end Commodity Management platform enables companies to efficiently and profitably meet the challenges of complex and volatile markets.

The company’s best-of-breed solutions manage commodity trading, procurement, risk management, regulatory compliance, supply chain, operations, logistics, bulk handling, scheduling, processing, accounting, settlement, and decision support. Eka partners with customers to accelerate growth, increase profitability, improve operational control, and manage risks and exposures.

Eka is a team of 315 staff with offices in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and EMEA, serving a rapidly growing global client base across multiple commodity segments.

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SUMMARYUnlike first- and second-generation ETRM and CTRM platforms that were designed to be only transaction systems, Eka’s Smart Commodity Management suite provides not only the best end-to-end transaction system but also fact-based, predictive, and prescriptive decision support to enable commodity organizations to better manage in today’s complex and volatile business environment. Eka’s Smart Commodity Management includes Commodity Analytics Cloud, an advanced analytics solution that brings commodity specific analytics to all business users, and InSight CM, a next-generation integrated system for managing commodity transactions end-to-end throughout the value chain. These two solutions provide the analytical and operational solutions

that commodities companies need to manage in today’s complex and volatile markets. With Eka, commodity companies run more efficiently, effectively, and profitably.