TRIPLE POINT BROCHURE
Strategic Planning
and Procurement
ADVANCED SUPPLY AND DEMAND PLANNING / COVERAGE REPORTING AND ANALYSIS /
DECISION SUPPORT
OVERVIEW
For over seventeen years, Triple Point Technology has deployed systems to the world’s most successful global commodity houses, energy companies and manufacturing organizations, enabling them to proactively manage the physical and financial buying, selling, logistics, scheduling, accounting and risk management of multiple commodities on an integrated platform. Today’s business environment has
unprecedented complexity and pressures making the management of coverage, supply chains and profit margins more difficult than ever before.
Right Product, Right Place, Right Time
The goal in balancing supply and demand is to get the right product to the right place at the right time to optimize profitability. As commodity and energy prices have become much more volatile in recent years, it has made balancing the physical and economic plans more difficult. When volatile commodity prices are coupled with longer, more global and complex supply chains, and then “sustainability” pressure to lower emissions is added to the mix, it can become a Herculean task.
Market-Based Supply Chain
Organizations must be able to look across alternative deals including sourcing alternatives, associated
transport outlays and plant operation costs to determine the best transaction. Solutions require simulation modeling of scenarios, along with real-time business intelligence to support decision making. Profit and loss has to be measured against the market and not just budget or plan to determine true operational performance. All associated costs including raw materials, freight, packaging, emissions, FX, basis, fuel for plant operations, broker fees, insurance, port fees, etc. need to be included in the analysis in order to manage a commodity “source-to-cash” supply chain.
Advanced Commodity Solution
Commodity XL is the only software platform that provides a “market-based,” “source-to-cash”
commodity supply chain solution for power, gas, bulk, liquid and packaged commodities, including advanced risk analytics, sophisticated decision support and real-time Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enhance executive decision-making.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND PLANNING
It’s imperative that the physical and economic plan meet corporate gross margin targets while managing operational requirements to fulfill customer demand. The solution must have the power and flexibility to
manage across all commodities, suppliers,
transportation modes, assets, locations, currencies,
Strategic Planning and Procurement (SPP)
Survey: 100 global companies
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Analyze and compare sourcing alternatives
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Manage source-to-cash commodity supply chain
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Regulate inventory based on market data
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Increase visibility into positions
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Implement effective hedge strategies
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Synchronize information flow throughout
the supply chain
Key Benefits
COVERAGE REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
The question in setting a plan is not whether there will be changes but how best to react to evolving economic, market, supplier and customer requirements. Visibility into data is required in real time with the analysis tools to create decision-making information. The traditional paradigm of analysts spending the majority of time collecting data versus analyzing information must be flipped to drive success.
Commodity XL Strategic Planning and Procurement provides the complete, real-time reporting and analysis tools to manage operational coverage and to plan in
fast-moving, complex business conditions. It delivers economic analysis to
determine root causes of variances to planned costs, revenues and profit margins. All positions
including storage, in-transit inventory
and in-tank blending are integrated into
coverage analysis. Open trading activity such as spot/forward, futures, options, term contracts, bulk and rack liftings and exchanges are also allocated to forecast. Covered and uncovered positions are updated in real time to ensure operational and economic plan efficiency and effectiveness.
Key Features
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Manage logistics — vessel, barge, pipeline, truck, railcar, etc.
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Automate allocations of trading to forecast (or user-defined)
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Allocate derivative to a hedge period
Commodity XL Strategic Planning and Procurement™ manages, measures, analyzes and reports coverage for an integrated physical and economic plan. The SPP solution includes all physical assets such as commodities, plants, storage facilities, tanks and silos, to name a few, and has the flexibility to manage different calendar and budget periods. Time-period definition is flexible to support an organization’s requirements for longer dated periods like annual to monthly, weekly and daily granularity. As plans change to reflect market conditions, SPP provides the capability to “look back” and understand changes and drivers from version to version.
Key Features
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Integrate supply, forecasted
demand and trading plan
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Employ user-defined
planning hierarchies
and time periods
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Roll-up / drill-down
layered forecast
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into physical
trading position
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Capture via grid,
graphical, APIs,
or Excel Import
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Analyze projected costs
with forecasted quantities
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Break down to component prices
(e.g., Futures, Basis, Freight, Credits, etc.)
“Fueled by a tough economy where cash is king, expense reduction is required, and cost savings are critical to survival, sourcing
technologies have become a commodity that most companies can no longer do without.”
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Support “link” to hedge pool, plan, or more precise
forecast allocations
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Handle partial trade quantity allocations
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Provide budget variance and impact reporting
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Assess projected variances based on current market data
DECISION SUPPORT
Simulation models and business intelligence tools are required in fast-changing markets to determine the best deal structure across the supply chain. Potential market shifts can change decisions across sourcing, logistics, operations, hedging and marketing. Sophisticated decision support systems provide advantage versus competitors working in spreadsheets.
Strategic Planning and Procurement’s simulation and business intelligence tools put you in control to make your company’s most important bottom-line decisions. It delivers the speed, flexibility and ease-of-use needed to identify trends, problems and opportunities — proactively and precisely.
Simulation of potential scenarios is key preparation for the inevitable business climate alterations that will affect coverage. Simulate changes to raw material prices, energy prices, volatility surfaces, product qualities and inspection results, different timing of deliveries and multiple logistic schedules.
Key Features
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Simulate impact of market changes to plan
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Update simulation parameters including:
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market prices and curves
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volatility surfaces
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timing of deliveries
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physical scheduling/logistics attributes
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product quality and inspection results
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Measure impact of plan changes to coverage and budget
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Gain real-time business intelligence
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Deliver flexible real-time reporting and data extraction
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Analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
CONCLUSION
Commodity XL Strategic Planning and Procurement is a revolutionary leap forward in the management, measurement and analysis of supply and demand planning and operations. SPP has the sophisticated analysis and reporting tools to manage commodity coverage in the fast-changing, complex commodities markets. Strategic Planning and Procurement is the only software product that provides a “market-based,” “source-to-cash” commodity supply chain solution for
power, gas, bulk, liquid and packaged commodities.
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“Data are becoming the new raw material of business: an economic input almost on a par with capital and labor.”
—The Economist: “Data, data everywhere”
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ABOUT TRIPLE POINT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Triple Point is the leading global provider of innovative software solutions to efficiently and profitably manage commodities and enterprise risk. Triple Point’s growing, loyal customer base of over 260 companies represent all industries with exposure to energy and raw materials including oil and gas, coal, metals, agriculture, transportation, shipping, consumer products (CP), discrete manufacturers, and big box retailers. The company was named a ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s ETRM Magic Quadrant for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. Triple Point offers the only real-time solution to manage market/price, counterparty credit, operational, and regulatory risk on a tightly integrated platform. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Westport, CT, USA, Triple Point employs over 600 people in 11 offices and support centers around the globe.
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How to Get Started
To learn how Triple Point’s Commodity XL software solutions can benefit your supply, marketing, procurement, hedging or trading activities, please contact us at one of our offices below.
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