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CTRM for Ags & Softs
EKA
www.ekaplus.com

Eximware
www.eximware.com

GrainWorx
www.grainworx.com

Eka provides Smart Commodity
Management software solutions. The
company’s
solutions
manage
commodity trading, enterprise risk,
compliance,
procurement,
supply
chain, operations, logistics, bulk
handling, processing, and decision
support. 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. Its CTRM
software product is InSight CM. It also
offers an Origination product and a
Supplier Collaboration Portal.

Eximware provides commodity, trade
and supply chain solutions to entities
involved in the global commodity and
export/import
trade.
Used
by
companies involved in all facets of the
commodity trade in coffee, cocoa, tea,
grains and metals, it offers three
products
including
eMarketplace,
Importers, Trader & Buyers (TLM) and
Exporters & Processors (ELM).

GrainWorx is a complete commodity
trading system from Remote Software
Development, Inc. It covers everything
from trade execution to final settlement
and is designed to be scalable and
usable solution for grains.

Commodity Markets

Grains

Oilseeds

Cotton, Cocoa, Coffee and
Sugar

Biofuel

Chemicals & fertilizers

Livestock

Dairy
Supply Chain Coverage

Commodity Trading (physical
and financial, FX and IR,
what-if scenarios

Raw Material Procurement
(demand, budgets, forecasts,
position coverage,
procurement, hedging)

Risk & Compliance (position,
MtM, P&L, stress testing,
VaR, compliance)

Supply Chain & Operations
(scheduling &logistics)

Bulk Handling (bulk stock
management, process
management)

Origination (reconciliation,
inventory management,
pricing)

Supplier Collaboration Portal
(real-time pricing from
suppliers, contract
management)
Sweet Spots



Grains – Integrated Supply
Chain

eMarketplace
- Inter-Commercial
Marketplace (ICM) is designed to
leverage the Internet as a medium for
negotiation while preserving the
business requirements and controls of
a commodity contract. Subscribers can
use this platform as an electronic trade
blotter to negotiate and agree price,
quality, delivery and any other terms.
TLM
Commodity Markets

Grains

Coffee

Cocoa

Tea
Supply Chain Coverage

Contracts & Position
Management

Buy/Sell Allocations

Futures &Options

Mark-to-Market

Logistics/Traffic

Inventory Management and
Control

Inventory Tracking &
Forecasting

Client Invoicing & Cash
Applications

Quality Control & Sampling

Cost Accounting

Commodity Markets

Grains & Seeds
Supply Chain Coverage

Trading (trade capture, costs,
quality, freight, position
management)

Settlement

Facilities (bin management,
facility management)

Reports (pre-canned and
download to Excel, Access,
etc.)

Accounting (Optional GL,
Credit Limits)

Grainweb (customer portal)
Sweet Spots

Physical Grain
The company also offers a number of
other software tools for grains
including FeedWorx, ScaleWorx and
WrkWorx.

ELM Commodity Markets

Grains

Coffee, Cocoa

Tea
Supply Chain Coverage

Purchasing and Sales

Milling/Processing
Sweet Spots



Coffee – Integrated Supply
Chain

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