Grain Track – is a web-based CTRM-system for commodity trading companies to manage:
counterparties, supply chain, logistics, invoices, vessels and documents.
We resolve three painful problems of grain traders :
- Lack of complete picture of finance and trade situation at the moment: lots of contracts, shipments, invoices and documents at the same time.
- Difficult and untimely forecasting of cash flow, trade position and profit and loss
- Financial and timing costs on communication, discussions, meetings and accounting by managers and employees
Commotrack outputs:
- Consolidated information about all counterparties
- Statistics of trade operations by each product
- Estimated and actual profit and loss by each deal
- Physical + derivatives position and mark to market
- Accounting and stocks management
- Stuff control and KPI
4. -2 000 000 $
According to Commodity Technology Advisory
(ComTech):
Trader error, due to the accidental repositioning of the
formula in the cell, caused a loss in the amount of
MISTAKE COST
5. HOW GRAIN TRACK HELPS
9x
Quicker contracting
and business
con
fi
rmation
12x
Quicker
documents
preparation and
invoicing
10x
Quicker emails
sending
7x
Quicker
reporting
NO
Excel-like mistakes
6. GRAINTRACK COMPANY PROFILE
Established 2015
Countries we already work with UK, Canada, Switzerland, Morocco, Kazachstan, Ukraine
Products we work with Grains, sugar, coffee, oil, gas
Experience we have
30+ years combined in grain trading,
40+ years combined in IT
Main advantages
- Own product, no vendor lock
- Web-based
- Subscription model
- Customisation, own development
- Best market practices
- Dedicated support
7. VALUES GRAINTRACK BRINGS
MANAGERS
• Reports
• Analytics
• Quick decision making
• All data consolidation
• Transparency
• Control
• Helicopter view
EMPLOYEES
• Mistakes elimination
• Automatisation
• Double work elimination
• Documents generation
• Reports preparation
• Time saved for another work
8. HOW IT WORKS
OPERATIONS AND EXECUTION
- CONTRACTS
- FUTURES
- VEHICLES REGISTRY
- BILLS OF LADING
- WAREHOUSE INFO
- PAYMENTS
• AUTOMATED INVOICES
• DOCUMENTS PRINTING
• PNL REPORT
• POSITION + MTM REPORT
• RISK EXPOSURE
• EXECUTION REPORTS
• REAL TIME ANALYTICS
• CASH FLOW REPORT
• AR & AP REPORT
• MARKET AND FX DATA
Users just have to enter information about operations
and import some execution documents.
Everything else will be done by GrainTrack.
9. Operations, documents, invoices, bills of lading, vehicles, vessels - everything under control
and duly stored in cloud. You can have 24/7 access from every device. Track operations,
generate documents, calculated PNL, issue invoices, receive noti
fi
cations and many more.
ALL DATA IN A SINGLE PLACE
10. 7 QUESTION TO ANSWER BEFORE DEMO
• What problem are you willing to solve with a solution?
• Top-3 pains right now?
• What is your supply chain? From A to Z
• Do you work with derivatives?
• Do you hedge operations?
• What is your accounting system?
• Have you used any CTRM, ERP, CRM before?
13. 1. Creating trade
ticket via App
3. Creating business
con
fi
rmation on email
2. Approving deal
inside a team
4. Approved ticket will appear
in the system, signalling the
execution
5. In two clicks execution will
print the contract
CASE #1: TRADE TICKETS
Each new deal can be pre-calculated and entered via mobile app.
Then everyone involved will receive noti
fi
cation on email/messenger with the details of the deal.
If it is accepted, trade team can instantly print business con
fi
rmation and send it via email.
Then the execution team will make a contract and print it in docx or pdf.
14. System will automatically calculate both physical and derivatives position. Moreover, each
operation that has open quantity will be automatically evaluated by the recent market
quotation.
CASE #2: TRADE POSITION + MTM
15. CASE #3: FIXING & HEDGING
If you have contracts with premium prices - GT will calculate everything for you.
All you have to do, is to enter the contract, link it to derivative and then the system will automatically calculate
fl
at
price, based on market and partial
fi
xings you might perform by this contract. And rolling is considered, as well.
Also each contract can be hedged and you will see your MTM position both from physical perspective and futures
perspective.
17. CASE #1: DOCUMENTS GENERATION
Email, business con
fi
rmation, sale or purchase contract, cargo or cost invoice, packing list, notice of
appropriation, any kind of certi
fi
cates - all of these can be printed from the system in two clicks.
18. CASE #2: NOTIFICATIONS
You can receive automatic reports on email or in messenger.
Also, you will receive noti
fi
cations on all important events: ETA of the vessel, deadlines by contracts,
payment dates, etc.
19. CASE #3: NEWSLETTERS
Graintrack allows you to send multiple newsletters to you suppliers and buyers with an attachments.
E.g. system can send a reminder of all unpaid invoices or list of shipped vehicles with full set of
documents, associated with a deal.
20. CASE #4: WEB CABINETS
You can grant access to part of information in your system to your customer. E.g. your customer can
enter a website when he will see list of all contracts, execution and invoices with his company, the
status of payment, the availability of documents, etc. This will reduce amount of unnecessary calls.
22. CASE #1: AUTOMATED INVOICING
Once you have an execution in the system you can automatically make invoices based on bills of
lading or vehicles. No more mistakes in invoices. Cargo and costs, incoming and outgoing. Grain
Track will generate invoice and its PDF form with a possibility to send it to a customer with a full
package of documents.
23. CASE #2: OPERATIONS PNL
System automatically calculates operational PNL by each deal.
When we match sale and purchase together, we can estimate preliminary
fi
nancial result, based on contract prices
and projected costs. Then after we got the execution
fi
gures, the execution PNL will appear automatically, as well,
as the PNL when we will have invoices. So you will have a possibility to track all discrepancies deal by deal and
make a consolidated report.
24. CASE #3: PAYABLES AND RECEIVABLES
After feed cargo and costs invoices to the system we can build AP & AR report, cash
fl
ow report.
Regarding AP & AR, now it is very easy to understand how much and who owes you and vice versa.
Moreover, we have automated ageing calculation, so you will see the structure of debts.
25. CASE #4: BALANCE AND P&L
We have double entry which can be automatised. Each time, when execution team makes an
invoice, certain
fi
nancial accounts will be
fi
lled based on set up behaviour in the system, which will
save much time for an accountant. The outcome will be re
fl
ected in Balance and P&L reports.
27. 7 NEXT STEPS
1 1st DEMO WE ARE HERE
2 DATA PREPARATION
1. Users list
2. Document templates
3. Passport example (Purchase, Sale, Vessel/BL/Logistics, Invoices, Costs)
3 2st DEMO
1. Set up your own system
2. Show you example with your real data
3. Grant you 1 week supported demo access
4 CONTRACT & PAYMENT
1. Agree contract terms and sign a contract
2. Integration and subscription payment
5 INTEGRATION
1. Integration plan set-up
2. Step by step guidance through the integration goals
3. Customisation and development (if needed)
4. Importing historical data (if needed)
5. Training sessions with employees + live examples + user manuals
6. Decision made that all integration goals are completed
6 GO LIVE
1. Production launch at of
fi
cial start date
2. Everyone noti
fi
ed
7 SUPPORT
1. 24/7 Dedicated support
2. Training sessions for new employees