E/CTRM Archives - Page 8 of 12

The Value of a Managed-Services Partner Post-Launch of CTRM Platforms

POSTED BY Clare Annis ON September 12, 2017 IN Blog, E/CTRM

When implementing or upgrading to a new commodity-trading-and-risk-management (CTRM) platform, many companies understand the value in partnering with a technical consultancy that has the in-depth skill set, knowledge, and experience to get the job done right. But it can be easy to overlook the value of maintaining this partnership once the platform is live. Launching …

Increase Fuel Buyers’ Loyalty to Your Brand vs. Getting Into Price Wars

POSTED BY Mike Scharf ON August 29, 2017 IN Blog, Digital Transformation, E/CTRM, Gravitate

Today’s market for buying and selling refined products is highly competitive. Lots of wholesale marketers compete for sales to a limited number of buyers. Faced with a glut of choices, buyers tend to purchase based solely on who offers the lowest price at any given time. In this landscape, your success as a seller is …

Station Nominations Made Easy

POSTED BY capSpire ON August 20, 2017 IN E/CTRM, Optimization, Video

Crude Gathering Station Nominations Made Easy The Monthly Nomination feature enables marketers to easily determine the optimal monthly nomination volume using a proprietary optimization model. The key to maximizing monthly P&L is correctly setting nomination volumes at each receiving station or pipeline. Helps organizations accurately forecast lease volume and understand transportation costs, station quality constraints/penalties, …

LCO Cloud Solution Makes it Simple to Optimize your Network

POSTED BY capSpire ON August 18, 2017 IN Digital Transformation, E/CTRM, Optimization, Video

Learn How capSpire’s Lease Crude Optimization Cloud Solution Makes it Simple to Optimize your Network: The offering includes a secure web-based portal that each energy marketer, scheduler, lease rep and manager has a unique login for. The software enables the modeling of existing supply chains in order to understand the impact on P&L due …

capSpire’s Optimization Platform

POSTED BY capSpire ON July 20, 2017 IN Digital Transformation, E/CTRM, Optimization, Video

Learn How capSpire’s Optimization Platform Can Help Your Organization: Make more informed buy and sell decisions Better understand and identify location spreads Maximize the value of your blends Accurately identify time spreads and contango opportunities Easily identify the most profitable supply and demand option Optimize scheduling and logistics across all available transportation methods Better capitalize …

Nominating Lease Volumes for Maximum Profitability

POSTED BY Bernard Wehbe ON July 11, 2017 IN Blog, Digital Transformation, E/CTRM, Optimization

As you probably know all too well, each of your station nominations tends to be based on the lease-station combinations that you calculated when you first acquired the lease. Every month, you add new lease volume and subtract relinquished leases. However, as new information becomes available, reassessing each of your leases every month can be …

Win Lease Bids at the Right Price and in Less Time

POSTED BY Bernard Wehbe ON June 14, 2017 IN Blog, Digital Transformation, E/CTRM, Optimization

It’s important that 1st purchasers respond to lease bids with competitive offers to beat out many other buyers. However, it’s even more critical to pinpoint the right price—one that makes sense economically for the purchaser and ensures a wide enough margin considering factors such as the distance from lease to station, transport fees, station fees, …

Ireland and the European Electricity Market: Changes on the Horizon

POSTED BY Joseph Collins ON May 8, 2017 IN Analytics, Blog, Digital Transformation, E/CTRM

So what’s happening in Ireland’s electricity market? Well, in May 2018 the current electricity market, the Single Electricity Market (SEM), will cease to exist and it will be replaced by the Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM). Two immediate questions spring to mind. Firstly, why the change? Secondly, what are the main features of this new …

How Configurable .NET Business Rules in RightAngle Empower Your Business

POSTED BY Jose Jo ON April 7, 2017 IN Blog, E/CTRM, RightAngle

Some .NET business rules were made to be broken. Well, maybe it’s more accurate to say that it’s ok to bend some rules at specific times. Business rules are powerful functionality in the RightAngle .NET framework that enable companies to implement condition-based validation rules. Some clients don’t take advantage of this feature because implementing a …

cAST Simplifies Day-to-Day Allegro Use Without Additional Support

POSTED BY Rob Parker ON March 8, 2017 IN Allegro, Blog, E/CTRM

A single application that you can download and run for free, cAST enables you to work with your full Allegro system and gain back-end data access—without logging directly into the database and complicating security. Instead, users of cAST can perform many database-related tasks via Allegro Web Services, which is either installed on-site or cloud-based. cAST …