Balsamo
The New Generation
of CTRM and Commodity Management Software
With full lifecycle management and all calculations integrated – no more spreadsheets
Balsamo is a unique CTRM capable of handling the full trade lifecycle of any commodity and is unrivalled for simplifying complex management of Raw materials, Refined, Scrap, Concentrates, Precious metals.
Selecting a CTRM solution can be one of the most important long-term business decisions a company can make. To support this process, Balsamo can be made available as a unique low-cost zero-commitment try-before-you buy Proof of Concept license - allowing thorough evaluation of the solution with real-world data and business processes prior to purchase.
Personalised dashboard
Simple invoicing module for complex deals
Customable trading cards
Dynamic & accurate graph reports
The Commodities Engineering team has expert industry knowledge resulting in short implementation lead-times.
We enable our clients to:
- Produce, purchase, sell, consume, transport, transform, finance and insure complex commodities worldwide
- Monitor and hedge the market, client, operational risks resulting from the increasingly volatile and unpredictable Commodities Markets
- Capture, exchange, report data in a stream-lined and secured manner
Balsamo is a comprehensive platform with the following benefits:
- Developed using latest technologies
- Based on a fast, precise and scalable Core Engine which is capable of handling large volumes and providing fast results for complex algorithms
- Modulable and Cloud-based facilitating worldwide usage
Balsamo can fit any commodity, and in particular:
Metals Raw Materials
Scrap
Concentrates
Precious
Refined
Steel
“Thanks to Commodities Engineering and their software we are able to manage the entire lifecycle of a large range of commodities and handle different levels of complexities with ease. Their Cloud solution gives us the flexibility to work remotely from any location in the world and ensure that our business is streamlined”.
Doug Pratt, CEO
Greenwich Metals Inc.
“TThe Commodities Engineering team has impressed with us with their proven capacity to speedly and efficiently deliver software design to handle our must complex business cases. The CE team understand the business verry well and are quick to assist where needed. We consider them a long team partner”.
Claudia Suter, Head of Traffic & Administration
Manatrade
« Balsamo currently handles real time data and logistics/operations every day (from the most complex to the simplest of commodities) for our clients who are located in 4 continents »
Meet Commodities Engineering team
I founded Commodities Engineering with the objective of serving the physical commodities trading industry by providing a new generation of CTRM that allows for better control of risks, more integrated stream-lining of business processes, and is more competitively priced than any other product on the market.
Jérôme Seguin
CEO
Sudarshan DC
DevOps Engineer
You are a physical commodities Trading House, a Producer, a Miner or a Consumer
who is globally producing, purchasing, selling, transporting, transforming and financing goods.
Your enterprise may have one or multiple subsidiaries in different locations handling one or multiple commodities. Your counterparts are worldwide with varying profiles as miners, smelters or manufacturers. You need to provide them with reliable services: delivering, financing and hedging.
You need to monitor and control your risks
by following daily prices, premiums, forex positions and valuing risks to take the correct hedging decisions. You need to know your counterparts’ credit limits and monitor moving contractual parameters to ensure that they are not breaching them. Your business requires accurate cash management and cashflows.
You need to perform complex logistic activities
handling transportation of goods globally overland, by ocean or by air. You need to produce accurate and complex invoices and documents for custom clearance and insurance purposes, to anticipate and monitor shipping schedules and to track your inventory in warehouse.
You need to have an auditable, compliant and controlled accounting of your activities
in order to produce accurate and explainable financial and risk reports to your management, share-holders, banks, auditors.
Our solution
We enable our clients to:
Produce, purchase, sell, consume, transport, transform, finance and insure complex commodities worldwide
Monitor and hedge the market, client, operational risks resulting from the increasingly volatile and unpredictable Commodities Markets
Capture, exchange, report data in a stream-lined and secured manner
Balsamo is a comprehensive platform with the following benefits:
Developed using latest technologies
Based on a fast, precise and scalable Core Engine which is capable of handling large volumes and providing fast results for complex algorithms
Modulable and Cloud-based facilitating worldwide usage
Manage the whole life cycle of your trades
Specialising in CTRM for metals concentrates, raw materials and refined metal, CE is the leading provider of CTRM solutions for the metals, scrap and recycling industries. Our clients range from miners to traders and end consumers. Designed by a team from the metals industry our CTRM, ‘Balsamo’, is a fast, reliable, scalable, efficient and user-friendly CTRM using latest technology to provide the best user experience to manage these demanding and complex commodities.
We are so confident in Balsamo that we offer a unique risk free, try before you buy, Proof of Concept to allow you to put your most complex trades and scenarios through the system before committing to purchase.
Strengths
Standard Features
- Fast and easy trade-capture system for metals deals management.
- Supports Raw Materials such as metal concentrates, Scraps, Industrial Minerals, Minor Metals, Precious Metals by calculating payable contents and their specific business rules – treatment charges, refining charges, price, participation, price sharing, escalators etc.
- Allows you to create new complex business rules: Payables, TC, RC, PP, Scales, …
- Efficient and scalable processing supports real-time and end-of-period P&L, mark to market and risk calculation.
- Integrated BI tools deliver complex position, P&L reports and risks cards.
- Web-based SaaS or dedicated hosting options.
- Manages multiple users, companies, commodities, units of measurement, currencies and products
- Provides segregated environments by company, commodity and book.
- Offers a flexible pricing formula module based on quotation periods compliant with different markets pricing rules – such as LME, LBMA, COMEX, SHFE
- Many-to-many allocations of physical-to- physical and physical-to-futures/Forex
- Optimise contract optionality, QP’s, back pricing, delivery, qualities etc.
- Inventory, WSMD, logistics, blending, tolling, Invoicing, assay exchanges and analysis
- Fast end of day, month, period P&L/MTM closing, data import/export & interfacing
Producing – Trading – Logistic – Risks – Hedging – Accounting – Treasury – Financial Controls – Consuming
Our Offer to the Metal Industry
Benefit from a unique blend of proven industry knowledge, try before you buy and an unequalled licencing and service package.
The Commodities Engineering team have implemented CTRM solutions for traders, miners and smelters working with raw materials, concentrates and base metals industries across the globe. The team are unique in their industry experience, comprising of former Financial Managers and Controllers for daily P&L, MTM and risk, and contract/ traffic administrators.
We know your industry because we’re part of it.
Our Unique Proposition
- We are the leading provider of CTRM solutions for the metals, scrap and recycling industries
- We offer a unique, risk free ‘try before you buy’ proof of concept allowing you to input your most complex trades and scenarios through the system before committing to purchase
- Our design team consists of people from the raw metals and refined world who have an unparalleled knowledge of the industry
- Our system is fast, reliable, scalable, efficient and user-friendly
- We use the latest technology to provide the best user experience to manage demanding and complex commodities
- We respect and support our clients, partners and people
Contact us
contact@commoditiesengineering.com
Land-Line : + 41 (22) 575 33 24
CE-Commodities Engineering SARL
Address : Chemin du vieux-puits 15 - 1228 Plan-les-Ouates - Switzerland
Email : contact@commoditiesengineering.com
Land-Line : + 41 (22) 575 33 24
www.commoditiesengineering.com
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