Competitive Advantage with AMCS Commodity Brokerage solutions

Competitive Advantage with AMCS Commodity Brokerage solutions

Our solutions facilitate the management of the end to end process workflows designed specifically to support a commodity brokerage business including the following features and benefits:

• Single Trading Screen to view both the Buy and Sell components for each transaction as it generates the necessary Purchase and Sales orders and links them seamlessly and updates them continuously with status and details such as weights and values.
• Full support for global trading including trading in different currencies, weight units of measurements and material descriptions
• Comprehensive calendar-based planning tools to support automated demand planning to ensure that you can accurately plan your logistics and operations
• Effective dating of all pricing means that changes of prices can be updated at any time up to the point of invoicing
• Automated and configurable pricing and rebates allows you to tie prices/rebates to indices and to change prices only at an index level
• Comprehensive tracking of all costs (purchase of material, freight, processing etc.)
• Full recording of expense accruals and link to associated revenue for gross profit calculation
• Full inventory management including cost tracking and valuation using both lot and perpetual inventory calculations
• Manages both AP and AR while monitoring customer credit risk via real time limit monitoring
• Produces all necessary shipping documentation with customizable templates
• Records all shipping booking, container numbers, photos of load details, seals etc.
• Gross margin calculations at load, contract, customer and supplier level
• Ease of integration into a separate financial system
• Mobile application tools allow your staff to collect, grade, inspect and cycle count without any need for paper and re-keying
• Full range of portals to allow you to collaborate digitally with customers, suppliers and partners ( e.g. third party haulers ) to allow data to move seamlessly across all stakeholders

Benefits for Commodity Brokerage organisations

Track and Protect Margin on each deal

It allows you to track gross profit by matching revenue and associated costs (e.g. purchase, freight, processing, shipping etc.) on each order.

Automate your Logistics Planning to optimise your costs

It provides an automated demand planning solution and calendar to you can plan all logistics activities in advance to optimise all your freight and processing costs.

Easy to use to maximise staff productivity

It has a modern user-friendly browser-based interface which is easy to use, particularly for staff who are not working in the office and need secure access, anytime, anywhere and on any device.

Manage your credit exposure and risk

It manages your trading risk by allowing you to update prices at any time to reflect new prices or currency fluctuations, as well as monitoring customer credit limits and with full Accounts Receivable functionality.

Automate all Administration

It’s directed workflows will lead users through staged processes and it will automatically produce templated documentation such as Bill of Ladings, invoices, job tickets, shipping documentation.

In addition, our range of portals provides self-service options for all your partners, including haulers, suppliers and customers.