Supply management software to manage the complexity of physical logistics

Openlink’s solution for bulk commodity logistics is designed to support multiple commodities, grades, and transportation types, while managing nominations and nomination groupings (such as product commitments, transportation schedules, and inventory movements). The solution organizes dates (such as nomination dates, changes, and delivery dates), and supports event-based pricing and payment. Additionally, it can record deliveries, record actual quantity / quality and price adjustments, and record ticket pricing / valuation.

Openlink provides an integrated logistics system for electricity markets, allowing traders, risk managers, back office users and schedulers to use and share one unique set of transactional data across the entire organization. Operational risks arising from the intricacies of managing physical obligations in power markets with different scheduling requirements and rules are kept at a minimum. Schedulers at regulated utilities, and merchant generation companies can be confident that they will be able to manage all their physical positions with delivery obligations in an accurate and timely manner.

An Openlink solution covers the logistics process of natural gas transactions with an end-to-end natural gas transaction management solution for physical market participants.
The solution provides natural gas producers, pipeline operators, local distribution companies (LDCs), and wholesalers/marketers a complete front- to back-office transaction management environment – including trade capture and pricing, real-time position management, risk analytics, scheduling logistics, confirmation and settlement support, and accounting.