Commodity trading is not as simple as it used to be, and increasing environmental and sustainability demands are only adding to the operational and reporting burdens. In this interview, Richard Williamson, Gen10 CEO & Founder, sits down with Ben Hillary from Commodities People to discuss this increasing complexity and how we can respond to it.…
Metals and concentrates traders have a great deal of information to manage, made all the more complex by the assays that form a critical part of this information. Assays play an important role in pricing, so every premium and penalty needs to be accounted for in contracts. But assays are also highly changeable and can…
Successful cotton trading comes down to managing large amounts of data in many different documents and formats. Data enters your organisation through many channels, from contract negotiations, to take-up, gin, and HVI files. This data is then used to manage your real-world operations before being incorporated into a range of other documents to share it…
Cotton is a particularly complex commodity to trade due to the intricate logistics processes involved. These processes can introduce operational risk, delays, and cause major headaches for operators trying to establish reliable supply chains for their organisations and clients. There is a great deal of data to manage and communicate with supply chain partners, and…
At Gen10, we don’t often talk about “ags and softs” as we think it’s important to treat each commodity individually and respect the nuances between each product. Nuances that lead to very different trading processes and therefore different CTRM system requirements. However, today we are taking an overarching view of the ags and softs landscape.…
