TransRisk · A brief
Commodity exposure, P&L, margins, and risk
in one enterprise view.
Exposure, P&L, margin and risk on open positions are commercial questions, not accounting outputs. TransRisk answers them in one enterprise view, configured to each industry.
10
Algorithms
owned by TransGraph
360°
Visibility across commodity,
plant and market
4
Automated P&L
measures daily
2010
TransRisk go-live
Commodity risk since 2003
The problem
Your systems of record were never built for decision support.
ERP and CTRM systems answer to the ledger; spreadsheets answer to whoever built them. Neither leaves commodity teams with a number they can act on with confidence.
The gap
Decision support isn’t a native ERP/CTRM function
Procurement, trading and marketing teams need day-to-day visibility into net exposure, MtM P&L, business margins and market risk on open quantity — the numbers that actually drive commercial decisions. ERP and CTRM systems are built to satisfy accounting standards and internal SOPs, so the need goes unmet at the source system.
The workaround
Spreadsheets fill the gap — at the cost of accuracy and continuity
To bridge that gap, teams fall back on spreadsheets. This creates heavy dependency on the specific individuals who maintain the models, and every manual step — data pulls, formulas, rollovers — is a fresh opportunity for error, right when the numbers need to be trusted most.
The requirement
Decision-support views demand special treatment, not altered books
Net exposure, MtM P&L, margins and open-position risk require distinct handling of inventory, purchases, sales and hedges — including transfer pricing to isolate specific P&L metrics — all without touching the underlying accounting positions. Neither ERP nor spreadsheets do this safely or repeatably.
The decision layer
ERP and CTRM answer to the ledger.
Your desk needs a number it can act on.
What the desk decides with it
Trading
- Net long or short across physicals and hedges, in one book
- MtM and limit headroom before the trade, not the morning after
Manufacturing
- Crush and refining margin at your own plant recovery rates
- Transfer pricing that isolates the plant’s own P&L
FMCG
- Finished-goods SKUs exploded back to the commodity underneath
- Landed cost and budget variance for the buying window ahead
TransRisk
Decision-support layer
sits over them, not instead of them
- Net exposure on open quantity
- VaR & scenarios
- Limits & alerts
- Open MtM
- Margin P&L
- Closed P&L
- Realised P&L
One governed set of numbers — the same one for procurement, trading, finance and risk.
Systems of record
Every posting and every audit trail, exactly as it was
ERP
Postings, costing and the statutory close
CTRM
Trade life cycle, contracts and logistics
Spreadsheets
Hand-built models, maintained by one person
The gap was never the data. Decision support was never the source system’s job — and it does not require altering its books.
Problems we solve — 1 of 4
Oil & Oilseeds
Crushing · Refining · Procurement
What we solve — 9
- Price-to-be-fixed contracts
- Basis trades
- Paper trades
- Custom matching
- Transfer pricing
- Plant yields and recovery rates
- Hedge allocation
- Duty benefit tracking
- Multi-currency positions
Softs & Plantations
Refining · Blends · Hedging
What we solve — 7
- Dynamic pricing on purchases and sales
- Basis risk
- Refining and grade spreads
- Custom matching
- Blends
- Hedge allocation
- Contango and backwardation
Problems we solve — 2 of 4
FMCG & Consumer Goods
Budgeting · Procurement · Margin
What we solve — 8
- Budgeting
- Benchmarking
- Bettering the budget
- Bettering the market
- Mark to consumption
- Hedging price risk
- Commodity P&L
- Procurement and branding P&L
Grains & Pulses
Seasonal · Processing · Long-term contracts
What we solve — 6
- Cash-and-carry pricing
- Long-term contracts
- Origin differential premiums
- Plant recovery rates
- Hedge allocation
- Destination market parity
Problems we solve — 3 of 4
Metals & Mining
LME · COMEX · Exotic derivatives
What we solve — 8
- Shipment-wise net exposure
- Unhedged P&L
- Dynamic pricing and indexing
- QC-based price variations
- Shipment tracking
- Spreads and exotics
- Destination market margins
- Pass-through and agent-based settlements
Energy & Petrochemicals
Refining · Feedstock · Cracks
What we solve — 7
- Feedstock margins
- Finished goods exposure and MtM
- Hedge allocations
- Basis risk
- Crack spreads
- Shipment-wise analytics
- Forward month-wise exposure planning
Problems we solve — 4 of 4
Packaging – Paper & Polymers
Multiple grades · SKU exposure · Divergent inputs
What we solve — 7
- Divergent physical exposure
- Finished goods and SKU exposure
- Limited forward coverage
- Budget versus actual
- Basis risk
- Hedge effectiveness
- Counterparty risk
Multi Commodity
Multi-desk · Multi-entity · Multi-currency
What we solve — 9
- Physical exposure
- Derivative exposure
- Gross and net MtM P&L
- Destination-market-wise P&L
- Settlements
- Closed P&L
- Spreads
- Basis risk
- Trader-wise MtM and limits
The return on TransRisk
The return comes from effort removed, preventing over/under exposures, and breaches prevented.
2 hours
Morning data-preparation cycle
removed, from day one
4 daily
Automated P&L measures,
Limit utilisation triggers a warning
before a breach occurs
60–80%
Simplifying end-of-month reconciliation,
Reduction in manual reporting,
Quick response to ad-hoc queries.
| Decisions before commitment | Pre-trade, pre-purchase and pre-hedge analysis replaces post-mortem reporting: the margin a price locks in is visible before the order is confirmed. |
| One number, no disputes | Procurement, trading, finance, risk and leadership work from the same position data, so “whose number is right?” stops being a weekly argument. |
| Hedge efficiency | Hedges sized against a real net exposure instead of an approximation — less premium spent on excess cover, fewer margin calls on unnecessary positions, no uncovered gaps. |
| Reporting cadence | Board-level commodity risk reporting becomes a daily capability rather than a weekly/monthly effort, with an audit trail kept without manual upkeep. |
Thank you
See it on your own positions.
A 45-minute tailored session with our team. Pre-configured for your industry and asset classes. No generic demos.
- 8
- industries, each configured
- 60+
- commodities covered
TransRisk sits alongside your ERP and reads from it. It writes back to nothing.
Where to next
Work email only · we email a secure link, valid 24 hours