If you transact in raw materials, we’ve built a platform that helps you realize rapid digital transformation and unlock strategic value with minimal investment.

Our materialx® platform provides a suite of cloud-based services that transform the way raw material producers, distributors and consumers evaluate, manage, and execute transactions.

A New Online Service for Supply Chain Professionals: Introducing materialx Decision Support

Actionable information at your fingertips to help drive better raw material procurement decisions.

The materialx platform was built to meet the information and transaction needs of buyers and sellers of raw materials as a fully configurable alternative to developing in-house systems.

Core platform functionalities provide the following building blocks:

Make raw material pricing data accessible and understandable

Access raw material market data from multiple sources in an actionable format

Tie purchasing and sales decisions to raw material market data

Simulate potential outcomes and what-if scenarios

Facilitate communications regarding raw material opportunities and decisions

Built-in collaboration functionality

Manage invitations and onboarding of suppliers and customers to transact

Maintain organizational knowledge and best practices

Enable inquiries from buyers and sellers that lead to negotiated transactions

Efficiently convert inquiries into proposals

Tie between supply and demand and manage profit margins

Enable transacting parties to negotiate spot, fixed price, and indexed transactions

Simplify online execution of transactions with counterparties

Define templates to suit transactions of any type

Enjoy state-of-the-art record keeping

Monitor the progress and effectiveness of decisions and transactions over time

Evaluate decision outcomes

Track deliveries and settlements

Customize reports

Solutions

Impactful

Establish organizational insights into the effects of raw material pricing on your business

Collaborative

Involve all necessary stakeholders in raw material purchase decisions through a single intuitive interface

Visible Outcomes

Understand the potential economic outcomes of purchase decisions by tying them to current and to future market pricing data

Continuous Improvement

Capture organizational knowledge and improve decision making processes by accessing documentation of past decisions

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Engage

Communicate with suppliers and customers accurately and efficiently through state-of-the-art digital interfaces to augment existing communications and manual processes

Configure

Platform can be customized for any raw materials, units, currencies, and types of transactions (spot, fixed price, indexed) while maintaining simplicity and intuitiveness for customers

Cost Effective

Avoid high costs and risks of building and maintaining an in-house solution

Efficient

Manage supply vs. demand, credit, transactions, and settlements in an efficient and automated manner

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Strategic

Grow revenues by deploying an online branded dealer platform for OTC hedging on materialx. Compete for and win new business without requiring a multi-million IT budget to build and maintain your own solution.

Engage

Unlock the potential of the underserved small and midsize manufacturing segment by offering capabilities to evaluate, negotiate, execute and track hedging contracts directly in just a few clicks. Providing these capabilities can increase participation, add liquidity to the market, and aggregate supply and demand

Configure

Broadly configurable and accommodates hedging of virtually any raw materials and units. The white labeled platform can be integrated with legacy systems. materialx complements brokers’ channels to new and existing customers

Efficient

Avoid acting as a “human quoting and logistics” machine. Respond to customers faster by managing supply/demand, and by utilizing automation capabilities to generate quotes and executions

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A New Online Service for Supply Chain Professionals: Introducing materialx Decision Support

Actionable information at your fingertips to help drive better raw material procurement decisions.

Learn More

The materialx platform was built to meet the information and transaction needs of buyers and sellers of raw materials as a fully configurable alternative to developing in-house systems.

Core platform functionalities provide the following building blocks:

Evaluation and Analysis

Communication and Collaboration

Inquiries and Negotiations

Execution and Documentation

Tracking and Settlements

Make raw material pricing data accessible and understandable

Facilitate communications regarding raw material opportunities and decisions

Enable inquiries from buyers and sellers that lead to negotiated transactions

Simplify online execution of transactions with counterparties

Monitor the progress and effectiveness of decisions and transactions over time