Elevating decision-making in a complex metals market
In this inherently cyclical sector, everyday decisions around volatility, operational efficiency, and strategic investment are central to maintaining successful operations. Key decision areas include:
- Forecasting metal prices, swaps, and global commodity trends.
- Managing freight, shipping and logistics costs and opportunities.
- Delivering on decarbonization strategies while managing Emissions Trading System (ETS) costs.
- Managing financial risk while planning for capital expansion and investment.
- Maximizing returns from trades across multiple metals.
- Managing hedges and exposure in volatile markets.
- Optimizing margins when trading multiple metals.
Daily decision-making supported by Zema Global
The Zema Global Decisioning Infrastructure helps tame complexity with integrated, flexible data and essential insights that create opportunities for long-term growth. With Zema Global, you can:
Capture real-time data directly from your preferred global sources and exchanges, including LME and ICE.
Integrate multiple metals data sources into your trading and hedging systems.
Build unlimited forward curves for pricing and scenario testing.
Track supply chain and operational capacity across global sites.
Resolve any trading, risk management, and resource allocation issues.
Select shipping routes, port allocation, and freight costs.
Data for building long-term success strategies
Working with Zema Global gives you the insights and intelligence to respond rapidly to market conditions and face down complexity with confidence. Zema Global enables you to:
- Enhance your trading and hedging decisions by capturing and analyzing pricing signals across commodities and markets.
- Smooth your capital and operational planning with data-driven forecasts and scenarios.
- Understand market cycles, assess opportunities and test your operating models with advanced analytics.
- Generate detailed forecasts, improve your planning and measure price-profit relationships by building forward-looking scenarios.
- Minimize environmental and financial risk by forecasting emissions costs and accurately evaluating your decarbonization strategies.
Comprehensive ecosystem for metals data
Zema Global’s metals data ecosystem includes:
- Metal prices
- Historical price curves
- Iron ore forward curves and settlements
- Precious metal fixings
- Steel swaps and feedstocks
- US steel prices
- Metals and minerals benchmarks
- Ferroalloy datasets
- Exchange open-interest data
- Freight and logistics data
“We replaced our data management system with Zema Global facilitating risk monitoring through improved data management, better integration, and forward curve building capabilities. We are pleased to be working with Zema Global.”
Alex Zhukovsky
“With Zema Global, we achieved our ambitious targets to improve business operations by offering a solution which is integrating various data types in a centralized platform with value adding analysis capabilities. Our data is now more accessible, to both users and downstream applications.”
Ulrich Endlich
“We replaced our data management system with Zema Global facilitating risk monitoring through improved data management, better integration, and forward curve building capabilities. We are pleased to be working with Zema Global.”
Alex Zhukovsky
“With Zema Global, we achieved our ambitious targets to improve business operations by offering a solution which is integrating various data types in a centralized platform with value adding analysis capabilities. Our data is now more accessible, to both users and downstream applications.”
