Based on a highly productive management of time series SOPTIM PMS comprehensively supports procurement and trade organizations in all tasks in portfolio management. Users profit from structured processes for portfolio management and nomination. The professional integration of systems for optimization, forecast and distribution as well as stock markets and other information platforms is a central condition for automated processes. This guarantees minimal effort and costs of portfolio management and a high quality of data and processes.

Using modules in line with the market that are easy to handle even complex portfolios can be modeled simply and clearly. Besides the core modules portfolio management and balancing group management SOPTIM PMS provides modules to calculate price forward curves (PFC), hedging of positions, creation of stock market offers, risk management, reconstruction of balancing group billing, reporting and many other tasks. Market news are processed and communicated with a high degree of automation.

Portfolio management always takes place in an environment characterized by three main features: the organization (front, middle, back office), partners in the market (contacts, communication addresses) and structures of the market (control areas, balancing groups and the like). SOPTIM PMS provides options to model these structures according to requirements. This is the basis for both a structured and transparent processing of all sub-processes and the setup of an energetic and economic reporting.

SOPTIM PMS is proficient in the market rules of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Any trade transactions and energy flows can be modeled and managed flexibly in the system. Flexible models of pricing are assigned to transactions and coupled with algorithmic procedures customary in the market. Indexed prices can also be used. A multitude of cockpit functions enables users to monitor the status of transactions and portfolios comfortably.

SOPTIM leaves nothing to be desired. The integrated risk management suite provides multifaceted risk indexes to evaluate portfolios and positions. Modern procedures like the Monte-Carlo-Simulation make exact analyses of changes in the value of portfolios possible, even at the end of the evaluation periods. Using the portfolio editor all portfolios, transactions and processes can be controlled comfortably and clearly. Any higher a transparency is just not possible.

Systematically Always on the Safe Side
As management cockpit SOPTIM PMS can be used universally: for procurement and trade of electricity and gas just as for the modeling and marketing of generation capacity. Realistic and objective estimates of risks and chances can be made for all portfolios and positions at any time.

Individual risk strategies can be consistently realized and monitored. SOPTIM PMS calculates strategic indexes to evaluate the process of procurement and trade. Portfolios can be structured effectively. The complete scope of tools and modules can be applied to subsets without any limitations. The system processes bothersome tasks like schedule management automatedly.

SOPTIM PMS covers a wide variety of processes in one system and in every phase of the transaction ensures maximum transparency. Using it, you always have a clear view of the current value of your portfolios and the risks of open positions. In this the graphic desktop of the portfolio editor with its detailed views that can be freely configured in the forms of graphs and tables is especially helpful. Output or amounts of energy, costs and revenues as well as specific costs and revenues are displayed not only as graphs but also in the form of tables.

SOPTIM PMS provides comprehensive options to create evaluations, reports and statistics. For this, all master and transaction data can be used. Users configuring evaluations do not need any knowledge of programming or databases.

SOPTIM PMS has all the interfaces necessary to exchange data with other systems. Schedule and nomination data can be exchanged with transfer system operators and market areas. For the exchange of usage forecasts and pricing information in the context of transfer pricing models the distribution department is closely integrated. Data exchange is also possible with external optimization systems.

Based on forward and spot market prices SOPTIM PMS calculates hourly price forward curves for electricity and daily price forward curves for natural gas within a few minutes only.

In short: SOPTIM PMS comprehensively supports successful and low-risk procurement regardless of how turbulent the developments in the market are. More than 60 utility companies already rely on it.