Portfolio Management
Our portfolio management service is responsible for managing mid- and long-term gas procurement. With our strategic approach, ongoing planning and forecasting, tactical currency hedging and market presence, we are able to operate on minimal costs to ensure optimal purchase prices.
This essentially means that purchase prices are controlled, making a far-reaching, professional, agile approach worthwhile. Cost-optimised gas procurement can be broken down into the steps of development, maintenance and implementation of strategy, calculation of capacity planning, ongoing revision of long-range forecasts and market trades. Depending on the territory and customer requirements, it may also involve the procurement of foreign currency.
Our comprehensive modern portfolio management services allow you to make the most of all of our skills, resources, systems and market access, ensuring there is the ideal solution to every need.
Portfolio management classic
With OpenEP PM.classic we support energy supply companies with their gas procurement and offer a cost-effective package of the functions that each customer requires. Our specialists remain in close communication with the customer’s sales force.
Portfolio management web
We also offer OpenEP PM.online, which lets our customers manage their own portfolios. This increases customer autonomy, saves costs and ensures transparency.
Portfolio management virtual
Virtual portfolio management is based on OpenEP PM.classic, using the same resources and systems. As a customer you can simulate structured procurement under real-life conditions, gain experience and compare prices. Once you’re comfortable with the systems you can transfer to OpenEP PM.classic or OpenEP PM.online – and actual procurement – at any time.
OpenEP Marketplace
OpenEP marketplace is the solution for energy supply companies, offering direct, cost-effective market access, price security, as well as a high degree of flexibility which allows you to trigger or place orders directly. With access to all products and various data sources, you benefit from the best possible purchase prices, and OpenEP’s market maker role.
Balance Group Management
Balance group management is our method for optimising short-term, physical gas supplies. This encompasses such functions as short-term forecast management, nomination and/or schedule management, spot market management, flexible contracts, storage and much more. All of this is guided by the objective of ensuring daily – and where possible hourly – management, and minimising costs.
OpenEP offers the experience, innovation and resources you need to turn your balance group management into a professional, reliable, round-the-clock operation. We operate our own balance groups in all Swiss territories.
Weekly Report
OpenEP follows all relevant markets associated with gas trading on a range of exchanges and trading hubs. With our weekly report, customers receive insights into price indicators, market activities, developments and opinion. Our specialists comment on the previous week, analyse price developments and forecast the week to come. Our customers value this weekly report as a service they can offer their own customers – which is precisely the purpose of our «white label» solution.
Reporting
Find out what’s happening with gas procurement wherever you are, at any time – that is the overall aim of our reporting service. Our state-of-the-art digitalised systems and a high degree of individual flexibility mean we can take a tailored approach to the requirements of procurement professionals, managers and all our other customers.
Risk Management
Every modern energy supply company is responsible for the ongoing identification and financial evaluation of risk positions in their energy trading. We raise our customers’ awareness of risk issues, calculate and visualise risk positions, and provide training in managing their own risk assessment.
We do this using our sophisticated IT systems as well as the skills we apply in our own consistent risk management.
Sales Support
We also make our expertise available to our customers’ customers, in the form of background discussions or presentations, for example. Our services in this area include price development curves, systems for price calculation, our weekly report as a «white label» solution, assistance in generating quotes or the development of your own in-house procurement strategy.
Transport Management
We carry out transport management functions on both a domestic and international level for our gas procurement customers.
Consultancy
We advise our customers in all our areas of expertise – including energy management issues, risk management or overall developments in the gas market – from company, procurement or sales perspectives. Our aim is to make sure our customers can make the most of our knowledge.