Trading commodities requires quick judgement to react to opportunities and market fluctuations. For every new purchase or sale, the traders first need to consider the impact of the transaction on their current position and margin. When this consideration is made in the heads of your traders, without ERP support, this adds yet another risk to the already risky commodity business.

To support traders even better in their decision-making process, Adifo developed “what-if scenarios”. The use of these contracts helps traders to quickly register the possible purchase or sale as a what-if contract and lets MILAS AX do the work by calculating the updated position and the effect on the trade margin. Just like normal contracts, what-if contracts can have many different dimensions (dates, volume, price, cost, etc.). Your traders can then easily check the what-if effect on the average prices, benchmark them with market values and see the influence on their overall position.

What-if contracts in Dynamics AX, how does it work?

What-if contracts are separated from regular purchase and sales contracts. This makes it possible to switch between your actual position and the "what-if position" at the click of a button.

This not only makes the MILAS AX position monitor your traders’ favourite tool to monitor their current position, they will also benefit from the calculated impact of these what-if scenarios. In a job where precision and speed needs to be combined, the position monitor definitely brings a lot of added value to a difficult decision-making process.