Client stories
Evidence from assessments, briefings, and procurement reviews — written by people who used them.
The copper brief arrived three days before our quarterly hedge window. The inventory read was sharper than our internal note — though I would have liked a longer look at Chinese scrap flows. We still used the decision summary in the board pack.
Helena M. · metals procurement, Midlands manufacturer
We commission the softs outlook before each roasting season. It does not replace our blender’s judgement; it gives the buying team a shared language for when to hold and when to cover. The half-day ran long because everyone had questions, which was fine.
James K. · coffee buying lead, specialty importer
Our gasoil procurement review showed we had been covering too early against the crack. The memo was short enough for finance to read without a translator. Next time I would send cleaner invoice extracts up front.
Priya S. · energy buyer, logistics group
The wheat assessment helped us decide against a large flat-price cover in a week when basis was the real story. One mild reservation: the freight section assumed a route we rarely use. We flagged it on the call and they adjusted the final issue.
Tom R. · grain merchant, East Anglia
Extended story: aluminium cover for a fabricator
A West Midlands fabricator faced a six-week spike in European aluminium premiums while LME prices looked tired. Their treasury team wanted a firmer-or-softer view before locking a large physical purchase.
Endpoint Routecore scoped a commodity price trend assessment on primary aluminium with emphasis on warehouse cancellations, regional premiums, and the fabricator’s delivery window. The brief argued for a range-bound LME path with a risk of firmer premiums — and recommended separating the flat-price hedge discussion from the premium negotiation.
The client covered part of the tonnage earlier than planned on premium, waited on flat price, and later said the split framing avoided a single “buy everything now” debate that had stalled previous quarters.
Extended story: seasonal cocoa briefing
A confectionery group booked a sector outlook briefing ahead of its autumn recipe freeze. Eight people from buying, finance, and product attended by video. The session walked through West African arrivals, grind data, and curve steepness, then left the room with three agreed watchpoints for the following month.
No one treated the briefing as a trading instruction. Several attendees noted that having finance in the room reduced later re-litigation of the same charts.