Gas Transaction Management (GTM)
As a gas market participant, you face increasing pressure to make better decisions, deliver more value, and provide true transparency in light of concerns about security of gas supplies, climate change and environmental impacts, and evolving global gas trade. SunGard’s Gas Transaction Management (GTM) solution can help you to drive efficiencies in your organization’s gas operations by managing cross-pipeline contracts, scheduling, nominations, balancing, allocation, and actualization activities in a single platform. GTM streamlines gas operations by automating workflows, aggregating data, and integrating physical risk and accounting systems.
Features
- Presents a consolidated view of cross-market positions and balances
- Provides contract management, actualization and balancing, inventory tracking, capacity analysis, imbalance management ,and settlement and invoicing in one system
- Validates volumetric constraints on long-term swing contracts, transport positions and storage capacities
- Includes hourly nominations, scheduling, allocations and automatic imbalance tracking
- Offers price and quantity formula capabilities that allow tracking of complex long physical gas deals and contracts
Benefits
- Automatically creates and balances complex nominations as deals are executed
- Offers managers a detailed picture of cross-pipeline movements via drill down capabilities
- Eliminates the need for reconciliation and duplicate data entry
- Facilitates decision-making with a consolidated view of cross-market positions
- Assists with the assessment of long-term contract performance and penalty avoidance
- Helps eliminate batch processing of price calculations and settlement transactions