摘要:
A Global Supply Chain Intelligence system (“GSCI”) adapted to predict, discover and verify commodity trade flows. Creating and maintaining a dataset that tracks real and near real-time commodity flows as they happen as an input to the GSCI. The dataset used in a business intelligence process within the GSCI to arrive at an output, such as a predicted price behavior, a price alert, a risk alert, etc. A Commodity Flow Intelligence (CFI) component that collects and analyzes information with the timeliness, detail and accuracy required to track, forecast and predict supply and demand imbalances at the discrete flow level to aid market participants in making operational trading and investment decisions, for example, in connection with a financial services system or offering providing enhanced data and tools to promote market transparency.