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AI Advisor Reports

Analysis only earns its keep when it changes a decision, and that almost always means getting it in front of someone else — a CFO, a category director, a committee that meets on Thursday. How do you brief them on the cost or market outlook, in the language they read, without spending a day rebuilding the analysis by hand? The Advisor is the answer to that specific problem. It packages what the platform already knows about a commodity — the forecast, the risk measures, the market regime, the correlations and the news sentiment — into a polished PDF written to be read in five minutes.

One thing to settle before you build a routine around it: the Advisor is a capability that has to be switched on for your organisation rather than something every subscription starts with. If it is not enabled for you, your account manager can arrange it — worth a two-minute conversation before you promise a stakeholder a weekly briefing.

Three report types, one per role

The tab you choose sets the report type, and the type is what changes the emphasis: the same underlying evidence, argued for a different reader. That is the point of the split — a cost briefing that opens with budget exposure is a different document from a market brief that opens with positioning, even when both are describing the same week in the same commodity.

Six languages for multi-country teams

Reports are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, and Dutch. For a team spread across several countries this is the difference between one briefing and six ad-hoc translations: a stakeholder in Prague and a stakeholder in Madrid read the same analysis, in their own language, and arrive at the meeting arguing about the decision rather than about what the document meant.

Generating and downloading reports

1. Pick the tab that matches your role — General for an all-round briefing, Procurement if you buy, Trading if you take positions. Everything below the tab is the same catalogue of commodities — only the report type changes.
2. Find your commodity — The table is grouped by category, so drop to the category you buy or trade and read across the row.
3. Download the PDF in your language — Each row carries a download link per language. Send the version your stakeholders read — the analysis underneath is the same in all six.
4. Generate anything that is missing — If a report has not been built yet, use the per-commodity Generate button, or Generate All to produce the whole set for the active report type. A status badge tracks it: Generating while it runs, Ready when the PDF is there, and Failed if something went wrong — a failed report can simply be generated again.

Briefing management: the last step of the weekly review

For procurement users this is step 7 of the weekly cost review, and it is deliberately last. Download the latest Executive Cost Briefing, or generate one on demand so that it captures the forecast as it stands today, then attach it to your weekly summary or take it into the budget meeting. It is how the six steps before it reach the people who approve the spend: the outlook, the worst case and the recommended actions, already written up in something a busy reader will finish.

Reports for private data feeds are handled differently: they live on a separate, restricted surface and require explicit entitlement. If your organisation works with one of those datasets and its reports are not visible to you, your account manager can arrange it.