Course Listing

Introduction to SolArc RightAngle (½ to 1 Day)
This class provides an overview of application functionality, data flow, integration of functional domains, and an overview of basic functionality from Deal to Invoice.  This course is recommended for all users.  The duration of this class can vary, depending upon the depth of knowledge needed by the trainees, but generally speaking, it takes an entire day for project team training and about a half-day for end user training. 

Trading Deals (½ Day)
This class provides an understanding of trading deal capture in RightAngle, including physical trades, derivative trades, in-house deals, and what-if deals.  The course covers deal structure, deal entry, basic pricing provisions, and how the data captured on trading deals affects downstream activities.  This course is recommended for most operational users, but it is designed specifically for those personnel who need to enter or understand trading deals in RightAngle, including the downstream implications of the data.

Logistics Deals (½ Day)
Provides an understanding of RightAngle logistics deals, including storage, transportation, processing, and blending deals.  It covers logistics deal entry, pricing provisions, and other advanced logistics deal-capture functionality.  This course is recommended for people responsible for setting up and managing logistics deals, typically schedulers or traders.

Scheduling Overview (½ Day)
This class provides an understanding of the basic Scheduling functionality in RightAngle, including the Scheduling Module and an overview of workbenches and tools, terminology, concepts, and flow of data in RightAngle.  Topics include managing Transfers and the basics of planning and actualizing product movements.  This course is recommended for schedulers, support personnel, and anyone in need of understanding RightAngle scheduling functionality.

Scheduling Workbench (½ Day)
This class provides a deeper understanding and greater hands-on experience in the Scheduling Workbench.  Trainees will learn to manage Transfers on the Workbench and many different ways to match Transfers to create Orders and actualize Orders using Movement Documents.  This course is recommended for schedulers, support personnel, and anyone in need of understanding RightAngle scheduling functionality, especially those that will schedule and actualize movements.

Scheduling Voyage Viewer (½ Day)
This class provides a deeper understanding and greater hands-on experience in the Voyage Viewer.  Trainees will learn to create and manage Voyages in the Voyage Viewer, including creating and using Barge & Vessel Deals (both Spot and Term Charter), attaching Transfers at origin and destination ports, adjusting voyages, actualizing (bills of lading & discharge documents), and completing voyages.  This course is recommended for barge and vessel schedulers, support personnel, and anyone in need of understanding RightAngle voyage functionality.

Pricing & Valuation (½ to 1 Day)
This class provides an understanding of how to define and maintain price services, price curves, prices, pricing provisions, and other data critical to the valuation function.  It familiarizes the participant with the valuation process and introduces methods and tools used to investigate / troubleshoot resulting transactional values.  This course is recommended for pricing analysts, risk analysts, project team members, support, and any personnel involved in transaction troubleshooting.

Accounting (1 Day)
This class provides an understanding of basic RightAngle accounting functionality.  It includes understanding the methods RightAngle uses to assign Transaction Types & Groups, create and value Accounting Transactions, and perform other tasks (e.g., Account Coding, etc.).  Also, understanding how to create receivable invoices, match payable invoices, and reconcile inventory volumes.  This course is recommended for accountants, troubleshooting support, and anyone in need of an understanding of RightAngle's accounting functionality.

Reporting (½ to 1 Day)
This class provides an understanding of RightAngle's robust reporting tools that allow you to retrieve information and customize its presentation.  This is a non-technical, end-user class in which participants learn to create personalized report "views" on-the-fly and then save those "views" for later use.  This course is recommended for most users, but especially anyone expecting to use reports on a daily basis.

Reference Data (1 Day)
This class provides an understanding of the fundamental data that is required for SolArc RightAngle to function and the complexities of how it is integrated.  The class provides definitions and examples of the data, restrictions that may apply, and the steps required to create & maintain it.  This course is recommended for project team members, IT support, and power users.

Risk Setup (½ Day)
Prerequisites:  Trading Deals and Pricing/Valuation
This class provides an understanding of the setup required by Risk Center functionality.  It covers the creation of Strategies, Portfolios, Position Groups, and Forward & Market Price Curves.  It also elaborates on the processes used to generate data for the Risk Center reports.  This course is recommended for Risk Analysts and persons responsible for setting up and maintaining Risk Center in RightAngle.

Note: This class does not cover usage or in-depth understanding of risk reports.