How We Do It?
Welcome to the EGC Customer Portal — your AI-powered command center for tooling, inventory, and supply chain efficiency. Track savings, analyze spend, manage inventory, and stay ahead — all in one place.
Ready for Savings?
Our engineering and technology based platform for Integrated Supply of Cutting Tools, Abrasives , Chemicals , Gages and MRO Supplies help drive savings through your organization. We implement technical solutions to reduce spend, consolidate the supply base while reducing inventories.
Our Program Principles
Our programs are based upon the principle of Supplier Neutrality. We are not a distributor for any manufacturer and our focus is to implement the best product to drive cost Savings.
Supply Chain Strategy
Our Supply chain strategy is based on managed competition amongst suppliers who can support our customers globally. Supplier consolidation is an important part of this strategy. Fewer suppliers allow for targeting the best technology available to drive savings globally.
No Cost Resources
We provide technical and Supply chain management resources at no cost to help drive savings for our customers.
Customer Portal
As part of our solution we provide a web based application "Customer Portal" that provides real time data and information about Key Process Indicators to all customer stakeholders at no cost. This provides visibility to Cost Savings projects, Inventories, Spend analytics to help monitor program success
Technology – Suppliers Portal
We also provide a Supplier Portal to key suppliers . Suppliers use the portal to suggest savings projects, follow up on any open issues, have visibility to any non conformances and help us drive savings.
Program Resources
We provide all the resources needed to drive savings and make the program successful. From engineers, supply chain managers, buyers, warehouse managers and team members, tool pre-setters and all the software and systems needed to manage the program.
Customer Portal
Cost savings on Customer Portal
We also provide an iphone or android app for the customer portal, so that our customers have all the information at their fingertips at any time.
While landed costs of product often varies between countries, customers expect continuous improvement and benchmarking ideas to be shared and implemented within their global facilities.
We also provide an iphone or android app for the customer portal, so that our customers have all the information at their fingertips at any time.
This Portal provides real time information on Key Process Indicators such as:
- 75% of customers have sites that we manage in more than one country
- 50% of customers have sites that we manage in more than two countries.
We also provide an iphone or android app for the customer portal, so that our customers have all the information at their fingertips at any time.
This Portal provides real time information on Key Process Indicators such as:
- 75% of customers have sites that we manage in more than one country
- 50% of customers have sites that we manage in more than two countries.
While landed costs of product often varies between countries, customers expect continuous improvement and benchmarking ideas to be shared and implemented within their globalfacilities.
Cost Savings Tracker
We drive COST SAVINGS globally via engineering process improvements and spend reduction
While landed costs of product often varies between countries, customers expect continuous improvement and benchmarking ideas to be shared and implemented within their globalfacilities.
- 75% of customers have sites that we manage in more than one country
- 50% of customers have sites that we manage in more than two countries.
Our Program
Corporate reports
- Run specific reports
- Set - up auto reports to send, daily/weekly, etc
Customer Portal – Live data/24 - 7
- Export to Excel
- All Customer locations/by Site
- By Month
- All Customer locations/by Site
- Top 10 Suppliers
- Top 10 by Product
- Top 10 by Part Subcategory
- All Customer locations/by Site
- Top 10 Suppliers
- Top 10 by Product
- Top 10 by Part Subcategory
Technology – Supplier Portal
Our Program Principles
Supplier Neutrality
Since EWIE is not a distributor, we are supplier neutral and always pick the supplier that can provide the most savings to our customers.
Inventory Management
We utilize AI based inventory management algorithms that help reduce inventories across the enterprise. We manage over a millions SKUs of inventory for our customers across the globe.
Technical Expertise
We have over 350 engineers and an engineering SWAT team of experts who help our customers resolve technical issues and generate savings.
Managed Competition
Our program encourages our suppliers to compete for business. We have deep domain knowledge of the supply base and help them focus their expertise in areas of their technical strength to generate savings for our customers.
“Total Cost” Management
We analyze every cost driver from bottleneck operations to tool life to excess inventories and focus our efforts to drive down Total Cost for our customers
Focus on Quality
Quality is job 1. No changes are made without proper testing and approvals from our customers.
Supply Chain Strategy
PARTNERSHIPS
Technology partner not a channel partner
LEVERAGE
$350MM global spend in cutting tools & abrasives
BENCHMARK
Best tool for a given application
No Cost Resources
Based upon level of annual spend in Cutting tools, we provide no cost resources as outlined below. Customers have the option of adding more resources at cost as needed.
Program Manager
- Overall program management
- Delivering program metrics
- Providing leadership to EWIE personnel
- Staffing, mentoring and training EWIE personnel
- Customer and supplier relationship management
Program Engineer
- Develop and implement process improvement plans for metalworking products
- Administer, track and manage all tooling projects
- Work with suppliers and customer engineers on all tooling issues
- Problem resolution, standardization programs where applicable
- Evaluate existing products / processes for quality and savings
- Maintain tool control boards
Supply Chain Analyst
- Inventory management, procurement schedules,
- Manage supply chain issues for all metalworking products
- Cut and manage purchase orders transactions
- Set up new items
- Evaluate existing procurement processes for cost savings
Program Resources: Vending Machines
INTEGRATION WITH ERP
Vending systems fully integrated with ERP and transparent online via customer portal
SPEND REDUCTION
Spend Reduction–stop waste and abuse by placing limits on quantities, shifts, jobs, or total dollar value spent.
RECONDITIONED ITEMS
Machines can automatically dispense reconditioned items before new ones.
ELIMINATE STOCK - OUTS
Eliminate Stock-outs–real-time inventory count is available, with min/max levels that trigger replenishment
REDUCE OBSOLETE INVENTORY
Reduce obsolete inventory–machines can dispense older supplies before newerand track turn rates
Our “Total Cost Reduction and Savings programs” are based on following principles.