Know your position before you enter the room.
Commercial intelligence and supplier development
Negotiation support and supplier development for high-value supplier relationships. We work alongside your team, and results are measured against a baseline agreed before work starts.
Three minutes. No upload and no contact details required.
What is the increase costing you?
Advanced: payment terms, tariffs, sourcing
Tariff rates change often. Enter your own scenario rather than a current rate.
Simple arithmetic on your own numbers. It is not a savings estimate. It is not legal or financial advice.
Why you are here
What brought you to us?
A supplier sent us a price increase.
See what it costs, what the contract allows and how to respond before the notice window closes.
Check this increase →A contract is up for renewal.
Get the dates, price terms and evidence in order before you sit down with the supplier.
Prepare the renewal →We rely on one supplier.
Find out how exposed you are and what a qualified second source would take.
Test your options →Costs moved, but our prices did not.
Check whether quotes, escalation terms and cost assumptions still match. The calculator also takes a tariff scenario.
Check your margin →Could this part cost less somewhere else?
Find out if it can be made to specification elsewhere, and at what cost, before you commit capital.
Assess a part →We want to cut cost and do not know where to start.
Build the visibility, the baseline and the ownership that help results hold.
Start the review →None of these, or want to talk it through?
Tell us what is on your desk. The first call is a feasibility question, not a pitch.
What you get
Three results, each with a clear deliverable.
A decision on the price increase
You respond to the supplier with evidence, before the notice window closes.
Deliverable Response options with trade-offs and a named owner.
A better supplier, proven
Where a part may be made to specification elsewhere, we test it with a real first article, not a report.
Deliverable Qualified supplier, validated part, cost data.
Margin review
Quotes, escalation terms and cost assumptions that still match your input costs.
Deliverable Margin review with triggers and owners.
The total package
One team, from the first benchmark to the handover.
Start at any stage and take only what you need. Advice is priced separately from execution, and handover terms are set out in your agreement. We use AI to prepare evidence and track dates faster, and a person makes every decision.
- BenchmarkKnow the marketWhat the market and economics actually support.
Delivered byEcoMargins
You receiveMarket and cost benchmark, with gaps in the evidence marked.
- StrategizeBuild leverageAlternatives assessed, strategy built.
Delivered byEcoMargins, with the India and North America sourcing teams
You receiveLeverage plan and a shortlist of alternative suppliers.
- NegotiatePrepare the negotiationWe work alongside your team. Your people decide.
Delivered byEcoMargins, with your team
You receiveNegotiation plan, evidence pack and draft responses for your approval.
- ExtendProve the alternativeQualify suppliers against your drawings and build a first article.
Delivered byIndia engineering and sourcing team, and the North America network
You receiveQualified supplier, validated first article and cost data, handed over at supplier prices.
- LearnKeep the valueCapture what worked for the next negotiation.
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You receiveResults recorded against the baseline and a playbook for next time.
We agree the baseline first, then report realized results against it: opportunities validated, actions completed and outcomes recorded.
Team experience
Expertise across procurement, engineering and operations.
EcoMargins brings together expertise across industrial procurement, supply-chain strategy, engineering, and manufacturing operations.
Expertise
Experience spans
Regional experience
North America
Procurement, sourcing and supplier experience.
Europe
Regional market and supply-chain experience.
India
Engineering, supplier development and manufacturing.
Additional international sourcing
Further regions brought in as a project requires.
We assemble the right expertise around each project, helping industrial teams assess opportunities, improve how decisions are made, and move from analysis to practical action.
Akbar Khowaja, Founder and Principal
Global procurement and sourcing for heavy manufacturing, with metals as the prime material. Engineering and sourcing teams in India and North America deliver the work. LinkedIn profile