Eazy Gleam manufactures products that require consistent quality, cost-competitive raw materials
Eazy Gleam is an Australian-owned manufacturer of car detailing and cleaning products, operating since 1988 and based in Brisbane.
The business owner (and formulator) Skye manages procurement alongside other business responsibilities, like sales, marketing and R&D.
For chemical manufacturers like Eazy Gleam, ensuring raw materials are approved before purchase is crucial due to the sensitive nature of formulations, and requesting quotes from multiple suppliers is essential to keep costs under control.
Procurement process was labour intensive, over email and telephone
The procurement process involved identifying the approved supplier for a relevant raw material, then emailing or calling the account manager for quotes and availability.
"Prior to using ChemCloud, procurement was very labour intensive. There was lots of emailing, and phone calls back and forth from suppliers."
Skye Rowan, Eazy Gleam
This manual approach was time-consuming. Due to the requirement to only purchase approved materials, it was difficult to delegate procurement responsibilities to team members who weren’t intimately involved in the approval process.
ChemCloud's AI-Powered Procurement Platform
Eazy Gleam started using ChemCloud in order to streamline this process and consolidate procurement activities in one place. There were two features in particular which helped make a difference.
A single place to manage procurement with a team
The business moved from scattered email communications to a centralised system where all procurement activities could be managed and tracked.
Automated RFQs to Approved Suppliers
The platform's structure allowed production team members to handle procurement tasks whilst ensuring they purchase only from approved suppliers.
"ChemCloud has streamlined everything and made it much easier to have everything in one place, which has freed me up to focus on other areas of my business."
Skye Rowan, Eazy Gleam
From Manual to Streamlined
This streamlining of procurement achieved impressive results,
- 120+ approvals stored in one place, accessible by the whole team
- 250+ automated RFQs to approved suppliers per year
- 4-6 hours saved per month freeing up resources for strategic initiatives.
What began as a solution to reduce manual procurement work has become Eazy Gleam's primary platform for managing supplier relationships and enabling effective delegation across the team.
