Aggregation has been the mantra for cost reduction since time immemorial only to be lip service until a new boom comes when all is forgotten. Attempts at Commodity purchases centrally are at best successful to being limited in nature, owing to lack of interest beyond commodities. This is again restricted to a company while actually a group can aggregate beyond the organization walls in driving such benefits.

Indiaengineering as third party was able to prove the benefits with aggregation spanning across categories like Furnace Oil, Transportation, Refractories etc working with a group or a industry at times.