Most savings get found. Few get banked in the P&L.
Banking savings depends on who has to move, whose credibility is on the line and where the supplier still gives. That’s the part we do, or we teach your team to.
Three of eight bids would have raised total cost. The right awards saved 15%.
The track record
Mid-market and PE-backed businesses, roughly AU$50M to AU$800M in revenue, with material spend and no appetite for big-firm fees or extra headcount.
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Hold periods are stretching and capital costs more. The operating partners getting ahead of it walk into IC with the number in hand and the portco politics already worked through, so it holds up under questioning.
What you getStaggered 12-week Sprints. One playbook, no per-portco recruiting, savings compounding into the exit thesis.
Running a portfolio? A free 30-minute call with Ashokk to see where the savings are across your companies.
Tell us about your situationBoards don’t just want the number, they want to know it will survive their own questions. That’s what CFOs are bringing now: a number with the sign-off and the credibility already built in.
What you getRoughly $1.3M lands in-year if started in Q2. Every step signed off by your own finance team. Savings counted only once they’re documented against the P&L.
Need a number your board will trust? A free 30-minute call with Ashokk to see how big it is and how soon it reaches the P&L.
Tell us about your situationGrowth costs more to fund from the top than it used to. Founders getting ahead of it are funding the next twelve months of growth from their own supply base.
What you getBased on $15M addressed spend at 13.5% savings, net of TPP fees. Multiples vary by sector and deal. Structural savings recur; the uplift pays twice, in-year and at the sale.
Want to fund growth from what you already spend? A free 30-minute call with Ashokk to see what’s there.
Tell us about your situationYou’re asked to prove strategic value faster, with a team that hasn’t grown to match it. The heads of procurement getting credit are the ones who show up with the answer already in hand.
What you getTPP embedded with your team, under your banner. Someone in your corner for the fights you’ve been having alone.
Need help, with the credit staying with your team? A free 30-minute call with Ashokk about the gap you need filled.
Tell us about your situationWe’re growing, but costs, suppliers and working capital are getting harder to manage. Finance pays the invoices, operations runs the suppliers, each site negotiates on its own, and nobody owns what we buy.
What you getMost businesses at this stage don’t need a procurement department. They need procurement judgement when the big commercial decisions are made.
Real spend, no procurement team? A free 30-minute call with Ashokk to see where the money goes.
Tell us about your situationThe situations that keep coming back across 130+ engagements.
The EBITDA bridge doesn’t close on revenue alone. Cost is running hotter than pricing can pass through.
What’s usually behind it. Cost-out has never had an owner. It gets delegated down with no mandate, no data and no air cover to land it. The value is sitting there. Nobody has been told to go and get it.
The savings hit the board pack. They never hit the P&L.
What’s usually behind it. Counted at signature, before it’s ever in the bank. No baseline anyone signed off, no line of sight to the ledger, and finance was never in the room. It just never lands.
You own the number. Nobody gave you the team, the data or the mandate to hit it.
What’s usually behind it. That gap between target and resourcing is where good procurement leaders get stuck. It’s a capacity and cover problem, and it closes without a headcount fight.
Deal’s closed, or exit’s close. Nobody’s diligenced procurement. Nobody knows what’s in the spend base.
What’s usually behind it. No spend cube, no contract register, no documented savings trail. The value is probably real. It has just never been quantified or put in the deck.
Carve-out, spin-off, demerger. The contracts were the parent’s. Nobody here has run a standalone supply base.
What’s usually behind it. Separation exposes everything the parent was absorbing: group-volume pricing, shared services that vanish, contracts needing novation before the TSA clock runs out. Specialist work, on a deadline that doesn’t move.
The board’s signed off on growth. Nobody’s found the funding for it.
What’s usually behind it. Cost-out usually gets filed as a margin exercise. It’s actually the cheapest capital on the table: every dollar released from the supply base is a dollar you don’t raise, borrow or defer a plan for. And the same suppliers often hold the capacity and capability the growth plan needs.
Crisis-era price increases are still sitting in the contract. The market’s moved on. The pricing hasn’t.
What’s usually behind it. Nobody went back to reset the baseline. The increase became the new normal by default. It doesn’t have to be. It just takes someone with the standing to reopen the conversation.
Locked-in contracts. A tight supply market. No time to find the way out.
What’s usually behind it. There’s usually more give in the contract than it admits: exit clauses, benchmarking rights, volume levers, market timing. Finding it is specialist work, faster with someone who has sat on the supplier’s side of that table too.
Already tried. Brought someone in, ran the project. Six months on, the numbers still aren’t there.
What’s usually behind it. Seniority doesn’t bank value on its own. Without a method to find it fast, the work drifts. Without a standard to count it, finance doesn’t trust the number. The model was never the problem. The missing method was.
New CFO, CEO or CPO. They can see procurement is broken. Year one is not the time to spend political capital fixing it.
What’s usually behind it. What they need is someone else to do the heavy lifting: arrive with credibility, move fast, hand back a result they can put their name on.
The business routes around procurement. Deals get done before the contract’s seen. Nobody owns the hard supplier conversation.
What’s usually behind it. Stakeholders bypass a function they’ve never had a reason to use, and the politics stall everything else. Policy won’t fix that. One fast, visible win on something they care about will. An outsider with no internal agenda can take the heat while it happens.
Recognise one of these? A free 30-minute call with Ashokk to talk it through.
Tell us about your situationEverything we sell is a productised block: a stated outcome, a timeline and a fixed price. Fractional too: blocks, not days. AI is built into every one, so analysis takes hours, not weeks, and senior time goes on judgement and the deal. For private equity, we work through the whole deal: buy, hold and sell phases. Pay a fixed fee or for performance: How we get paidEverything we sell is a block, fractional work included. Each has a stated outcome, a timeline and a price agreed up front. AI does the analysis in hours, so senior time goes on judgement and the deal. Pay a fixed fee, pay for performance, or have us fund the work. How we get paid ↓
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Four steps. Start with one small piece of work. Do more only if it’s working. This includes businesses owned by private equity.
Help when a private equity firm buys, owns or sells a business.Three stages: buy, hold and sell. We work the procurement side of each, from first look until the value shows in the P&L.
Building your own team’s capability, through Procurement Superheroes.
Start with one block, from 24 hours: a spend cube, supplier or contract insights, sourcing documents, a board paper. No contract, yours to keep.Start with one block, from 24 hours: a spend cube, supplier or contract insights, sourcing documents, a board paper, a policy and governance build, or a compliance review. No contract, yours to keep.
Three months, one or two categories, one outcome: a costed sourcing pipeline your CFO signs off, with a category ready to go to market.
Across the spend in scope: opportunities identified, sized and prioritised into a Value Plan of where to start, in 2 to 12 weeks.
Strategic sourcing and bespoke optimisations, tailored to your situation and your supplier relationships. One category or several, from strategy to signed contract. Fixed fee, or pay for performance with part of the fee at risk.
Fractional, productised: a small expert team working through blocks each month, running the pipeline, covering a gap or doing the analysis. Starts within 24 hours, 7 days’ notice to stop.
CPO-level leadership owned by Ashokk, with a team that flexes each month: category experts, analysts, negotiators. No permanent hire, no fixed team.
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Deals are where procurement value is easiest to lose: missed in diligence, promised in the synergy case, then never delivered after close. We work the procurement side of the deal from first look until the value shows in the P&L, and it’s the work Ashokk enjoys most.Deals are where procurement value gets lost. It’s missed in diligence, promised in the synergy case, then never delivered after close. We work the procurement side from first look until the value shows in the P&L. It’s the work Ashokk enjoys most.Ashokk is execution-focused, a skill honed across industries, especially manufacturing, FMCG and packaging, where margins are typically razor thin. This is the work Ashokk enjoys.Ashokk learned the job where a cent a unit decides the year: manufacturing, FMCG and packaging. PE is where he most likes to work. In a portfolio company, procurement is an under-tapped source of EBITDA, and every recurring dollar it banks is worth a multiple at exit.
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TPP does the work. When you want your own team doing it next time, Procurement Superheroes builds them, on your live work rather than in a classroom. Same founder, same method.
TPP does the work. Procurement Superheroes builds your own team to do it next time, on live work. Same founder, same method.
Procurement Superheroes trains your team on live work, so next time they do it themselves. Same founder, same method.
Most firms look to procurement for spend, category strategy and cost-out. We also look for revenue.We also support new product development and opportunities to drive revenue.
The same suppliers and the same data that take cost out can open a channel, lift margin or win a listing. We run both on the same pass.
How to buy itAs Execution Pods or a Fractional CPO, run alongside the cost work.
Interims and contractors bill for the days. Firms bill for the recommendations. If the savings don’t land, you’ve paid anyway. Here, you choose how much of the risk we carry.
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A fixed price for a defined outcome: by project, month or milestone, or as prepaid blocks you draw down.
Works with everything above: Procurement Blocks, Pilot, EBIT Leakage Scan, Cost-out Sprint, Execution Pods and Fractional CPO.
Part of the fee tied to results your finance team signs off, on its own or alongside a fixed fee.
Works with a Cost-out Sprint, once a Leakage Scan or a Procurement Block has sized the opportunity.
Spread the cost through third-party financing, or, for the right engagement, we fund the work up front and share the returns.
Works with the right engagement, agreed case by case in writing.
Extra weeks are scheduled at our discretion. Nothing counts until your finance team signs it off. Full terms are shared before you commit.
Request the price listSavings in year one, delivered to the P&L and signed off by finance.
A $1B-spend manufacturer built by acquisition, with no sourcing or category management across five business units.
He has done an amazing job, making sense of what was deemed messy and un-addressable. We have been trying to do this for years.
Ashokk is an invaluable asset, a highly skilled procurement professional who brings a strategic, results-driven approach to the table. The quality of his work is easily comparable to top tier consulting quality, backed by years of execution experience in industry.
Through this exercise, he not only identified and managed our supply risks, but also drove significant cost benefits and trained my team so that we were successfully able to manage future projects internally.
Ashokk is an invaluable asset, a highly skilled procurement professional who brings a strategic, results-driven approach to the table. The quality of his work is easily comparable to top tier consulting quality, backed by years of execution experience in industry.
Through this exercise, he not only identified and managed our supply risks, but also drove significant cost benefits and trained my team so that we were successfully able to manage future projects internally.
And category agnostic: Ashokk advises and supports most procurement categories.
Having sat in the buyer’s, the supplier’s and the advisor’s seat, Ashokk knows what each side needs before it says yes, and where a deal still has room to move.
15+ sectors, deepest in PE-backed businesses, FMCG and food & beverage, packaging, QSR, IVF and life sciences, healthcare and dental, and retail.
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