We do it, or we teach yours to.
Most mid-market and PE-backed companies know procurement is leaking value. The usual fixes are slow, expensive, or already stretched: a six-month search for a senior hire, a big-firm engagement, or pushing it onto finance.
TPP is the alternative. Embedded procurement leadership and hands-on execution, on demand, accountable to results. Human-first and AI-accelerated: senior operators make the judgement calls, and AI-assisted analytics compress the analysis from months to days. We work with the team and budget you already have. We own the outcomes.
No consulting theatre. No pyramids. No billable hours while you wait.
Plus engagements delivered through top-tier strategy firms. Both sides of the table →
These aren't procurement problems. They're business problems that procurement is either causing or could fix, if someone moves fast enough and knows what they're doing.
Cost-out hasn't been treated as a serious lever. Delegated down. Underpowered. The opportunity is sitting there. It just hasn't been captured.
The cost base hasn't been actively managed. Procurement is buying at market rate instead of ahead of it. No strategy. No leverage. No plan.
No spend visibility. No contract register. No documented savings. The value is probably there. It just hasn't been found or put on the P&L.
Nobody went back to reset the baseline. The increases are baked in. Treated as the new normal. They are not. But it takes someone willing to have the conversation.
Time and seniority alone don't solve it. Without a methodology that finds and banks value quickly, engagements drift. The spend data still isn't trusted.
They need someone to do the heavy lifting. Arrive with credibility. Move fast. Hand back results the new leader can put their name on.
Internal politics slow everything down. An external party with no agenda and full commercial accountability takes the heat. Then gets the deal done.
No capacity. No senior cover. No tools to compress the timeline. Business as usual consumes everything. The strategic work never starts.
Stakeholders route around functions they don't rate, and engagement isn't won by policy. It's won by being useful on something they care about, fast. One visible win changes how the business treats procurement. Then the door stays open.
Constraints usually have more give than they appear to. Exit clauses, benchmarking rights, volume levers, market timing. Finding the give is specialist work, and it's faster with someone who has unpicked a hundred of these before yours.
If any of these sound like your business, the first conversation is free.
Tell us about your situation →TPP plugs in as a fractional CPO and execution arm, not a slide-ware consulting team. Cost out, control in, capability built, and the top-line contribution your supply base is already capable of. We focus on the work that moves numbers, not the work that fills slide decks.
We don't identify savings and leave. We run the process end to end, from sourcing event to signed contract to documented saving.
Controls that actually work in mid-market environments, not big-firm frameworks nobody follows. Practical, fast to implement, and built for your team.
Your team builds capability by doing the work with us, on real problems, with real stakes. We coach in the moment, not in a classroom. By the time we step back, they've already done it.
Procurement gets briefed as a cost function, so nobody asks the supply base what it could do for the top line. Your suppliers already hold formats, formulations, technology and lead times that could open a channel or lift margin. We go looking for it deliberately, on the same pass as the cost work.
A peel-and-reseal pack format for a global confectionery brand. Ashokk built the original business case, and the lens was cost: packaging came down 25%. What the analysis also surfaced was a format the old pack couldn't offer the shopper, portion control and a bar that stays fresh once opened. The top-line value had been sitting inside a cost exercise the whole time. Most firms bank the 25% and move on. We go looking for both.
Not advice from the sidelines. We own the delivery, the documentation, and the result.
See how we work →One consistent standard of delivery. Start anywhere. Scale as needed. Savings are counted when they're contracted, implemented and documented against the P&L. Not when they're in a pipeline.
A quick scan to find where money is leaking and what's fixable fast. Spend visibility and supplier insight in days, not months. AI-accelerated spend analysis is why days is possible; an operator's read on the output is why it's worth having. No commitment beyond the audit.
We work with the data you have, not the data that would be ideal. Enough clarity to know where the value sits is enough to move.
Fix governance, run sourcing events, convert savings to EBIT. One category, one outcome, one proof point for the board.
The final number is real, verifiable and board-ready. Savings documented and signed off by finance, after TPP fees.
Most fractional services give you a senior person for a few days a month. You get their time. What you do with it is up to you.
This is different. We own the outcomes, not just the hours. Embedded leadership that runs procurement, builds your team's capability, and makes sure savings compound. Hands on and on the tools, not a calendar booking that shows up and advises.
And it stays productised inside the engagement. Fixed-scope audits and sprints, each with a stated outcome and a stated price, deployed within 24 hours of spotting the value. You always know what you're buying, what it costs, and what it returned. No open-ended retainer drift.
Start with an Audit if you don't know where the value sits. Start with a Sprint if you do.
Fractional is for when you want embedded procurement leadership without the hire, whether that's your first conversation with us or your fifth.
Mid-market and PE-backed businesses, roughly AU$50M to AU$800M, where there's material spend and leakage but limited appetite for big-firm fees, long projects or extra headcount.
Staggered 12-week sprints. One playbook, no per-portco recruiting, savings compounding into the exit thesis.
12% saved on addressed spend, documented to the P&L and signed off by finance. Detail available in conversation, under NDA where required.
Roughly $1.35M lands in-year if started in Q2. Every step signed off by your finance team, not ours. Savings counted when documented against the P&L, not when they're in a pipeline.
Based 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.
TPP embedded with your team, under your banner. Someone in your corner for the fights you've been having alone.
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 and is 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.
Supported in implementing strategic sourcing for the business unit. The knowledge and grasp of the techniques deployed helped the company gain huge savings.GM Procurement · Global FMCG
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.GM Procurement · ASX 200
We have seen a big improvement in the way my category manager has progressed. Part of that has been the starting point where you coached him and gave him the courage to challenge suppliers and stakeholders.GM Procurement · Public Sector
Procurement problems don't change much across sectors. The suppliers, the politics, and the contracts all rhyme. What changes is the context. We bring both: deep procurement expertise and enough sector fluency to hit the ground running.
Sector fluency matters. Procurement accountability matters more.
Tell us about your situation →
TPP is led and delivered by Ashokk N Menon: 25+ years across industry leadership, including regional procurement leadership for APAC at a global FMCG business, and top-tier consulting. 130+ projects. $20B+ of spend addressed. $1.5B documented.
Every engagement is run by the person whose name is on the method, working alongside your team. No handoffs to juniors you never met. No leverage model billing you for training their graduates.
TPP is the execution arm. But there's a broader world behind it: content, community, and a capability accelerator for the teams that want to keep delivering after we leave.
Practical plays for CFOs, PE operators, and procurement leaders who want the unfiltered version. No consulting fluff. No theory. Just what actually works when margins are under pressure.
A capability accelerator for procurement professionals and teams who want to deliver real savings and build a track record, not just another training certificate.
Before we speak, we'll ask you a few quick questions: what you're trying to fix and where you are right now. Takes two minutes. Means the conversation is useful from the first minute, not the thirtieth.
Tell us your situation, what you're trying to fix, and when you want to move. Two minutes.
Book a slot that works. No back and forth.
No pitch deck. No discovery theatre. Just a direct conversation about whether TPP can help and what that looks like.
No pressure. No follow-up campaign. If it's right, we move. If it's not, we'll tell you.