Procurement & Cost Management
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Profit is made in purchasing, not in sales.

Should-cost modelling, commodity-indexed price revision control and raw material forecasting — the cost discipline of a 29-year practitioner, turned into tools your team can use the same day.

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12% procurement savings ≈ the profit impact of 100% sales growth. MIT & PwC survey of 209 international companies. The leverage sits on the buy side.
L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 Order Mgmt Negotiation Volume & CBD Cost Problems Supply Chain Redesign +10% +10% +10% +10%
getCIFA in use at a global automotive OEM Selected software — BTM Kesişim Evaluated — İTO & İSTKA Collaboration — CIPS Türkiye
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The Platform · getcifa.com

Three Tools, One Platform

Procurement cost intelligence covering the full life of a part — from design to end-of-life.

Before the RFQ

Should Cost

Bottom-up target cost from material, process, labor, energy, overhead and margin — before the tender opens. Compare design alternatives while the design is still fluid.

22 processes12 country cost structures
After the contract

Cost Change Calculator

Every supplier price revision validated against commodity indexes. The defensible number on screen in minutes — increases and decreases alike.

350+ indexes, monthlyWorld Bank · IMF · FRED · Eurostat
Order & negotiation timing

CIFA Forecast

An AI raw-material forecast agent: "where is this commodity going over the next two quarters?" — so orders and renegotiations are timed with the curve.

37 commoditiesTwo-quarter forward view

Design philosophy — the bicycle, not the airplane. The market offers heavy platforms with long implementations. getCIFA is browser-based: no integration, no onboarding project, usable the same day. In use today at a global automotive OEM.  Visit getcifa.com →

Full Cost Control

Across the Product Lifecycle

Most cost is decided before the first order is placed — and quietly lost after it. Fifteen stages, three tools, one prerequisite technique: cost breakdown negotiation.

Design & Sourcing
RFQ / Quotation
Award
Industrialization
Serial Life & Exit
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1 · Should Cost
2 · Cost Change Calculator
3 · CIFA Forecast
Should Cost — stages 01–08: defines what the part should cost through design, spec, RFQ and selection Cost Change Calculator — stages 09–14: tracks monthly cost movements and acceptable revisions after contract CIFA Forecast — stages 13–14: times reorders and renegotiations with the two-quarter commodity outlook
Design & Sourcing
  1. 01Product design
  2. 02Technical specification
  3. 03Demand forecast
  4. 04Supplier discovery
RFQ / Quotation
  1. 05RFQ launch
  2. 06Samples / prototype
  3. 07Offer evaluation
Award
  1. 08Supplier selection
  2. 09LOI / contract
Industrialization
  1. 10Tooling / preparation
  2. 11Pilot run / product approval
Serial Life & Exit
  1. 12Serial production
  2. 13Inventory / reorder
  3. 14Renegotiation
  4. 15End of life
Methodology

5 Levels of Procurement Maturity

Each level unlocks roughly 10% saving potential — up to 30% in total. We assess where you stand and build the path upward.

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Order Management
  • Order processing
  • Stock management
2
Basic Negotiation & Price Comparison
  • Vendor discovery (limited)
  • Basic negotiation techniques
10% saving potential
3
Volume Effect, Consolidation & Vendor Development
  • Vendor discovery (broad)
  • Technical negotiation (CBD)
  • Vendor classification
  • Segmentation
  • Strategy reports
  • Purchasing strategy
  • Cost efficiency
10% saving potential
4
Solving Cost Problems
  • SRM
  • Cyclic relationship management
  • Design to cost
10% saving potential
5
Optimal Supply Chain Structure
  • Tailor-made strategy reports
  • End-to-end supply chain design
10% saving potential
Services

How We Work Together

Quick Saving (S.A.M.S)

Solve a price problem, award the best vendor, keep the competitive advantage, solve a cost problem — fast, focused interventions.

9 hours
Procurement Maturity Program

Structured path through maturity levels 3–5: training, tools and coaching for the whole team.

38+ hours
getCIFA Platform

Should Cost, Cost Change Calculator and CIFA Forecast — with know-how and mentoring included.

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Strategy Reports

Country / sector buy-sell opportunities, HS-code worldwide purchasing and selling analysis, vendor discovery long/short lists.

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Independent Validation

Screened and Selected

getCIFA is not a claim — it has been evaluated and selected within İstanbul's industry and technology-commercialization ecosystem, and runs on real purchasing desks.

Global Automotive OEM

getCIFA in active use on automotive purchasing desks.

BTM Kesişim

Selected software — İstanbul Technology Commercialization Center.

İTO & İSTKA

Evaluated within İstanbul Chamber of Commerce and İstanbul Development Agency programs.

CIPS Türkiye

Training and content collaboration with the procurement profession's global body.

About

A Boutique Consultancy, Built on 29 Years

TLU Consulting was founded by Ömer Tulu Tezcan — 29 years in procurement and cost management: 27 in international supply chains across France, Canada and Türkiye (the last 20 in strategic purchasing), and 2 building TLU Consulting and the getCIFA platform.

At Kingfisher he worked for a year alongside Magnus Carlsson — one of the builders of IKEA's purchasing system and author of Strategic Sourcing and Category Management.

We specialize in cost breakdown negotiation, should-cost analysis, commodity forecasting, price volatility management, purchasing strategy, SRM and vendor discovery — delivered as consulting, training and software. As a boutique consultancy, you get direct access to the founder: the person who built the methodology is the person in the room.

€90B
GM & PSA joint purchasing organization — annual volume
£300M
Savings at Kingfisher, on a £3B spend base
29 yrs
Procurement & cost management — France, Canada, Türkiye
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Purchasing schools — Concordia & PSA Academy graduate

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