This document is a cover letter and resume from Cafer Salcan, an industrial manager and supply chain/logistics professional with 17 years of experience. The cover letter highlights Salcan's accomplishments in increasing companies' profits and efficiencies through improved supply chain management. It requests a review of the attached resume to discuss potential contributions to the recipient's strategies. The resume then outlines Salcan's educational and professional background, including various management roles improving operations and savings for companies in industries like food production and logistics.

1. For companies who want to be successful, to increase profitability and to become a brandname in
today’s competitive world, it is crucial to analyse competition conditions correctly and to select the
right competition terms. The real competition is among companies’ supply chains.
In line with this fact, I would like to share with you my experience which I have achieved in Supply
Chain and Logistics Management through 17 years. In this process I have managed many
successful projects as professional manager or consultant. Among the contributions I have made to
these companies are increased turnover and profitability, improved customer service,increased
efficiency in supplier management, increased profitability in purchasing, increased speed and
flexibility in logistics, stock turnover rate improvement and managerial efficiency.
I think that team spirit is crucial for success and this spirit is in the hands of the manager. This fact
lies behind above mentioned achievements.
In order to walk with you in this direction and to contribute to your strategies with this vision as a
part of your team, I kindly ask you to review my attached cv.
Best regards,
Cafer SALCAN
Industrial Manager
Supply Chain & Logistics Professional

2. Cafer SALCAN
Professional - Supply Chain & Logistics
Birth Date 12/09/1974
Place Sarıyer – stanbul
Marital Status Married – 1 Child
Adres Yeşil Yuvam Sitesi – B Blok K:8 D:26 Kozyatağı
stanbul
Tel +90 533 607 99 77
Military State 1996-97/ 251. Reserve officer
E-mail csalcan@hotmail.com
web tr.linkedin.com/in/cafersalcan
EDUCATION
December 1999 OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY – MBA PROGRAM
May 2000 NORFOLK / VIRGINIA A.B.D. (Not complieted)
September 1991 YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY – INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
June 1995 ISTANBUL
1988 VEHB KOÇ HIGH SCHOOL – MATHEMATICS
1991 ISTANBUL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCES
2011 - 2012 GTT, a business idea developed by me, was founded as a joint-
stock company by the partnership of 6 companies in May 2011.
GTT is the first and only company in Turkey which manages all
stages of supply chain (like supply, order management,
logistics management and merchandising) from one hand in
order to meet the needs of national and local supermarkets.
Among the partners are leading companies of the sector;
namely NETLOG LOGISTICS, MEYSAN, ALARA, AGROBAY,
GOKKALE ( RAMSEY GROUP) and HASPAK.
Since the most important point within this organization was
GRUP TARIM TEDAR K Supply Chain Management, this department’s management
VE T CARET A.Ş. was given to me and one of the partners became CEO. The
company made its first sales in October 2011 and became
known in the sector with a revenue of 4.000.000 TL/month ,
HEAD OF SUPPLY CHAIN growth with 8% EBIT, and a volume of 40.000 tons in the first
year.
www.gttturkiye.com
I successfully completed the projects of opening of the
platforms, preparing the supply plans on yearly basis, supplier
planning, software development, transportation and distribution
optimization.

3. 2010-2012
Haspak, with its packing and distribution capacity of 40.000
tons/Year has been supplying fresh food to many national and
local supermarkets since 2002 as one of the leading
companies of the sector.
HASPAK TARIM
PAKETLEME LTD. I had worked as a consultant for them in the past and I moved
to Antalya in 2010 upon their offer to me to become their
board member.
PROFESSIONAL BOARD
MEMBER
First I developed projects to fulfill infrastructural needs which
emerged as a result of company’s growth. With staff
www.haspak.com optimization and automatization of the machinery park, order
fulfillment rate was increased to 100%.
Projcts were developed to decrease the debt stock and 2 million
TL/year additional saving was achieved by cost cutting
projects. Within this context, number of staff was decreased to
84 from 160, fixed costs were decreased to 350.000 TL from
500.000 TL. With the optimization of stock and distribution
costs, a saving of 300.000 TL/year was achieved.
With the re-organization of the company, a flexible supply
chain model which could answer the customer needs quickly
was launched.
On daily basis, packaging quantity was raised to 1200
kg/person from 800 kg/person and packaging quantity per hour
was raised to 20 tons from 12 tons with automatic sorting
machines.
2010-2012 FSL, the first and only company in Turkey with IFS LOGISTICS
certificate, was founded in 2010 to supply fresh food to national
and local supermarkets.
In this system goods supplied from suppliers for METRO and
REAL were handled on store basis, weighed and delivered to
stores according to IFS rules. 200.000 pallets were handled per
year.
FRESH FOOD SUPPLY &
LOGISTICS In this process, 1.2 million TL was earned from platform and
the company became profitable with 35% EBITA. In the
PROFESSIONAL BOARD meantime A101, DIA, ŞOK, G2M also became customers. All
MEMBER managerial issues and investments were pursued by me and
the software was developed under my leadership.
www.fsl.com.tr

4. 2005-2010 After my career at DHL ended, I re-modelled and activated my
company Lojitek. With 16 engineers and 5 project managers
working, this company became a brand in its sector and trained
2.000 people and gave consultancy to more than 50
companies. I worked as the general manager of the company
as well as being the management consultant to many
LOJ TEK LOJ ST K companies.
TEKNOLOJ LER VE
DANIŞMANLIK LTD. ŞT . In this process, I gave management and project consultancy to
Gübretaş, Tofaş, Eti Holding, Otokar, Çelebi Holding, Umur
Kağıtçılık ve Kırtasiye, Herry Giyim, Toyzzshop Oyuncak
Mağazaları, Sunman Oyuncak, Joker Oyuncakçılık, Borusan
Lojistik, Siemens, Aras Holding, Hyundai Ezerbaycan, Baku
MANAGING PARTNER
Electronics ( Distributor of Siemens, Samsung, Tefal in
Azerbaijan), Azercell, Selva Makarna, Mudo, Vatan Plastik and
CONSULTANT Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankacılığı. I trained 5.000 people and
SUPPLY CHAIN & gave consultancy and training to 350 companies about supply
LOGISTICS chain and logistics.
www.lojitek.com I attended many conferences and panels as speaker, shared
my experiences in my articles in industrial magazines. Within
F NANSBANK/ KOB F NANS, I answered questions of 20.000
companies about supply chain and logistics.
2004-2005 DHL is one of the biggest companies of the world in air cargo
transportation. In addition to this, they decided to give logistics
service to the customers and offered me a job about this.
As soon as I started to work, I prepared a large scale business
plan and sent it for approval to the headquarters in Europe.
DHL WORLD-WIDE
Warehouse and distribution investments, staff planning, sales
EXPRESS & LOGISTICS
and marketing activities, budgets, cash flows, profit-loss
analyses were all prepared by me according to this plan.
LOGISTICS SALES
MANAGER I was trained in Europe for 2 weeks about the software and I
was involved in international projects in the meantime. Supply
www.dhl.com chain models of global customers like HP and Gilette were
handled in the first instance.
After DHL took over Exel Logistics and founded DHL SUPPLY
CHAIN SOLUTION, our department was dissolved and our
business contract was terminated mutually.

5. 2003-2004 RL LOJ ST K (cargo@cargo) was taken over by ARIKANLI
HOLD NG in 2002 to produce B-to-B cargo distribution and
logistics service. I was invited to their team related to logistics
organization.
Firstly, projects about logistics infrastructure were started, a
model to achieve cargo-logistics synergy was launched. At this
stage, cargo branches were converted logistics brances & small
and midium size logistics centers where functional warehouse,
distribution, crosddock operations were carried out.
RL LOJ ST K
With shared logistics-cargo vehicle planning in transportations,
(CARGO@CARGO)
more synergy was achieved and profitability was increased. The
ARIKANLI HOLDING
company which was losing money in 2002-2003 period,
became profitable with more than 70% growth.
Project & Business In the first 3 months, I added companies like TOTAL, MOB L;
Development Manager BAYER to the customer portfolio and achieved a turnover of 6
million TL. In the following days we increased the turnover to
15 million TL by adding the companies with local transportation
volume. We launched an integrated logistics management
software that could handle cargo and logistics processes
together for the first time in Turkey. I leaded this project.
2002-2003 After my career at TNT ended, I founded Lojitek to share my
experience as a consultant.
In this process, I gave project based consultancy service about
management and investment issues to companies like Trakya
Cam, Arçelik, Multimedya Elektronik, zmir Lojistik, ETSUN
LOJ TEK LOJ ST K Holding ( Ikra Nakliyat). I worked as the company’s general
TEKNOLOJ LER VE manager as well as being the management consultant to many
DANIŞMANLIK LTD. ŞT . other companies. I attended many conferences and panels as
speaker. I organized ‘Supply Chain Panel’ with Istanbul
MANAGING PARTNER Chamber of Industry and ‘Supply Chain Conferences’ with
Bursa Chamber of Commerce.
CONSULTANT
SUPPLY CHAIN &
LOGISTICS
www.lojitek.com

6. 2000-2002 After I returned from USA, I started to work for this company.
Cargothech Lojistik is the first logistics and cargo company in
Turkey with its warehousing area of 40.000 m2, international
customers and more than 300 employees. I managed the
warehouse in this process with 120 employees, 200 tons of
distribution and transportation and handled customers like
L’OREAL, ADIDAS, KODAK, MAKO, SEBIT, MIGROS, BETEK,
JOHNSON WAX, VILEDA, CASTROL, P&G, BANG&OLUFSEN and
NOVARTIS.
With staff optimization and area consolidation, an increase of
TNT LOJ ST K & 80% in EBITA increase and a decrease of 40% in labor cost
CARGOTECH LOJ ST K were achieved. On time order fulfillment rate was increased to
99,6% and stock accuracy rate was increased %99,7.
LOGISTICS OPERATIONS
ASSISTANT MANAGER & Besides my above mentioned duties, I also prepared the
PROJECT CONSULTANT projects of the new customers, executed their project
management and implementation.
After TNT Lojistik took over Cargotech, I joined TNT Lojistik
www.tr.cevalogistics.com/
and worked as a project consultant for many companies in
Turkey and Europe like OPEL GM, Migros, Arçelik, MAKO.
1997-1999 After completion of my military service, I started to work at
ÇDAŞ DEM R ÇEL K. During my career here, I worked about
registering of operating supplies and raw material stocks with a
value of 100 million TL and managing their movements. 30.000
SKU were coded, keyed into the IT system and registered. The
30.000 m2 warehouse and 100 employees were managed by
me.
ÇDAŞ DEM R ÇEL K
Stocks were analysed, minimum stock levels and order
ZABE A.Ş.
deadlines were integrated with production planning and all
stocks were optimized during this process. 2.000.000 TL were
LOGISTICS OPERATIONS saved as a result of these operations.
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Company’s ERP structure was improved so that profit-loss
www.icdas.com.tr analysis could be made according to cost accounting.
The company became ready to use SAP in terms of user and
infrastructure.
1995-1996 I managed about 30 staff, a monthly stock of 1,4 million TL,
production of signal circuits and components for 1200 vehicles.
This was a good chance for me to apply my theoretical
information and to develop my management skills and
information about stock optimization, production planning etc.
During this process I achieved a decrease of 17% in direct
production costs.
MURAT KABLO LTD. ŞT
PRODUCTION PLANNING
CHIEF

7. COMPUTER & SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES
• MS DOS and Windows XP Operation Systems
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point, Project etc…)
• Siman and cinema simulation packages
• Pascal and Basic Programming Languages
• AS400 Operation System
LANGUAGES
English, Intermediate
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
Poetry,melodizing, ship modeling, traveling, painting arts, exhibitions (operated a professional
image gallery.)
References
Cüneyt Ç V OĞLU – General Manager Umur Basım ve Kırtasiye A.Ş. 0532 698 7955
Orkun KARAYEL – General Manager KSN Logistics Solutions 0532 241 5511
Mustafa HANÇERL – General Manager HANÇERL Gıda 0533 865 7080
Ahmet V Ç N – Tedarik Zinciri Dir. YASAR HOLDING 0532 353 7025
Sadık BAYDERE - Country Manager LOGWIN Logistics 0532 416 3170
Kahraman KARAKURT - General Manager CARGOTECH Lojistik 0532 466 3939
Alpaslan KESER - Yalın Yönetim BAYER LAÇ 0532 241 1121
Aşkın GÜVEN - General Manager F LLO KARGO (Aras Hold.) 0532 294 0532
Atilla YILDIZTEK N - Consultant 0532 215 6818
Barbaros ABA - Board Member NETLOG LOJ ST K 0530 333 8178
Burak AVCIL - General Manager SPEKSA DANIŞMANLIK 0532 572 0337
Çiğdem B C K - Firma Sahibi Crossborder Corporate 0532 324 0085
Hayri BARAÇLI - General Manager IETT 0532 234 5969
Mehmet ARIMAN - General Manager RL Lojistik 0532 266 1134