Complete Fresh Produce Supply Chain Solutions! Best Outsourcing option available within foodservice and a ROI of 3-8/1 return. Fresh produce procurement and distribution management, specializing in solutions for the entire produce supply chain. NPC and our specialized staff excel in information, technology, resources, and solutions. NPC continues to set the bench marks for regional and national corporate based produce programs since 1990. NPC successfully enables national and regional restaurant chains, contract food feeding organizations, schools, and health care organizations to develop customized programs designed to their specific needs and applications. Your customized program allows your organization to control (reduce) food costs and ensure your company’s success and profitability without jeopardizing quality or increasing your staffing requirements. Many national chains have tried produce programs through broad liners, marketing companies, and buying co-ops only to uncover that there are just too many hidden fees, rebates, or volume discounts, NPC would be honored to personally show you how to develop your company’s personalized produce program and reduce your produce spend 5-15%. One phone call and an easy 120 day side by side test market comparing what you have in place currently enables you to experience the results!

NPC provides the only copywriten/proprietary interactive windows based software, Produce Cost Management System [PCMS], which enables regional & national restaurants specific insight and knowledge of all the components of their distributors produce costing. NPC`s tools helps identify areas to reduce and better control and eliminate costs. Through outlined contracts and specific freight rates by area, which are outlined and adhered to. Not to mention controlled and generally reduced margins. NPC offers produce specialists, customer service representatives, and on-site training seminars to support and educate procurement and operations, even at the unit level. NPC monitors fob market activities daily, addresses produce issues nationally and locally, and provides weekly customized order guides and monthly savings reports, ensuring costing objectives are met. NPC also publishes a concise and informative weekly newsletter. By using the client’s, ``your preferred network of produce distributors`` and enabling you to build and maintain working relationships with major produce growers/shippers and processors, NPC helps secure for our strategic clients and partners the most competitive bottom line in our industry today. NPC enables our clients to lower their fresh produce spend nationally and better control labor expenses while increasing service and quality. E-Z Order @www.e-zorder.com a new subsidiary of NPC, Inc. has raised e-commerce to new heights, with its National Purchasing Connection. A single platform OES order entry system which easily integrates with all your current and future distributors. Creating a communications platform so you can instantly track and monitor future, current and previous purchases and/or sales information daily. Allowing you to monitor and control pricing, identify substitutions, be alerted of quality or food safety issues daily. Not to mention tracking and monitoring produce deliveries right from your laptop at home or you’re desktop at the office. This web based universal platform on-line order entry system was designed specifically for national restaurant chains. This program and its benefits ensure it is the best as well as the last procurement software you will ever need. Also now offering IRIS, (Immediate Response Information System) exclusively for the fresh produce and food service industries.

Optimize Enterprise Performance with PCMS and OES Procurement and Spend Analytics
NPC’s Procurement & Spend Analytics, part of the procurement and logistics applications, enable restaurant chains to optimize their supply side performance by integrating data from across the enterprise value chain and enabling executives, managers, and frontline employees to make more informed and actionable decisions. Organizations using this analytics tool benefit from increased visibility into the complete procure-to-pay process, including comprehensive spend and procurement analysis, supplier performance analysis, and supplier payables analysis. Insight into the factors that impact company performance enables organizations to significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction, reduce food costs and gain competitive advantage.
KPMG conducted a worldwide survey on outsourcing that concluded this employment option seems to be here to stay. 47% said they believe it creates new opportunities that would not be possible otherwise. 42% believe it helped their company financially and the vast percent felt it elevated their company to a more competitive level. 89% pecent of the companies utilizing outsourcing said they will continue to do so in the future!

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