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 copywrited/proprietary interactive windows based software, Produce Cost Management System [PCMS], which enables regional & national restaurant chains specific insight and knowledge of all the components of their distributors produce costing. NPC`s technologies, applications and resources quickly enables management the ability to identify areas to reduce and better control and eliminate costs. Better understanding opportunities to better meet company and financial goals. NPC implements practical business policies and procedures which go beyond obvious cost cutting measures -- it`s not enough to negotiate with growers and suppliers or distribution partners for small discount(s). A reduced price might help a little with the budget short term, but it doesn`t solve the bigger problem of control and/or reduction of fresh produce spend, without affecting quality, yields, and labor costs. Enabling our clients daily and annually to move and react quicker, delight customers, systematically control and reduce expenses, thus beating your competition. NPC monitors fob market activities daily, addresses produce issues nationally/ regionally and locally, provide weekly customized order guides, electronic invoices, and monthly or quarterly savings reports, to 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, grow and maintain working long-term relationships with your customized premium 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 NationalPurchasingConnection. 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, product movement, substitutions, shortages as well as being alerted of quality or food safety issues. Not to mention tracking and monitoring produce service requirements and 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 as well as NPC`s other proprietary software applications it truly the industries best as well as the last fresh produce supply chain 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% of the companies utilizing outsourcing said they will continue to do so in the future!

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