When an organization partners with NPC, it enlists a management firm in helping restaurant chains set up contracts directly with the nation`s premium suppliers. Additionally, NPC facilitates and helps manage distribution, ensures quality, availability, and controls pricing for all your fresh produce requirements. The partner program includes all of NPC`s services. The benefits of partnering are numerous for end users, suppliers, and program distributors. Reduced food spend is only the beginning of numerous services offered by NPC.

By working with NPC, end users and strategic partners leverage the volume of produce procurement that NPC manages, securing lower costs for their produce needs. These contracts may be fixed or hi/low freight-on-board (FOB) costs or fixed delivered costs for bulk and processed (value added) product. Clients are provided with a set price on produce that alleviates the peaks and valleys while participating distributors and grower/shippers are guaranteed regular volumes.

Some commodities that NPC currently contracts nationally are, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, pineapple, soft fruit, melons, peppers, squash, berries, avocadoes, strawberries, and lopes/dews, and whatever your application requires.

NPC has the tools and resources required to ensure traceability from the fields to your customer`s plates.

An educated operator is informed with market trends and has a positive impact on pricing, thus reducing overall food cost. NPC offers educational and training seminars to all clients. At these seminars we present practical applications along with the most current updated produce information and handling techniques and guidelines.

NPC monitors fob markets nationally and establishes weekly pricing based on current, actual market conditions and an approved distributor markup. This part of the program calls for the chosen distributors to submit their `delivered cost` weekly for review. Freight is assessed daily, which for those on the East Coast is 50% of distributors` auditable costs.

NPC creates a weekly report called the Market Outlook. It is available on this site to any and everyone. The Market Outlook identifies current market conditions on major produce commodities. Its focus is on quality, availability and costing. With the upcoming release of NPC Connect (online ordering system) and the web based PCMS, end users will have access to all sales information on a daily basis, 24/7. This is a universal software accounting platform which gives our clients access to their data, regardless of distributor. Information is powerful!

NPC has the ability to show the last 3 to 5 years mostly market FOBs compared to numerous contract designs. NPC`s database of information is one of the best in the industry. It provides the most thorough information to design a structured procurement program based on your needs and menu requirements.

NPC provides the ability to implement processed (VALUE ADDED) produce throughout your organization either regionally or nationally.

As a client, you`ll receive computerized Order Guides and velocity reports. Our new OES system lets you dialy reports and real time inforamtion for all your purchases nationally with through your office or home`s computer. It is considered today as the most technological produce program software in the country.