Purchasing Solutions for Catering Operations,  saving time.... controlling costs.... ensuring disciplined purchasing

 
Full support Simplified Invoicing
Bespoke purchasing service Reduction in annual costS
Product sourcing, marketing & promotion Increase your purchasing professionalism

 


Full support

We assist our clients from sourcing products to financial results.

Partners In Purchasing provide:

  • Product sourcing

  • Preferentially negotiated deals

  • Price monitoring

  • Central billing

  • Review of purchasing procedures

  • Detailed purchasing analysis

saving time…controlling costs…managing disciplined purchasing.

Partners In Purchasing:

  • Provide full assistance to our clients, from ordering to financial results

  • Provide training and guidance in the early stages of commencement

  • Present a formal quarterly financial savings report

  • Regularly review our clients’ purchasing and suggest and implement improvements

  • Hold monthly contract roll out meetings

  • Phone, email and visit add regular communication through phone....

  

Product sourcing, marketing & promotion
  • We help you select the best suppliers specifically for your needs from the national network.

  • Your existing suppliers can remain in your portfolio.

Partners In Purchasing will source any catering product on our clients’ behalf, including Fresh Fish, Grocery and Greengrocery items, Fresh Meat,  Dairy, Chilled Foods, Disposable Packaging, Cleaning Materials, Uniforms and Kitchen Fittings. 

Each supplier accredited to Partners In Purchasing, is visited and rigorously assessed to ensure their compliance to standards of hygiene, health and safety, quality and environmental issues.  

We also provide:

  • Up to date market advice

  • Customer focused promotions

  • Brand promotions and campaigns to enhance customer loyalty and morale

  • Updates on high street service style trends

  

Bespoke purchasing service

We ensure our clients are paying the right price for their raw materials.

Our clients gain access to a wide spectrum of products from around the world, wholesaled by both national and local catering suppliers.

All prices are specially negotiated with new and existing suppliers if required.

Partners In Purchasing deliver:

  • Preferentially negotiated deals

  • The best prices in the market place

  • Totally transparent prices

  • Firm contracts with existing suppliers

   

Reduction in annual costS

We consistently reduce the annual catering spend for our clients.

  • Quarterly Savings Reports demonstrate the financial performance
  • Baskets are produced to highlight high volume items
  • Prices are tracked to monitor product and supplier price movements to discipline suppliers into accurate pricing and demand credits when anomalies occur
  • Turnover reports are compiled on a quarterly basis showing our clients’ spend with suppliers
  • Purchasing practices are improved
  • We provide strategic purchasing advice
  • Prices are held for contractual periods of time

  

Simplified Invoicing

We provide a purchase ledger service that’s reliable, accurate and prompt.

Partners In Purchasing pay the suppliers on your behalf so you pay only one invoice for all your catering services. 

This can save your organisation time and money – usually between £20,000 and £100,000 annually.  

We invoice you monthly in the reporting style of your choice and you reimburse us.

Our purchase ledger service is efficient, timely and accurate.  We pride ourselves on paying the suppliers promptly, reconciling all statements precisely and presenting the catering purchase activity, balanced to the penny.

In summary…

  • We reconcile supplier statements

  • The client pays only one invoice 

  • The client reduces administration costs significantly

 

Increase your purchasing professionalism

Partners In Purchasing:

  • Provide a continual review of purchasing

  • Ensure costs are effectively controlled at all times

  • Actively save our clients management time

  • Enable clients to maintain ownership of their catering operation