PIP Ltd

Buying food ingredients and catering services is a challenging area of procurement. Constantly fluctuating commodity prices act as a barrier to transparency. Without the right information, it’s hard to know when you are getting value for money from suppliers or to negotiate the best deal with contract caterers. Food procurement is often complex and time consuming – for any one product there may be between five to ten alternative wholesalers with a difference price for each product within their delivery. Additionally at any one time there may be between five to 20% of costs of goods mispriced on the invoice to either the negotiated pricelist or the market price. Where catering and facility services are provided on site, staff are better focusing their energies on delivering quality meals and excellence in services. Dealing with administrative headaches can be a major distraction.