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Food Service Industry e-Procurement Solutions
For the highly competitive food service, processing and distribution industries, it is critical to continually identify ways to improve the bottom line without sacrificing product quality or customer service. Carefully balancing operating costs on the back-end with consumer demands for innovation and variety on the front-end can mean the difference between profitability and breaking even.
HedgeHog offers the food service industry an easy solution to automate time-intensive procurement processes and improve overall efficiency—resulting in greater profits and higher employee productivity. By partnering with HedgeHog, food service companies can realize several business benefits including:
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Reduced purchasing cycle time |
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Greater negotiation power |
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Access to a broader, global supplier network |
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Increased control and automation of the procurement process |
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Optimized spend management capabilities |
Food service businesses everywhere can utilize HedgeHog’s Web-based procurement tools to source all assets critical to their operations. This includes anything from point of sale (POS) systems, refrigerators, paper and packaging products to food grade ingredients and chemicals, cooking equipment and utensils. Our e-procurement technology has reduced costs for our food service customers up to 32 percent and reduced actual negotiation time from weeks to an average of two hours. HedgeHog’s solutions can optimize procurement processes for single property establishments with limited requirements or multi-property enterprises with highly active e-sourcing initiatives.
We provide food service establishments with improved functionality to :
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Develop sourcing & e-negotiation strategy |
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Identify & qualify suppliers |
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Analyze & assess spend |
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Create & manage RFXs |
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Run professional e-negotiation events |
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Produce real-time spend reports & bid analysis |
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Evaluate vendor performance |
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