The power of combined purchasing creates a market where business owners thrive.
The Louisville-based purchasing teams at UFPC® negotiate pricing for all food, packaging, non-food and equipment items used in over 25,000 A&W, KFC, Long John Silver’s, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in the U.S. Our teams of buyers operate from three purchasing centers located in Louisville, Ky., Dallas, Texas, and Irvine, Calif. UFPC manages an annual spend of over $5.4 billion.
Our world-class purchasing team understands that success is defined by price, quality and the management of risk. Buyers negotiate prices on thousands of food, packaging, non-food and equipment items annually. Our key competencies lie in the strategic processes developed and executed to support the multilayered national sales programs for each brand.
Unique to our organization are UFPC’s Centers of Excellence teams. These groups operate from our three locations and deliver a solid one-two punch to the entire system across shared commodity areas, including wheat, oil, corn, cheese, poultry and more.
Our commodity risk management team is located at UFPC headquarters. This team partners with our cross-functional purchasing team members to ensure that each of our five national purchasing cooperatives (A&W National Purchasing Co-op, Inc., KFC National Purchasing Co-op, Inc., Long John Silver’s National Purchasing Co-op, Inc., Pizza Hut National Purchasing Co-op, Inc. and Taco Bell National Purchasing Co-op, Inc.) are well-informed and strategically positioned for volatile market changes that could affect supply and price.
Food, Packaging and Non-Food Items
UFPC – Louisville, Ky. |
UFPC – Dallas, Texas |
UFPC – Irvine, Calif. |
| Ice Cream, Mugs |
Cheese |
Meats |
| Oil, Sauces & Seasonings |
Dairy Products |
Produce |
| Potato Products |
Imported Foods |
Sauces/Seasonings |
| Poultry |
Sauces/Seasonings |
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| Processed Foods, Beverages, Desserts |
Wheat Products |
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| Seafood |
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| Seasonings |
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Equipment Purchasing – Louisville, Ky.
The equipment purchasing team sources equipment and smallwares, leveraging the combined volume for all Yum! Brands restaurants. The team manages supplier relationships, product availability, price negotiations, product/supplier consolidation and cost reduction initiatives. Equipment purchasing also maintains supplier contracts, performs STAR audits and manages the detailed database containing thousands of items purchased by concept co-op members.
The scope of equipment purchasing also includes responsibility for approved equipment distribution relationships and store model management.
- Individual contracts are held with each approved equipment/smallwares distributor. All distributors are given the UFPC negotiated costs from the suppliers, which allows them to compete based on their service level to Yum! Brands operators.
- Equipment store models contain the approved equipment and smallwares necessary to build a specific restaurant plan. The models help ensure accuracy and consistency in the equipment package for every new build.
- PFI tracking measures the successes in negotiated cost savings and cost avoidances that benefit Yum! Brands restaurant operators.