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., Plano, 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. |