FSN is a privately owned food procurement consultancy founded in 2002 by foodservice professionals who understand the complexities of the food procurement industry.
Working with you to improve your supply strategies and grow your bottom line.
It’s our aim is to ensure your supply system meets the highest standards of quality and reliability, whilst at the same time bringing you practical financial benefits. We have a strong work ethic centred on partnership with our clients.
Our ultimate goal is to be seen as an extension of your management team.
Here at FSN we offer a bespoke service to match our client's specific needs. Whether that’s a purchase audit report, a supported purchasing solution or for our unparalleled reputation for delivering an outsourced purchasing solution.
We can help in many different ways and we are confident that we can take your purchasing to new levels of efficiency and effectiveness. We offer impartial honest advice with no alliances to any one supplier in any supply category, it’s the solution that best suits your business.
Usually, the first thing most new clients want to establish are the level of savings and benefits we can achieve for you.
We will arrange to meet informally to discuss your objectives and expectations. This may initially just be an insight of where through our extensive knowledge we feel you could significantly improve your existing purchasing arrangements.
We can help in many different ways and we are confident that we can take your purchasing to new levels of efficiency and effectiveness. We offer impartial honest advice with no alliances to any one supplier in any supply category; it’s the solution that best suits your business. Working with you to improve your long-term supply strategies and grow your bottom line.
FSN has an unparalleled reputation for delivering an outsourced purchasing solution to match our client’s specific needs.
We have the tools and experience to act as a seamless standalone department working on your behalf to pre agreed goals and objectives thus forming an integral part of your own senior management team. Additionally though you may just wish us to support your own in house team. Either way we would welcome the opportunity to explain how we could deliver real tangible benefits for your business.
Remember though, it’s not necessarily all about the cost of a specific product. We have many other structured ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your existing purchasing arrangements which we guarantee, if managed correctly, will improve your bottom line.
We own and manage various simple to use cloud based purchasing and monitoring tools, including Allergen management specific to your own supplier price lists, ensuring that you and your sites have constant visibility of your supplier’s most up to date prices so that you can make informed purchasing decisions.
We also have other tools including but not restricted to the likes of stock management, menu costing and nutrient data these are evolving all the time and can seamlessly be integrated into your business under a generic label which offer the look and feel that they are your own in-house systems.
Furthermore we are happy to work in partnership with you to develop other bespoke extensions to our existing offerings.
We offer a range of other complementary services that could add significant value to your business, including but not limited to:
Advice for poor gross profit performing sites
Development of promotional programmes
Supplier audits
Bespoke product sourcing
Supplier manuals and purchasing procedures
Developing category management techniques
Provision of statistics
Competitive tendering & Evaluation
Supply of impartial market information
Every business is unique, and supply chains evolve as a business grows. We specialise in creating bespoke supply solutions for our customers, to optimise access to products, control over pricing, and to support your business as it develops and grows.
Analysing and streamlining your supply chain though is one way to help a business respond more quickly to market changes while boosting operational efficiency & profitability
The simple steps we follow are:
Review and optimise
Assess the reason for duplication (Eliminating where possible)
Think ahead
Creating the right environment is fundamental to the success of any business so if you are planning a new restaurant from scratch working closely with associate partners we can help and support you at each stage, including planning applications and building regulations if required.
Whether it's a refurbishment or a new premises we can ensure the end result not only looks stunning but will deliver you profitable results.
Involve your Chef
Know your menu
Think About What You Don’t Need (as Kitchens can quickly get cluttered)
Research Health & Safety Considerations