We believe that in the food service industry of today, there are opportunities to improve the transactional relationships between suppliers, distributors, brokers and restaurant operators by developing a category management framework that will improve guests’ dining experience, evolve relationships into collaborative strategic partnerships, reduce costs and improve profit margins.

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The food service industry’s need for category management is being driven by the following key drivers:

• The growing need to source more strategically

• SKU optimisation and increasing inventory turns

• Changing consumer needs and dining occasions

• Maximising sales and profits by both the distributor and restaurant operators

• Economic challenges and slowing down industry growth

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At FFT, we embrace the need for category management and have therefore made decisions as to the categories in which we offer smart solutions: