The purchasing process has a big impact on the bottom line of any organisation. If managed well, it can save tens of thousands of pounds each year.
Cost-savings aren’t the only benefit that streamlining a purchasing process can bring – it can enhance sustainability, make managing allergens far easier, simplify administration tasks and equip organisations with far better reporting.
We recently worked with Marlborough College, an independent boarding and day school based in Wiltshire. The Operations Director, Mike Naworynsky OBE, was keen to understand how they could make their £1.4million procurement of food and catering supplies more efficient and improve product quality. As a result of our work, the College saw many benefits including a 20% reduction in the number of suppliers, 8% saving on food costs, a new procure-to-pay system was installed and thousands of paper transactions were removed by moving all ordering and payment data over to digital.
There are many benefits that modernising the kitchen management of an organisation will bring including:
· Make allergen and nutritional information more easily accessible and visible by installing a procure to pay system
· Achieve better pricing, as well as streamline stock ordering, by reducing the number of food and beverage suppliers
· Reduce food miles, CO2 emissions and enhance social value credentials by engaging with local suppliers
· Reduce food costs across the board
· Develop online dashboards that can provide detailed reports on how your pricing compares to other similar organisations
· Reduce and digitise invoicing and paperwork, taking admin and time pressure away from staff
Mike Naworynsky OBE, Director of Operations at Marlborough College, said: “To support our catering team, we modernised our support systems and procurement approach, with Litmus guiding us through this transformation. The solutions they designed and implemented have revolutionised our operations, yielding significant food cost savings and streamlining processes. We’ve eliminated outdated manual tasks, allowing us to focus on enhancing menu quality and with improved control and proactive system alerts, the management team is now better informed. The project has been a resounding success, and we continue to enjoy the results.”
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