Unified Purchasing Group Of Canada (UPGC) Selects Instill

Will Utilize Food Spend Management Solution To Drive Savings For KFC, Pizza Hut, And Taco Bell

Redwood City, CA - Instill Corporation, a provider of technology solutions and services for the foodservice industry, announced that UPGC chose its Food Spend Management solution to identify system-wide cost savings opportunities and drive additional value for franchisees.

"We chose to work with Instill because they were the only vendor who had a proven solution," said Evelyn Sutherland, UPGC's Chief Financial Officer. "Instill's track record delivering quantifiable savings to foodservice operators made the choice pretty easy," she added.

The Instill Food Spend Management solution allows foodservice operators to ensure they are capturing the full value of their contracts, easily monitoring and enforcing unit compliance with order guides while identifying contract price variances, purchases eligible for rebate, opportunities for SKU rationalization, and other cost savings. Instill automates the collection and standardization of unit level invoice data from distributors and presents the information in powerful, intuitive applications that allow purchasing professionals to eliminate time consuming spreadsheet based processes.

"Prior to working with Instill, we relied on manual processes and spreadsheets to track and measure the effectiveness of our programs. With the granularity of information and time savings afforded by the Food Spend Management solution we can now be more strategic in our purchasing approach and provide substantial incremental value to our franchisees," noted Sutherland.

"We are very excited to add UPGC to the Instill family and take another step into the international market, said Tony Wilson, President and CEO of Instill Corporation. "UPGC's vision proves that restaurant operators worldwide have identified supply chain management initiatives as key competitive opportunities," he added.

Leading foodservice operators leverage Instill's supply chain information services in combination with a powerful, intuitive suite of applications to improve decision making through better visibility and control of their supply chain. Instill offers a comprehensive, integrated suite of solutions for operators that include Procurement, Promotion Management, Food Spend Management, Quality and Compliance Management, and Product and Supplier Master Data Management.

SOURCE: Instill Corporation