Cooperative Purchasing Optimization:

The principles of Cooperative Purchasing Optimization are:

  • Right Products
  • Right Quantities
  • Right Timing

While the concept is simple, building a comprehensive program to support your agencies supplemental purchasing is complex, and “right” is defined differently in every organization.

Through a consultative approach, VAFS helps you design a program from the ground up or identify and fill gaps in your existing program to fulfill unmet agency and client demands in a reliable, efficient manner.

Through optimization, the Food Bank, agencies and neighbors can all benefit, in a sustainable partnership that brings more to the table.