Diversified Ingredients Review: We Switched From Spot-Market Fats and Oils to a Single Distributor — Here's What Changed in Our Vendor Management Within 90 Days
Diversified Ingredients Review: We Switched From Spot-Market Fats and Oils to a Single Distributor — Here's What Changed in Our Vendor Management Within 90 Days Sourcing fats and oils on the spot market is a strategy that makes sense on paper — buy when prices dip, hold when they rise. In practice, the administrative overhead of managing multiple vendors, tracking multiple pricing agreements, reconciling multiple invoices, and coordinating multiple logistics relationships can quietly consume more cost than the spot-market savings ever deliver. For food, feed, and pet food manufacturers who have walked this road long enough, the appeal of a single, experienced distributor who can consolidate the whole category is obvious. Diversified Ingredients, Inc., based in Ballwin, Missouri, has been supplying fats and oils alongside a full portfolio of grains, proteins, starches, and specialty ingredients to manufacturers since 1987. This review examines what actually changes for a manufac...