Procurement / Trading

From day one, the primary function of FITC was to offer and provide procurement services to customers in their efforts to supply their facilities with quality, low cost agricultural commodities.  Initially, the procurement service that was offered to clients was to have FITC act as the purchasing department of the agricultual commodities for customers, thus freeing up their time to concentrate on other aspects of their business.  These services were offered on a fee basis with the fee determined by the tonnage handled and the complexity of the logistics in getting these products to the customer’s facilities.  As we grew and others wanted the type of services we were providing to the original customers, services were offered to accounts on a “cost plus” basis.  Today we work with a significant number of customers in numerous ways.  We can custom tailor a purchasing program for a customer's  procurement needs right from handling any one specific commodity for the customer, up to handling a company's total product purchasing function.  In some cases we even provide purchasing consulting services on agricultural commodities upon which the customer wants advice.