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Food Market Hub vs FarMart: Which One Is a Better Procurement Management System for Your Restaurant

October 14, 2025

When you manage food operations, keeping costs under control and making sure supplies arrive on time are constant challenges. Many tools promise to simplify procurement, but not all of them give you what you truly need. Two procurement management platforms that often come up in conversation are FarMart and Food Market Hub (FMH). Let’s compare these 2 systems and see which one is actually better. 

Ordering and Procurement Workflow

With FarMart, the ordering process is more like sourcing. You submit your request through a form, FarMart matches you with a supplier, and then you approve the quality and confirm the order. This is useful if you want to discover new suppliers or source commodities in bulk. But it is not built for daily or weekly reordering, and most of the flow still depends on manual steps.

With FMH, you get a structured digital procurement process. You create purchase orders inside the system, choose the exact products, and track them all in real time. The platform even sends you low inventory alerts that can help you plan your next order, based on your sales data and stock levels. Instead of relying on emails or WhatsApp, you manage everything end-to-end in one place.

Why FMH is stronger: It turns procurement into a repeatable, digital workflow. This saves you hours every week and reduces order mistakes.

Inventory and Stock Control

FarMart is focused on connecting you to farmers and processors. It does not give you inventory tools to track what is in your kitchen or outlets. You may still need spreadsheets or manual checks to avoid over-ordering or food waste.

FMH, on the other hand, integrates inventory directly with your POS. Each sale deducts the right amount of ingredients in real time. You get low-stock alerts, expiry reminders, and visibility across multiple outlets. For you, that means fewer stockouts and less food waste.

Why FMH is stronger: Food waste can eat into your profits. In Singapore, the F&B sector generated over 817,000 tonnes of food waste in 2022 (source: NEA Singapore). With FMH, you reduce waste because the system knows exactly what is being sold and what is left in stock.

Supplier and Vendor Management

FarMart works with a network of commodity suppliers. They give you traceability and quality sourcing, but once you place the order, you do not get digital tools to track supplier performance or delivery reliability.

FMH goes deeper into supplier management. Every order is logged, every delivery time is tracked, and price changes are recorded. Over time, you build a clear picture of which suppliers deliver on time, which ones have the most accurate orders, and which ones increase prices too often. That data gives you bargaining power and helps you avoid unreliable partners.

Why FMH is stronger: With FMH, supplier management is not just about placing orders. It is about building long-term, reliable relationships that protect your business.

Analytics and Insights

FarMart emphasizes sourcing and sustainability. But it does not give you detailed reports about your costs, waste, or demand forecasting. That means you still have to rely on manual calculations if you want to predict how much to order for next week or next month.

FMH provides you with powerful dashboards. You can see ingredient cost trends, track wastage, and forecast demand based on historical sales. You also get menu costing tools that show exactly how much each dish costs to make, so you can adjust prices when ingredient costs rise.

Why FMH is stronger: With accurate data, you make smarter decisions. For example, if chicken prices rise 10%, FMH shows you how that affects your most popular dishes. You can respond quickly instead of waiting until profit margins are already shrinking.

Payment and Invoice Flow

With FarMart, invoices and payments follow traditional B2B practices. You receive an invoice, and then you handle payments through normal channels. There is little automation beyond the initial supplier matching.

FMH digitizes the entire invoicing process. Invoices are generated digitally, payment statuses are tracked, and you can even set up deferred payments. This means fewer errors and less time spent reconciling bills.

Why FMH is stronger: In many kitchens, staff spend hours every month checking invoices manually. FMH cuts down that workload and reduces disputes with suppliers.

Weaknesses of FarMart

While FarMart is good for connecting buyers and suppliers, it has weaknesses that limit its usefulness in the F&B market. FarMart depends heavily on partner farms for quality control, which can lead to inconsistency in ingredient quality and supply volume. For a kitchen that needs predictable and reliable deliveries, this creates unnecessary risk.

Finally, FarMart does not offer inventory management, real-time analytics, or deep supplier management. These are exactly the areas where FMH excels.

Why FMH Is the Better Choice for You

Think of it this way:

FarMart helps you source ingredients.
FMH helps you source ingredients, along with managing the entire supply chain process.
From placing orders to tracking stock, to analyzing supplier performance, to handling invoices, FMH is the all-in-one solution. It does not stop at sourcing; it gives you visibility and control over every step of your procurement.

If you only need to find new suppliers once in a while, FarMart may be enough. But if you want to build a system that saves time, reduces waste, and improves supplier relationships, FMH is the clear choice.

FMH gives you:

  • A digital procurement workflow that reduces errors

  • Real-time inventory tracking integrated with your POS

  • Strong supplier management tools for better negotiations

  • Detailed analytics to guide decisions

  • Automated invoice matching and payment tracking

In short, Food Market Hub makes supply chain management easier, more reliable, and more cost-efficient. That means less time fixing problems and more time focusing on your food and your customers.
In the F&B industry, efficiency is everything. Delayed orders, wasted stock, and unreliable suppliers cost you money every single day. While FarMart connects you to sources, it does not solve these deeper issues. Food Market Hub does.
By choosing FMH, you are not just finding ingredients—you are building a smarter, more efficient supply chain management process for your business. That is why FMH is the better option for you.
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