We work closely with our suppliers, partnering for success. Our Supplier Relationship Managers (SRMs) provide expertise and insight to help maximize your opportunities. Develop marketing plans that will help increase sales, profits and market share. Create the right strategy for your business.
 

The Future of Food Is Here

UNFI Next curates and incubates emerging brands. We bring them into distribution and support their growth at retail. It's the next big thing — new breakthroughs and brand introductions that are not currently in distribution.
 

Supplier Diversity

UNFI serves customers across diverse geographies and demographics. To best serve these customers from coast to coast and border to border, we embrace diversity across our business, from our talented associates to the vendors we work with to deliver the products and services our customers are looking for.
 

Our Program

An important part of meeting these needs in so many cities and neighborhoods is our Supplier Diversity program. This program provides minority, women and diverse-owned and operated companies equal footing to effectively do business with us.

While we work with many different kinds of companies - from grocery products to office supplies - these companies all have one thing in common: they share our passion for serving customers.
 

Our Commitment

UNFI is committed to developing, fostering and retaining relationships with diverse businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans (and service-disabled veterans), and members of the LGBTQ community and providing supplier opportunities that can offer quality, innovative, competitive, and cost-effective products, and services to our supply chain. 

National Certifying Agencies

Disability:IN (formerly USBLN)
National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC)
National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)
National Veteran-Owned Business Association (NaVOBA)
National Veteran Business Development Council (NVBDC)
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC)
United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAAC)
Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)

If you're interested in our program, first read about our registration process to ensure you're ready to register with us. Then, begin the registration process by using our Supplier Management System. To learn more, contact supplierdiversity@unfi.com. 
 

Supplier Support Site

Your 24/7 first-stop for information, forms, contacts and other resources for doing business with UNFI.
 

Supplier Community Updates

Visit our supplier blog for quarterly communications designed to share UNFI supply chain initiatives with our supplier and broker partners. Sign up to be notified by email when new updates are posted.
 

Supplier Portal 

Using the UNFI Supplier Portal, suppliers can:

• Manage contact and warehouse information
• Appoint a broker to use the Portal on their behalf
• Submit new items and track their status

Register for a Supplier Portal account, and download our quick reference guide and short tutorial videos by visiting the UNFI Supplier Support Site.