Ray Nowak, Farm Credit of Maine












 
FPI means "one-stop shopping" for Farm Credit associations. Here are two important points that help paint the picture of how FPI does business:
  • We provide true "one-stop shopping" for business management and support services, from technology and software support to general ledger accounting and management reporting.

  • We focus on solutions, not products.

One-stop shopping

FPI focuses on technology and operations, which form the bulk of our "core" services. Our association customers identify the essential services that they need in order to achieve economies of scale for their businesses, such as a flexible, fully integrated business system, loan accounting and general ledger processing.

Solutions, not products

Think of FPI as a provider of solutions, not products. FPI provides and procures a broad range of services and business tools for our owner associations. This means that if we can't provide a service efficiently with our own in-house suite of services, we will identify appropriate outside vendors, negotiate the lowest possible cost and administer the service relationship.

The bottom line is this: FPI gets the job done as a builder, purchaser, negotiator or administrator.