Supplier Diversity

 

Whether your goal is to encourage or comply with the use of minority-owned, women-owned, LGBT-owned, veteran-owned, service disabled veteran owned, historically underutilized business and Small Business Administration (SBA) defined businesses, we have a set of solutions that can help you achieve those goals.

Supplier Diversity Registration - encourage supplier diversity by engaging diverse suppliers to register with your organization for business opportunities. Supplier Diversity Registration allows your organization to collect information from diverse suppliers that can be made available for sourcing by procurement users.

  • Self-service supplier registration
  • Document uploads for certifications
  • Track certificate expiration dates and send expiration reminders
  • Automatically identify and self-certify SBA-qualified suppliers
  • Robust supplier search
  • Support for cold-call registration and batch invitations
  • Data import and export

Diversity Spend Reporting - Measure your diversity spend or comply with your contractual obligations by tracking your diversity spend. Our Diversity Spend Reporting solution is customizable and can support various ways to track diversity spend such as Tier-1 and Tier-2 spend, direct and indirect spend, etc.

  • Support for Tier-1 and Tier-2 Suppliers
  • Support for Direct and Indirect Spend
  • Configurable reporting periods
  • Import spend and supplier data
  • Automated reports with export capability
  • Automatic e-mail reminders with configurable schedule and message templates
  • Easy-to-use spend reporting wizard

Supplier Diversity Certification - If your organization certifies minority-owned, women-owned or other diverse business certifications, our Supplier Diversity Certification can help you manage the application and certification process.

  • Customizable, secure and easy-to-use online supplier certification and renewal forms with format validation and error handling
  • Customizable review, approval and certification process
  • Customizable email and letter templates to standardize and facilitate communications to suppliers
  • Online work queues to facilitate daily operations
  • Secure online application payment processing
  • Customizable certificate templates
  • Form audit trail for change history and progress tracking
  • Document upload for certification, tax forms, licenses and other important documents required for certification
  • Advanced supplier search
  • Role-based access control for supporting various types of users including corporate sponsors
  • Customizable reports with data export