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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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These programs are as familiar to procurement professionals as concepts like spend analysis or category management. Government, which has been sponsoring diversity programs since 1969 on government contracts. businesses proudly maintain robust supplier diversity programs.

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Ivalua Now and the Art – or is it the Science – of Procurement?

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But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. It’s a style of working that produced innovative thinking – but by its nature, could be hit and miss; where “miss” could have a significant negative impact to an organisation’s balance sheet.

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How federal contracting looks to women-owned businesses

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A group of 15 trade organizations recently surveyed small, women and minority-owned businesses, in part to measure their participation and readiness to compete for federal contracts. Our top policy priorities center around creating more opportunities for women owned businesses to participate in federal contracting.

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