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Make supplier diversity a top priority!

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are musts inside any business—but did you know you can demonstrate and promote your commitment to diversity outside your own four walls, too?

Supplier Diversity For Dummies shows you how to create inclusive procurement strategies and a “business-centric” program that ensures you’re offering equitable opportunities to diverse suppliers…

Supplier Diversity
for Dummies

(Wiley)

Nationally recognized small business strategist and economic inclusion and supplier diversity expert Kathey Porter delivers an empowering and informative guide to implementing this integral part of any robust inclusion initiative: supplier diversity. You’ll understand the relevance of supplier diversity and why it’s important to encourage equal opportunity for diverse suppliers and businesses owned and managed by underrepresented groups.

Supplier diversity ensures an open and inclusive competition for contracts during the procurement process, and the use of vendors of different backgrounds fosters a better understanding of a diverse customer base.

Over the last decade the number of minority-owned firms in the US has increased 38 per cent. As the number of minority entrepreneurs continues to rise, these business owners have recognized the need for B2B opportunities, and supplier diversity programs that create the fastest path to scale and grow a small business.

Implementing Supplier Diversity
A Driver of Entrepreneurship

(Palgrave Macmillan)

This book provides an in-depth view of supplier diversity programs and how they have contributed to the meteoric rise of minority businesses. Incorporating expert advice from supplier diversity practitioners as well as empirical data, it looks at the emergence of supplier diversity programs, how to make them effective, and their future.

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