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Supplier Diversity
Our Commitment to Community Economic Development Through Regional Purchasing Councils
October 6, 2004
Regardless of what industry you are in, transforming your business means reducing costs and driving efficiencies through information technology in order to make better, faster business decisions. By teaming up with minority suppliers through our membership in regional purchasing councils, Capgemini U.S. can help develop, implement and improve the effectiveness of your supplier diversity programs to do the right thing in the community and transform your business at the same time.
The supplier diversity movement traces its roots back to 1972, when the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) was chartered to provide a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses with a mandate to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes. The NMSDC network includes:
- 39 regional councils across the country
- 3,500 corporate members throughout the network
- most of America's largest publicly-owned, privately-owned and foreign-owned companies
- universities, hospitals and other buying institutions.
The regional councils certify and match more than 15,000 minority owned businesses (Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American) with member corporations which want to purchase goods and services. In 2001, NMBDC member corporations' purchases from minority companies totaled $63 billion. More than 10 percent of that figure came from the telecom industry's Supplier Diversity Challenge to its 90 members to commit to spend at least 10% with diverse suppliers, which added up to $8.7 billion last year.
In 2003, Capgemini launched a program in Los Angeles and Chicago to train, teach and mentor minority owned companies around best of breed technology solutions for Fortune 1000 companies.
How It Works
Capgemini is offering its local Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) to regional purchasing councils four times a year starting in the summer of 2003 for a Discovery Day for 15 of its certified member companies. The outcome of the ASE Discovery Days will be to develop business development relationships with minority companies for the purpose of teaming on engagements at existing and new clients. Capgemini's alliance partners will also be engaged during the ASE process to identify minority companies with technical certification needs and capabilities that can enhance both the quality and quantity of minority owned subcontractors and IT staff augmentation services for those Fortune 1000 companies who must comply with government mandates or self-imposed supplier diversity programs.
