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What is Supplier Connection

Handbook of Research on Global Supply Chain Management
An initiative powered by IBM to help small businesses in US grow and create jobs by enabling them to connect with the supply chains of Fortune 500 companies, mid-market firms, and other enterprises.
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A “Flying High, Landing Soft” Platform for Supplier Diversity
Ye-Sho Chen (Louisiana State University, USA), Nurhan Davutyan (Kadir Has University, Turkey), and İris Ersoy (Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austria)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9639-6.ch004
Abstract
Diversity management has emerged as a unique agenda of today's corporations in the global economy. One important area of corporate diversity management is supplier diversity, which is an inclusive growth program designed to help develop under-represented businesses into competitive suppliers of corporations. A major challenge of supplier diversity is that many minority suppliers lack the capability to deliver products which the corporate buyers need. Another major challenge is that few minority suppliers have the ability to participate in the global markets opportunities. We address these two problems by proposing an innovative “Flying High, Landing Soft” platform for international education in supplier diversity to help multinationals manage their global supplier diversity.
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