Purchasing - August 11, 2005
Features
The changing face of supplier diversity
More and more businesses today are realizing and leveraging the business case for increasing their spend with minority and women-owned suppliers. In a recent Purchasing.com poll, 65% of respondents said such supplier diversity was either a mid-level or high-level priority to them. But as the goals for supplier diversity and the organizations managing those goals grow in size and complexity, it ...
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