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SASDC members have an imperative to develop and grow Black SME suppliers with the ultimate goal of including them into their supply chain in a sustainable fashion. It is often cited that these suppliers are either not available, or not ready to be incorporated into a large organization’s supply chain due to a number of risks such as quality, working capital, operational excellence, and capacity to deliver at large scale and low cost.
Supplier Development has the purpose of improving a beneficiary supplier’s performance and overall business sustainability. Sustainability is one of the key measures of a business’s ultimate success, impacting on sustainable job creation and at a macro level, reducing unemployment in the country.
Levels of Corporate Supply Diversity
Assess your organization annually and take your organization to the next level.
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The Council’s official Supplier Diversity Training course assists corporate staff with:
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There are many benefits of becoming certified. In general, a SASDC certification grants you expanded business opportunities and exposure to leading national companies.
As a full supplier diversity service provider the SASDC exceeds simply establishing and maintaining a database of certified bona fide black suppliers. Our value proposition is in our network of professionals committed to supplier diversity in South Africa, enabling our members to practice supplier diversity as a strategic business objective. Our programs and services fall into three areas:
Linkage Facilitation;this interaction between our Corporate Members and Certified Suppliers is the core of our existence. The SASDC creates an environment conducive for business linkages between targeted corporate procurement opportunities and transaction-ready black suppliers.
Networking & Knowledge Sharing; involving all Members and Suppliers, we create opportunities for interacting between like-minded businesses, enabling a platform for sharing knowledge, experience and best practices.
Technical Assistance & Professional Development;as the intermediary body, we proactively engage with our Members and Suppliers, providing capacity building opportunities for both constituents.
| LINKAGE FACILITATION | NETWORKING & KNOWLEDGE SHARING | TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE & DEVELOPMENT |
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VALIDATION as a “transaction-ready” bona fide black business confirmed by our extensive vetting process EXPOSURE to members PARTICIPATION in ‘meet the buyer’ events INVITATION to Synergy Conference & Business Opportunity Fairs ACCESS to procurement opportunities from member corporates GLOBAL networks |
ACCESS to database of black businesses INVITATIONS to Black Supplier Input Committee forums REDUCE COST and effort of separately engaging with multiple corporations |
ACCESS to capacity building and skills workshops – marketing, social media, supplier diversity CUSTOMER SERVICE and support from our Relationship Specialists |
We aim to ensure optimal use of participant’s time by ensuring that such initiatives are in demand/opportunity based and focused on by making use of the following mechanisms to achieve this goal: • Multi-stakeholder business-to-business matchmaking events, • Corporate member-specific linkage initiatives, • One-on-one meeting between specific corporate buyers and matched suppliers, and • international business opportunity missions
If you are ready to be connected, our Supplier Directory provides you access (through a user-friendly and searchable interface) to valuable and verified information and credentials of Black-owned, managed and controlled businesses of varying turnovers, capabilities and expertise. We continue to certify new bona fide suppliers on a regular basis.
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