SuperiorReview can help you obtain or maintain BDRT status. We have a history of helping corporations leverage their diversity spend to develop and implement proactive, cost-effective discovery management and consulting programs. We’re committed to helping our clients achieve BDR Membership by providing quality deliverables, sophisticated technologies and superior client support for maximum return on their diversity spend investment.
SuperiorReview is Certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the National Minority Supplier Development Council and the Southwest Minority Supplier Development Council.
Created in 2001, the Billion Dollar Round Table was created to recognize and celebrate corporations that achieved spending of at least $1 billion with minority & woman-owned suppliers.
- Close integration with sourcing organization
- Partnership with Advocacy Groups
- Annual objectives coupled with quarterly reports
- Mentoring
- Supplier information sessions
- Increasing support of Tier 1 suppliers in Tier 2 purchasing activities through focused relationship-building activities
- Expanding reach of performance metrics to increase accountability among team members
- Opportunity exchange, a valuable forum delivering business opportunities to MBEs
- Introduction of Supplier Diversity Champions throughout the organization
- The employment of a consultant in the early stages of program development
- Executive leadership support and involvement – the CEO is very supportive and vocal about the program
- The employment of a 3rd party I/T company to accurately identify our true minority spend
- Internal awareness programs
- Company wide implementation of NMSDC Supplier Diversity Best Practices
- Enhanced accountability tools/metrics
- In Tech Services, which is our largest area of spend, all Tier 1 contracts have a 25% diverse supplier utilization clause. Even small business suppliers which are generally exempt, have a 15% diverse supplier utilization clause.
- Requiring all large prime suppliers to become national members of NMSDC and WBENC to ensure the Tier 1 suppliers we do business with foster the same beliefs as we do
- Utilization of corporate policy to drive supplier diversity
- Establishment of supplier diversity within global purchasing
- Appropriate allocation of headcount and funding for operating purposes
- Accountability for achieving year over year supplier diversity objectives at all levels of the purchasing organization
- Frequent review of supplier diversity performance against objectives
- Canadian Aboriginal Minority Supplier Council member
- Minority Entrepreneur Initiative
- Senior management leadership involvement
