Supplier Diversity Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Supplier Diversity Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Supplier Diversity related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Supplier Diversity specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Supplier Diversity Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supplier Diversity improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. How do you ensure the continual supply of goods and services from minority suppliers, as well as the trust and confidence of your vendors, customers, employees, and shareholders?
   
   

2. How might your organization use the Supplier Base Dashboard to evaluate performance and identify opportunities to build greater diversity and resilience in its own supplier base?
   
   

3. What sort of management and business practices best utilise higher level skills and how can similar practices be adopted by organizations of diverse sizes and sectors?
   
   

4. When will the board address and make part of the policy of your organization Diversity Equity and Inclusion in internal hiring practices AND Supplier Diversity?
   
   

5. What processes and controls are used to perform validation of data completeness and accuracy based on the data sources used in preparation for reporting?
   
   

6. Does your organization have sustainability initiatives that align with your existing initiatives or could help you pursue new sustainability projects?
   
   

7. What measures can consumers consider to ensure more diverse supplies and reliably maintain energy security to balance energy demand growth?
   
   

8. How do you plan to strategically work with the supplier diversity team to identify new diverse suppliers for subcontracting opportunities?
   
   

9. Should companies planning to expand the supply chains in other emerging markets stay focused on larger and more diversified economies?
   
   

10. What updates or supplements to curricular materials will need to be made to ease transitions between virtual and in person learning?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Supplier Diversity book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Supplier Diversity self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Supplier Diversity Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supplier Diversity areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Supplier Diversity Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Supplier Diversity projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Supplier Diversity Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Supplier Diversity project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Scope Management Plan: Are internal Supplier Diversity project status meetings held at reasonable intervals?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Has a provision been made to reassess Supplier Diversity project risks at various Supplier Diversity project stages?
   
   

3. Cost Estimating Worksheet: Identify the timeframe necessary to monitor progress and collect data to determine how the selected measure has changed?
   
   

4. Team Performance Assessment: How do you encourage members to learn from each other?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Are the right people being attracted and retained to meet the future challenges?
   
   

6. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its research funding systems are appropriately effective and constructive in enabling quality research outcomes?
   
   

7. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that it is appropriately effective and constructive in preparing its staff for organizational aspirations?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: Is the steering committee active in Supplier Diversity project oversight?
   
   

9. Milestone List: Do you foresee any technical risks or developmental challenges?
   
   

10. Schedule Management Plan: Are software metrics formally captured, analyzed and used as a basis for other Supplier Diversity project estimates?


 
Step-by-step and complete Supplier Diversity Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Supplier Diversity project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Supplier Diversity project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Supplier Diversity project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Supplier Diversity project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Supplier Diversity project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Supplier Diversity project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Supplier Diversity project with this in-depth Supplier Diversity Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Supplier Diversity projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Supplier Diversity and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supplier Diversity investments work better.

This Supplier Diversity All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.