Johnson Controls is a leader in supplier diversity. Since 1993, we have spent more than $22 billion with certified women- and minority- owned suppliers. Globally, we have included more than 300 diverse and historically underutilized companies into more than 30 product and service procurement categories to support our customer solutions.
Johnson Controls’ supplier diversity program is successful because of accountability, training, and supplier diversity processes that extend into our customer and supplier networks. Supplier diversity is approached as a discipline that is not confined to one department, geography, or an elite group of star performers. All of the operational, commercial, and advanced supplier diversity activities are tied together with standardized processes company wide.
Here are some of the initiatives and processes we use to help drive supplier diversity:
We target spending categories with large dollar volumes of goods and services in order to grow diverse firms and encourage prime suppliers to form joint ventures, strategic alliances and distributorships.
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To enhance capacity among diverse vendors, we form groups called business modules that offer procurement opportunities and corporate training to diversity businesses nationally and internationally.
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We provide annual training in financial analysis, customer focus, leveraging the value chain, and leadership for managers of diverse firms via fellowships to:
The pre-qualification process is reviewed, along with active purchasing plans. Vendors with products and services that are potentially suitable for Johnson Controls are asked to complete a vendor profile. Vendor profiles are delivered to decision-makers for consideration on current and future projects.
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