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Supplier diversity and ESG for 2026

Operationalizing diversity and ESG on one supplier master.

What this session covers

Diversity reporting and ESG reporting fail for the same reason: the supplier identifiers behind the numbers do not match, so the dashboard cannot be defended in an audit. This session covers operationalizing both programs on a single supplier master — classifying Tier 1 diverse spend, collecting Tier 2 spend from primes as structured data, holding certification status on the supplier record so expired certifications stop counting, and putting qualified diverse suppliers in front of buyers at invite time instead of after the award, which is the point in the process where a diversity target is actually won or lost.

What you can do after watching

• Report Tier 1 and Tier 2 diverse spend from one supplier master instead of reconciling spreadsheets, and collect prime subcontract spend as structured data with P-card and payroll-integrated tracking.
• Hold certification status on the supplier record so an expired diversity certification drops out of the reported total the moment it lapses rather than inflating the next board deck.
• Surface qualified diverse suppliers from a discovery database of millions of records at RFx invite time, because an invite list is where a diversity commitment either becomes spend or does not.
• Read environmental and social metrics off the same supplier profile, so an ESG disclosure joins to the entities already in ERP instead of to unmatched vendor names.
• Benchmark the program against industry and diversity-group peers to turn a spend total into a named goal gap with a roadmap attached.

Related: supplier inclusion

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