{"id":2462,"date":"2008-04-18T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/04\/18\/ups-supplier-diversity\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:02:22","slug":"ups-supplier-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/ups-supplier-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS Supplier Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve enjoyed watching how supplier diversity has changed \u2013 the types of suppliers being included and excluded from consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whats-the-next-frontier-in-supplier-diversity\/\">supplier diversity programs<\/a> were created to level the playing field after decades of discrimination left certain ethnic groups at a disadvantage. Today, as I\u2019ve stated before (and have been debated on), is that supplier diversity programs are being used for companies to create more appeal to their diverse customer base.<\/p>\n<p>The question I have for you is this: do you think UPS\u2019 new LGBTBE classification is more aimed at (a) compensating for societal discrimination of the past or (b) appealing to a diverse customer base?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and how the h*ck do you audit sexual orientation? If this type of classification becomes more widely adopted, will business owners try to cheat by claiming false sexuality the way suppliers have tried to cheat as described in the podcast Supplier Diversity Challenges?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Recommended Reading<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/courses\/strategic-supplier-diversity-best-practices\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Strategic Supplier Diversity Best Practices <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\/supplier-diversity-goals\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Supplier Diversity Goals<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/course\/view.php?id=5\"><span class=\"s3\">Managing Supplier Performance<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/did-the-procurement-profession-get-supplier-diversity-all-wrong-from-the-get-go\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Did The Procurement Profession Get Supplier Diversity All Wrong From The Get-Go?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><b>NLPA Learning<\/b><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>:<\/b>\u00a0Looking for authoritative procurement templates, tools, webinars, and more? Stop trying to create resources from scratch and start taking advantage of having exactly what you need right at your fingertips in\u00a0<span class=\"s4\">NLPA Learning<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve enjoyed watching how supplier diversity has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UPS Supplier Diversity - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/ups-supplier-diversity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPS Supplier Diversity - 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