Diversity Consortium is made up of 25 service provider partners
All of the DC service providers have unique offers designed to fulfill both our Up and Down market offerings. This is a team of best in class providers brought together in a programmatic platform that ensures collaborative and consistent work product.
We know that small businesses can have a hard time starting up, but that is where all businesses must start, even our two Co-Founders knew how hard it is. Becoming certified is a very important, but hard, step in the process of starting a business. Not only do we help businesses become certified, but we also offer a large range of resources to help you get connected with larger businesses/corporations, so that the entire industry can benefit from diverse suppliers.
The process to becoming certified is just three easy steps starting with finding out if you are eligible for certification. This step is called the Intake Interview. The next step is called the Documentation Meeting, which is when we will go over the goals and which certification is best for your business. The final step is the Proprietary Submission Process, this is the process that takes place right before you receive your certification. This process could take anywhere from thirty to ninety days, and once you receive your certification it will typically last a year from the date it was approved.
We understand the process of combing through the enterprise to collect, organize and analyze data to assess operational realities. Our reputation has been built by taking large amounts of data and information and communicating all of it in such a way that is easy for all stakeholders and decision makers to understand. We pride ourselves on showing our customers new and innovative ways of looking at their internal data and ensuring outcomes that improve their bottom line and exceed supplier diversity goals. We welcome the conversation on how we can take our competencies from supporting our clients to maximizing and streamlining processes throughout your supplier base.
Why Laisar?
- Our work gives us a unique insight into the supplier base
- Our best practices are unique, scalable and can work in any of the local markets where you are located
- We understand and have actively worked on the full life cycle of supplier diversity as well as enterprise supplier management programs
- Our programs intersect with DE&I platforms for talent optimization, bias-neutrality and inclusivity across the enterprise
- We deploy a proprietary web-enabled application for vendor management. This proven environment will provide real-time access to hosted data and will measure the economic and social impact of program spend at each of your locations and throughout the enterprise
- We are committed and vested in the ongoing success of your supplier diversity initiatives
Our Core Competencies
- Economic Impact & Inclusion Analyses
- Collect, Organize, Analyze, Interpret Data
- Create Actionable Insights for Impact
- Develop Narratives for Each Stakeholder Group
- Strategic Outreach and Vendor Onboarding
360 View of the Economic Impact and Inclusion
- Policy Assessment
- Employment Impact & Talent Sourcing Programs
- Program Planning & Task Management
- Processes & Standards Measurement along with Tracking & Reporting
Our Approach is Unique
- Leverage Data Science and Analytics to develop economic inclusion strategies
- Interpret internal and external data to understand trends and economic impact
- Location analytics to reveal relationships between data sets that might not otherwise have been obvious or easy to understand
- Communicate the story behind the numbers – Turning raw data into powerful insights
- We are shifting the conversation from corporate social responsibility to economic opportunity for all without sacrificing the bottom line
All organizations have data and information. Many are not sure where it is or how to access it. We enhance your prospects of success by bringing organization and collaboration to YOUR data, YOUR people and to YOUR business. Technology combined with expertise can assist an organization to find and cleanse existing data and close the gaps. We improve business by providing visibility to key information to:
- Streamline Communications
- Improve Efficiency
- Leverage Knowledge
- Protect Intellectual Property
- Increase Profits
Leveraging existing systems & tools
By empowering your internal and external teams to be more effective, along with access to insights from the mass amounts of data within your systems, expediential impacts can be created and performance can be enhanced when data is organized, integrated and presented in a fashion that allow professionals and executives to draw conclusions and make informed business decisions. We strive to enhance operations and productivity by uniting all facets of your organization.
Advisory Services
As a trusted advisor, we help clients optimize operational performance by first understanding the existing situation and requirements. We then research options through the lens of criteria and thresholds to form an optimal solution. Our experienced team is focused on helping our clients work more collaboratively through their people, systems and processes. We empower our clients by offering a broad suite of services and solutions which span the spectrum of their needs. Our expertise of aligning people with the systems and workflows, allow our clients to achieve their goals and organizational objectives to streamline applications and leverage information as well as structure data for better visibility and analysis. CWE deploys advanced analytics to gain better insights and to drive protocols and consensus for improved operations.
Assessments
This review is a combination of desk & on-site audits and analysis to define the current delivery model and ensure that the data accurately accounts for all costs and requirements. The departmental Service Delivery Process Maps define current systems, capabilities and processes along with the service level requirements. This baselines operations and defines the process improvement potential based on any constraints.
Deployments
We use this information to design programs, projects, and action plans that reduce IT operational costs. Programs control a prioritized mix of services designed to provide optimum financial and service level impact. Prioritization will be tailored to the culture and change readiness of your systems and organization.
We Empower Small Businesses to Let Your Voice Be Heard
90% of XBE’s fail to secure long-term corporate contracts through supply chain. Corporations believe doing business with small, minority, women, veteran owned businesses as to risky. They believe that these XBE’s do not know the corporation’s business. They additionally believe that most cannot handle the business. Many have long standing track records contracting with XBE’s only to discover the XBE’s over sold their capabilities and ultimately failed to perform. All of the above serve to minimize the opportunities available to XBE’s. Many XBE’s believe that corporations are not serious about doing business with them and continually tell them that they are “too small” or “not ready” as an excuse. The result is that both corporations and XBE’s spend time talking past one another and not focusing on solving the problem of how to increase xBE participation into the $37 Trillion dollar Fortune 500 goods and services market.
The Solution
Minimize the perceived risk presented by XBE’s seeking opportunities greater than their perceived capacity. This includes crystallizing the value XBE’s bring to the corporate supply chain, transition the XBE from selling products to offering solutions and enhancing the XBE’s capacity to address the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s supply chain requirements.
The Business Partner blueprint Difference
Dobbins International, Inc’s Business Partner blueprint is recognized as the #1 provider of corporate contracts preparation for XBE’s. Business Partner blueprint is a series of workshops and are globally recognized for providing XBE’s with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully compete against their larger competitors. All things being equal corporations will choose the larger competitor for the perceived risk minimization. Business Partner blueprint mitigates this risk differential with XBE’s larger competitors. XBE’s can now confidently compete understanding the true contracting requirements. This results in landing contracts 2-200 and supports legacy business building for XBE owner’s to serve a bigger purpose and make a greater contribution to their communities and passion projects.
The Problem
Healthcare systems and hospitals are under increasing pressure to focus on patient care while operating as efficiently as possible. Limited resources are often rightly focused on patient care, leaving efficiency to be addressed when resources are available. In addition, the many mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare space create additional demands for optimization resources to deliver expected cost optimization targets.
The Solution
GlideNet is a world-class service provider in the healthcare space. GlideNet has the objective of helping its IDN clients achieve their financial goals by reducing facility and non-clinical costs. The GlideNet team has collaborated to integrate value assessment, opportunity development and program execution, to bring about time compression and savings optimization at the lowest possible cost. GlideNet was formed to collectively serve the acute care marketplace – specifically, hospital systems in the United States. Leaders from best-in-class suppliers in the healthcare vertical converge to address the current state of the industry and determine how the marketplace can best be served.
The GlideNet Difference
GlideNet is not a classic cost reduction consultant. Instead, GlideNet’s team of industry veterans work with customer leaders at all levels to identify real tangible actions that will use resources more efficiently. GlideNet’s deep healthcare relationships and shared service delivery expertise are used to unlock multi-million dollar savings opportunities in the cost-challenged healthcare sector. In so doing, GlideNet is revolutionizing the healthcare industry’s cost structure by integrating non-clinical supply chain partners in ways that significantly reduce fixed and variable costs.
GlideNet Healthcare’s Gap Assessment Structure
Liquid Capital has a business model that is designed to handle the needs of small, medium and emerging middle-market businesses, while still delivering the resources and service capabilities of a much larger financial services company. Our company is built on a network of locally owned and operated Principal Offices, so whenever you’re talking to Liquid Capital you’re talking directly to your funding source, and a fellow business person. Our company is backed by an institutional lender and is able to offer funding up to $10 million. Our flexibility allows us to have unmatched client service that is uniquely local, reliable, and scalable. You can grow your business with confidence, knowing that we will be able to fund and service you at every stage.
Funding Solutions
At Liquid Capital, we offer a wide range of business factoring services, plus a dynamic range of additional financing alternatives, each designed for your specific needs:
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- Invoice Factoring
- Asset-Based Lending
- International Factoring
- Purchase Finance Program
- Working Capital Advance
- Top Up Financing
- Traditional Factoring & Business Factoring Services
- Invoice Discounting
- Equipment Financing
- Letters of Credit
- Export Factoring
- Import Financing
- Purchase Order Financing
- Inventory Financing
In addition to business factoring services and other funding alternatives, Liquid Capital offers a fully integrated service bundle including:
- Processing and ledgering of accounts receivable
- Credit review and assessment
- Professional collection of accounts receivable
- Preparation of all reports
We Focus On Your Employees, So You Can Focus On Your Business
Niroc Consultants’ focus is as an independent advisor in finding outsourced HR solutions for any size company, nationwide. Besides payroll only solutions, Niroc Consultants specializes in solutions within the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry, by providing workplace solutions that will give business owners the freedom to focus on their core business while their back-office HR needs are administered for them. The services provided when utilizing the benefits of a PEO include online payroll services and payroll administration, workers’ compensation coverage and risk management services, daily human resource support including employee handbooks, policies, procedures, guidance on HR related questions and concerns, employee group benefits, benefits administration and much more.
The programs available for workers’ compensation coverage will potentially allow for significant savings in time and money while creating better cash flow with a no-money down, pay-as-you-go workers’ compensation policy – and no audits! The programs available for employee benefits, especially health coverage, have proven to provide clients with excellent options along with cost savings.
HR outsourcing is one of the fastest growing small business trends because of the immediate and long-term benefits provided to employers. One of the biggest benefits of using Niroc Consultants is that we are an independent advisor and not tied to one provider. As such, Niroc will submit requests and obtain proposals from several of the top PEO’s in the industry on your behalf, saving you the time and energy of performing these tasks yourself. Let Niroc Consultants be an advocate for your workforce and HR solutions.
The Plan Consulting Group (TPCG) is a full-service strategic management, marketing and consulting firm that specializes in strategy development, cost reduction, revenue expansion and program execution.
Our Perspective
At TPCG, we strive to help our clients understand the challenges they face, and more importantly, to understand the options they have to improve their situation. By having reliable information and a clear view to the possibilities, educated decisions can be made that have a high probability of success. The foundation of our practice and service lines are to help our clients fully understand their existing situation and the best possible course of action to achieve their objectives. In the development and deployment of action planning to achieve these goals, key performance indicators (KPI’s) must be defined and tracked, as these are drivers that ensure success.
Our Objective
To leverage our market knowledge and experience to generate a competitive advantage for our clients. Our deliverables are designed to drive owner equity and the ability to realize the value of that asset. Our business model is built on a performance- based platform intended to align our services and the application of our intellectual property with the motivation of our client.
Optimization
The Plan Consulting Group has launched its Optimization services which aids clients in the development of network management strategies, long-range planning/road maps and implementation/action plans to drive the Glidepath to realize improvements, savings and profit enhancement.
Growth
The Plan Consulting Group is a full-service management, marketing and consulting firm that specializes in strategy development, revenue expansion and program execution. Our revenue expansion practice was founded to assist companies in their efforts to broaden a revenue base or value proposition.
Execution
Often times, clients are in need of execution support for a limited time period to ensure a new program or strategy launches effectively. Clients are not interested in hiring full time employees for services that are near term and finite in scope. TPCG will provide clients with skilled resources in strategy execution for limited time periods to ensure deliverable are met. We believe this service is a key feature in our offering set and demonstrates our commitment to our clients’ success.
Collaboration
TPCG recognizes the difficulties companies face to gain better control and insight to their content, business processes and how they access and share information. The Collaborative Work Environments (CWE) focuses on seamlessly integrating with client’s legacy applications and systems to enhance productivity and uniting all facets of their business. Creating a collaborative work environment is the objective of this practice. Leveraging the investments already made to consolidate information and integrate data sources to ensure sustainable ongoing management. This provides for effective executive dashboards and communication of actionable insights.
Technology. Solutions. Value. Delivered
MagRabbit MBE Group Offerings
- Global Digital Transformation Consulting
- Global IT Turn-Key Consulting Services
- Global Managed Services
- Global Software Development Services
- Global Supply Chain Management Transformation
- Global Supply Chain Management Services
- Global High-Tech Products Remanufacturing Services
Global IT Service Offerings
- Key Software & Hardware Engineering Skills
- Legacy Application Modernization (Cobol/DB2, Java, Salesforce, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Salesforce Consulting & App Cloud Development
- ERP: SAP, ORACLE, MS Dynamic, Magento, Sitecore, BigCommerce ERP Integration & Support
- AUTOSAR Embedded Software Platform Development
- DevOps – Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP, & Azure)
- QA / Automation Testing & Maintenance Services
- End-to-End Global Software Custom Development Services
- 24×7 Global Coverage
- Onshore/Nearshore/Offshore Blended Model (USA/Mexico/Brazil/Vietnam/Philippines)
- IT Professional Staffing & Staff Augmentation Services
- IOT- Design Engineering Services
- IoT Firmware Development, Software Apps and IoT Hardware Design
Global Supply Chain Management Service Offerings
- Supply Chain Transformation Consulting Services
- Strategist Plan
- Gap Assessment & Implementation Training
- Standard Supply Chain Management Services
- Third Party Logistics (Warehousing, Pick & Pack and Transportation)
- US and Asia Product Procurement & Just-in-time Delivery
- High Tech Product Re-Manufacturing
- Inbound/Electronic Product Triage
- Refurbishment & Part Harvesting
COMPANY PROFILE
Supplier Diversity Experts, LLC (SDE), is a minority, woman and disadvantaged (M/W/DBE) firm specializing in supplier diversity and the integration of these businesses into a corporation’s supply chain. We are MWBE certified by the City of Boston and MWBE certified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as well as DBE certified by Massachusetts Department of Transportation Unified Certification Program. SDE is a Global consulting firm serving the private sector, educational institutions and transportation authorities. We assist corporations, municipalities and institutions to increase their M/W/DBE, LGBTQ, and VET goals and provide the tools to enable them to embed the utilization of diverse businesses into their supply chain. SDE is the leading consulting firm dedicated to enhancing the economic development of diverse businesses and supplier diversity programs.
THE TEAM
SDE has partnered with the Diversity Consortium, started to overcome decades of sluggish supplier diversity growth by enhanced visibility to vetted XBEs, incorporating sustainable supplier improvements, and mitigating COVID-19 supplier impact and social justice issues.
Having a formal supplier diversity program is a key characteristic of the most successful corporations; 92% of Forbes Top Companies have formal Supplier Diversity Programs for their supply chain, along with Diversity & Inclusion Programs for their Human Resource efforts. For these companies, negative financial and reputation implications can result from not having a viable program in place. There may be penalties from contractual obligations or State and Federal regulations, at times simply losing business.
SERVICES
- Supplier diversity training program training to your employee base.
- Supplier diversity program implementation and execution or enhance your current program.
- Over 1,500 qualified Minority, Women & Disadvantaged (M/W/DBE) certified businesses in our database.
- Tier II purchasing program implementation.
- Reporting mechanism management to track your diversity activity spend.
- For transit corporations receiving Federal funding, we can provide FTA TVM Reporting Methodology reporting.
- Act as the primary contact for your M/W/DBE reporting customer and maintain your compliance reporting.
- We will increase your Corporate profile by representing your company at various supplier diversity events which includes joining appropriate diverse business organizations.
The principal and staff of our firm are intimately familiar with the SBA, 8(a) BD, HUBZone, woman-owned small business, Service-Disabled Veteran and state DBE and MBE/WBE certification processes, having successfully completed thousands of these certifications. The principal of our firm, Dick Otero has been a successful 8(a) BD business owner himself and also retains lawyers who specialize in minority business enterprises and who are expert in the nuances of the SBA and state certification processes.
Combined, we have more than 50 years of relevant experience in the area of small and disadvantaged business.
We are of the single mind that the 8(a)BD and other certification processes are very complex, are fraught with the likelihood of “application rejection” for merely technical reasons and tend to intimidate rather than attract otherwise qualified small businesses to these important, potentially lucrative SBA and state programs.
We at the 8aAuthority also know that no two 8(a)BD applicants are alike. Each applicant and their business concern is unique, and may not fit the mold of our tried and true processes. To help these types of companies and individuals, we provide a fast, easily accessible and no-cost means by which you can receive expert answers to what may be a unique or particular business situation. We never charge for our expert telephonic consultations.
That is precisely why our services include tips, examples, definitions and cautions to assist all applicants. Women, handicapped and other non-minority individuals who are socially and economically disadvantaged now can tell their story in a compelling way that meets the strict standards found in the SBA regulations.
In brief, our mission is to assist every qualified small business in America to seek and secure 8(a)BD, HUBZone, woman-owned small business, Service – Disabled Veteran and state certifications in the shortest time, least energy and financial investment as possible.
CERTIFICATION SERVICES
- 8(a) Package Preparation
- 8(a) Package Review
- 8(a) Length of Time in Business Waiver Preparation
- 8(a) Economic and Social Narratives Preparation
- HUBZone Application Preparation
- 8(a) Emergency Response Rescue
- MBE/WBE & DBE Package Preparation
- WOSB/EDWOSB Application Preparation
POST CERTIFICATION SERVICES
- 8(a) Business Plan Preparation
- 8(a) Participation Compliance
- 8(a) Annual Report Preparation
- SBA Mentor/Protégé Application Preparation
- Joint Venture Preparation
- 8(a) Certification Seminars and Webinars
- 8(a) Marketing and Sales Consulting
- 8(a) Mergers and Acquisitions
TPCGResearch (TPCG-R) specializes in helping a wide variety of firms with their everyday requirements of research, analysis and data. For these firms, TPCG-R model mimics the benefits of having an internal research team, at the price of a freelancer: TPCG-R offers the flexibility & cost-effectiveness of a freelance team, while providing the control & continuity of an internal team.
FULL COMPLIMENT OF DATA SOURCES
The biggest limitation for many businesses is that they don’t always have a dedicated team to scale up and tap into potential business opportunities. TPCGResearch solves this problem by providing the surge capacity to optimize project deliveries. We have a wide spectrum of capabilities and access to proprietary databases. TPCGResearch solves this problem by providing these services to optimize project deliveries.
TPCGResearch fills the gap between a full-time researcher and a freelancer, bringing out the best of both worlds. We offer the dedicated, professional and scalable research support that you expect from a full-timer, but at the cost and flexibility of a freelancer. Whether it’s a small research task, or an extensive research project spread over months, TPCGResearch’s unique work model is the ideal solution. TPCGResearch has industry specific business researchers that enable your in-house marketing team to focus more on insights, innovating strategies, and on executing attainable action plans. We help you learn more about the requirements and preferences of your clients, competitors, and market industries and let you focus on your core business.
HIGHLY SKILLED TEAM AT YOUR SERVICE
TPCG has an extensive track record working with large organizations as well as mid-market firms to develop strategy, expand revenue and execute programs.
Increased Focus – Companies can stick to their core business activities while our TPCGResearch team handles your time-consuming Business Research tasks. Control Costs – We can effectively minimize your costs while maximizing value. Plenty of opportunities will arise from having more people working for you at a lower cost than hiring them yourself. Industry Expertise – TPCGResearch has up-to-date knowledge tools for research and analysis. Market Research involves a lot of advanced technology for faster and extensive data acquisition, providing your company with the highest quality information in the market today. Balance – Our vetted team are experienced professionals that help you with your fluctuating research needs. You won’t have to worry about ramping up in hiring or having enough business for your current research teams.
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EQUITY & INCLUSION QUESTIONS!
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