The SASDC is a corporate-led initiative bringing together like-minded private sector companies to promote supplier diversity as a business strategy to achieve competitiveness and long-term sustainability. Members are like-minded private sector corporations, state-owned enterprises and universities that are committed to supplier diversity.
The purpose of the SASDC is to:
- serve as a conduit for corporate South Africa to reach black owned enterprises that are able to provide them with products and services, recognising such qualifying black enterprises as clients of the Council;
- act as the intersection for corporate members and a growing pool of Black-owned enterprises
- engage in sustainable business linkages through efficient targeted procurement programmes and effective enterprise and supplier development practices – in so doing, contribute to political and economic stability and enhance the country’s economic competitiveness as a key to sustained growth.
The ecosystem of the SASDC includes 28 corporate members and more than 830 certified Black owned, managed and controlled enterprises. The SASDC is also linked as an affiliate of the Global Supplier Diversity Alliance to similar organisations in the USA, Canada, UK, China and Australia. This global network is comprised of the Australian Supply Nation, Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC), Minority Supplier Development China (MSD China), Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) in the USA.
Website : South African Supplier Diversity Council
Website : South African Supplier Diversity Council
