Supplier diversity at SoftwareOne

SoftwareOne is engaged in several initiatives to enhance our supplier diversity. We are passionate about ensuring that our supply chain includes minority and underrepresented groups. Enabling this supports both our suppliers and our customers in their own efforts to increase supplier diversity.

Customer software portfolio diversity

SoftwareOne is actively involved in a programme to assess and prioritise the impact of the software and services we manage on certified diverse suppliers. This impact is significant, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually within the supply chain managed by SoftwareOne.

The IT, software products and services categories can be especially challenging from a supplier diversity perspective, and opportunities to directly attribute spend to diverse suppliers are inherently limited. Customer investment decisions in this category are primarily driven by technical and commercial priorities, making it more difficult to prioritise supplier diversity.

However, we are actively engaged in establishing a pilot programme to help our customers better address the challenges of supplier diversity in the Software & Services space. In the US, we’ve worked with leading supplier diversity partner supplier.io to enhance reporting capabilities and support our clients’ disclosure obligations.

As part of our third-party due diligence programme over the coming years, we will improve our understanding of the diversity landscape of our suppliers at a global level.