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Bokkos, Daffo West Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member Frieson, BellSouth's chief diversity officer. "This is what we've always stood for and always will. We know that in order to meet our revenue goals and remain one of the best places to work in America, we must maintain our commitment to fully utilize our employees' diverse talents and way of thinking." BellSouth has a rich heritage of diversity spanning all aspects of its business. That commitment reaches deep into the communities BellSouth serves as reflected in the company's marketing and advertising, purchasing, recruiting, service deployment, and philanthropic phil·an·throp·ic also phil·an·throp·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy; humanitarian. 2. Organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance: involvement. In the area of purchasing, BellSouth believes that creating partnerships with small, minority, and women-owned business is vital to the company's success in the marketplace. "We recognize that the strengths provided from a diverse base of suppliers directly benefit our business," says Tim Houghton, BellSouth chief procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. executive. BellSouth is continuing its commitment to supplier diversity Supplier Diversity is a business program that encourages the use of previously underutilized minority owned vendors as suppliers. It is not directly correlated with supply chain diversification, although utilizing more vendors may enhance supply chain diversification. in 2002 by pursuing a number of initiatives. These include exploring innovative ways to introduce minority and women-owned businesses into large, often difficult to access supply streams; working with BellSouth's Corporate Diversity Council to set company procurement policies that reinforce supplier diversity as an important dimension of the company's overall inclusion strategy; and delivering the business case for supplier diversity to employees through communications and training. Additionally, BellSouth is expanding its long-standing commitment to supplier development by sponsoring workshops to address topics such as e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , the RFQ RFQ Request For Quote RFQ Request For Quotation RFQ Request for Qualifications (part of a potential client's preliminary selection process) RFQ Radio Frequency Quadrupole (accelerator technology) process, and online auctions; holding procurement pavilions throughout its service region; and increasing the number of small, minority, and women-owned businesses it mentors on an annual basis. For additional information about doing business with BellSouth and BellSouth's supplier diversity program, visit www.bellsouth.com |
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