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How Google Approaches Supplier Diversity

How Google Approaches Supplier Diversity

In their efforts to increase their purchases from diverse suppliers, major companies have encountered a problem: They cannot find enough with sufficient scale and capabilities to meet their needs. This article explores a solution that Google and others have adopted: pairing the diverse supplier with an established supplier in a formal mentoring relationship. For decades, major companies have aspired to help close the wealth gap in the United States by intentionally… Source link

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Can Qatar Really Replace Russia As Germany’s Gas Supplier?

Can Qatar Really Replace Russia As Germany’s Gas Supplier?

Long before the re-emergence of the ‘Pan-Arab’ ideology now increasingly evident among several leading Middle Eastern countries, Qatar had sought to go its own way, neither aligning fully with the U.S.-led power bloc on the one side nor the China/Russia-lead bloc on the other. This is in part a reflection of the hard facts that it shares the huge North Dome/South Pars natural gas reservoir with China/Russia’s key proxy in the region, Iran, and is geographically positioned directly… Source link

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Meat Is Latest Cyber Victim as Hackers Hit Top Supplier JBS

(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest meat supplier has become the latest casualty of a cybersecurity attack, posing a fresh threat to global food security already rattled by the Covid-19 pandemic. JBS SA shut its North American and Australian computer networks after an organized assault on Sunday on some of its servers, the company said by email. Without commenting on operations at its plants, JBS said the incident may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers. The attack… Source link

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