Supplier Diversity

Employee Advocacy and Training

Supplier Diversity Outreach Ambassadors

Our corporate commitment to improve our business with diversity firms does not reside within the Procurement organization alone. Supplier Diversity Outreach Ambassadors are a team of employee volunteers from across AT&T who represent the company at trade fairs and outreach events. The Outreach Ambassadors are knowledgeable about AT&T's supplier diversity mission and share program information with customers, advocacy groups, business councils, etc.

Recognition

Each year the Supplier Diversity organization hosts our annual Supplier Diversity Achievement Awards. Here, we honor employees who increase opportunities for M/WBEs and DVBEs to participate in AT&T's business.

AT&T evaluates and recognizes a supplier's overall quality in all aspects of our business relationship through our supplier quality initiatives. We recognize firms that provide excellent customer service and continuously strive to meet and exceed rigorous quality standards. AT&T's supplier recognition awards have become highly coveted within the supplier community. Each year, many of our recognized companies are M/WBE-DVBEs. A special Supplier Diversity Award is also bestowed on the prime supplier with the most exemplary supplier diversity accomplishments.

Employee Training and Education

All contract/purchasing managers receive mandatory supplier diversity training. The AT&T Supplier Diversity team works with Strategic Sourcing Managers to help them increase supplier diversity participation within the products and services they procure for the company. Our Supplier Diversity Web sites are also a ready source of information about our programs, providing program history and facts, spending results, key initiatives, supplier referrals, outreach event calendar, and much more. Supplier diversity commitments are included in contract managers’ performance appraisals.