Business Diversity Software

Simplify supplier diversity compliance with all-in-one software to manage your business diversity program.

Eliminate inefficiencies and find everything you need in one place with a cloud-based platform that covers all aspects of your supplier diversity compliance initiatives. No matter what type of business diversity program you manage, B2Gnow works for your organization. From states to state DOTs, cities, counties, transits, airports, education, general contractors, healthcare, and more – organizations benefit from one solution to manage vendor certifications, track small and diverse vendor utilization, and generate reports for program compliance and results. Save up to 60%-80% of time spent on administrative tasks, freeing up time for endeavors that make a bigger difference in the communities you serve.

Build a Better Supplier Diversity Program

We’ve led the way in transforming supplier diversity compliance. With over 25 years of business diversity experience under our belts, our team brings a wealth of knowledge to help you start, pivot, and grow your supplier diversity program and achieve your compliance goals. B2Gnow has been implemented at over 400 organizations, including those with some of the largest and most complex supplier diversity programs across North America.

Access the Largest Database of Certified Suppliers

Over 130 certification agencies use our system to certify and track supplier diversity certifications (MBE, WBE, DBE, VBE, SBE, etc.) – this certification data is native and real-time in the B2Gnow system. Plus, we import over 100 other third-party directories into our system.

Streamline Spend Tracking and Utilization

Automate diversity tracking to ensure accuracy and efficiency at every step. Our three different types of spend and utilization tracking modules in the B2Gnow system – from tier 1 to tier x – allow you to effortlessly monitor, track and report your spend while maintaining critical supplier diversity compliance according to federal, state, and local requirements.

Gain Visibility & Produce Reports

Choose from over 400 standard system reports, PowerBI access and data libraries, export options and API/web services, allowing you to easily visualize your business diversity and report on the impact of your program. From supplier utilization to compliance metrics, you’ll glean valuable insights that drive strategic decision-making and give you complete visibility into your activities.

Guarantee Compliance

Confidently ensure supplier diversity compliance with federal and state regulations, ordinances, laws, executive mandates, and corporate resolutions. The B2Gnow team members are experts in supplier diversity compliance and the system can guarantee compliance on all levels. From 49 CFR Part 23 & 26 to public utility commissions, state, county, and city compliance regulations, tracking, and reporting, the system can even apply multiple programs against a single project.

Expand Your Vendor Pool

Benefit from powerful vendor outreach and engagement capabilities. Search, sort, and group vendors by a variety of parameters such as certification type, certification agency, race, gender, NAICs, and much more. Widen your vendor pool and maximize diverse vendor utilization through simplified set-up, management and execution of campaigns and events.

Contract Compliance

Gain confidence that your contracts adhere to supplier diversity compliance regulations.  Manage contracts and payments for the prime and subcontractors at all levels and monitor all relevant diversity requirements incorporated into the terms and conditions in a single system. Maximize actual MWDSVBE utilization with the option to have certified firms directly confirm their participation. B2Gnow helps you meet your goals, stay compliant, and remain ahead with performance metrics at a glance.

Certification Management

Dramatically streamline certification management – from application to decision. Plus, easily manage expiries and renewals. Replace mountains of paperwork with one easy-to-use online system that helps you increase standardization and improve the quality of certification application review. Effectively manage resources with transparency and insight into pending records at all stages and review timeframes. Our supplier diversity management software enables seamless communication with vendors and gives you a single source of truth throughout the entire workflow.

Spend Tracking

Discover unparalleled spend and utilization tracking, and understand exactly where every dollar is going with our robust spend and MWSDVBE utilization tracking capabilities. Through three different types of spend and utilization tracking modules in the B2Gnow system, you can choose to track spend from just your tier 1 vendors (spend analysis) to tier 2 (prime reporting) to tier x (tracking through all levels of subcontractors on a project).

Vendor Sourcing

Gain access to the world’s largest real-time catalog of certified suppliers. Our supplier diversity software allows you to easily widen your diverse vendor pool, identify certified firms from anywhere in the country, register or prequalify vendors based on your defined criteria, and outreach and engage with vendors in one central location.

Bid Management

Incorporate bid management into your compliance system for a truly seamless experience. From posting and publicizing to proposal submission and award, our supplier diversity software allows you to enhance your certified vendor outreach, increase your certified vendor awareness and participation in your bid/proposal opportunities, and manage certified utilization plans with verification.

25+ Modules to Simplify Every Step of Supplier Diversity Management

Baseline & Vendor Management

  • Contract Compliance
  • Outreach & Events
  • Utilization Plans
  • Goal Calculation & Setting
  • Online Vendor Registration
  • Spend Analysis
  • Projects
  • Certified Directory Connections
  • Airport Concessions
  • On The Job Training
  • Workforce
  • Certified Payroll / Prevailing Wage
  • Reviews
  • Hire Module
  • Sales Reporting
  • Insurance Certification Management
  • Dashboard & Economic Impact
  • Recipient Reporting Suite
  • Certification Suite
  • Bid Management Suite

Contract Compliance

Ensure adherence to contract compliance requirements and regulations.

Outreach & Events

Organize and manage outreach campaigns and events efficiently.

Utilization Plans

Build subcontractor plans and allocate subcontractors based on certification status and work categories.

Goal Calculation & Setting

Set and monitor contract- and project-specific diversity goals based on US DOT standards.

Online Vendor Registration

Simplify the vendor registration process with online forms and workflow management.

Spend Analysis

Analyze and report on M/W/D/SBE utilization and expenditures to enhance diversity spend tracking.

Projects

Efficiently monitor and manage projects with multiple contracts through our supplier diversity software.

Certified Directory Connections

Access and manage certified directories seamlessly within the supplier diversity system.

Airport Concessions

Manage concession contracts efficiently with integrated tools in our easy-to-use supplier diversity software.

On The Job Training

Facilitate on-the-job training programs with streamlined processes.

Workforce

Accurately track and analyze workforce utilization data.

Certified Payroll / Prevailing Wage

Ensure compliance with prevailing wage rates and labor regulations.

Reviews

Track ongoing vendor review requirements and efficiently collect necessary information.

Hire Module

Manage the hiring process seamlessly with our business diversity software’s tools and workflows.

Sales Reporting

Submit detailed vendor sales reports online according to predefined policies.

Insurance Certification Management

Manage vendor insurance requirements directly in the supplier diversity software.

Dashboard & Economic Impact

Present program information and economic impact reports to the public.

Recipient Reporting Suite

Oversee enterprise diversity program with comprehensive reporting tools.

Certification Suite

Streamline certification management with automated processes and audit trails.

Bid Management Suite

Facilitate bid posting, bid tracking, and online bidding through our integrated supplier diversity software tools.

Baseline & Vendor Management

Make compliance easy. Make a difference in the community.

Discover how our supplier diversity compliance and grant management software solutions help you streamline processes and allow you to deliver greater impact to your community.


Supplier Diversity Software FAQs

A supplier diversity program is a proactive, inclusive procurement practice that encourages the purchasing of goods and services from businesses that are at least 51% owned and operated by a traditionally underrepresented or underserved group. This often includes minority-owned business enterprises (MBEs), small business enterprises (SBEs), women-owned enterprises (WBEs), veteran-owned small businesses (VOSB), and many more.

Organizations and companies have supplier diversity programs to level the playing field and widen the pool of suppliers while making a positive economic impact in their local communities. In addition, these programs help organizations to reach their DBE or other supplier diversity goals, often based on disparity study data, by tracking contract compliance.

Supplier diversity management software provides comprehensive functionality to support supplier diversity programs and makes finding certified vendors a breeze! It streamlines processes with multitier tracking and reporting, driving accountability and improving data integrity. A comprehensive system will produce detailed reports with the click of a button, seamlessly manage complex compliance and regulatory requirements, creates efficiency, and ultimately helps organizations achieve supplier diversity goals instead of chasing paper.

Supplier diversity management software works, and B2Gnow clients often see a time savings increase of 60-80% on administrative and clerical activities. More importantly, the efficiencies gained from supplier diversity software result in better data, greater visibility and reporting, and more small and diverse suppliers competing for and winning business.

Organizations should consider supplier diversity management software if a significant amount of time is spent on manual processes, data integrity is questionable, reports are painstakingly challenging to create, contract compliance is critical, and teams are running in circles with multi-system chaos and spending way too many hours sifting through various sources of certified directories. Moreover, organizations need supplier diversity management software if they have important community and supplier diversity goals to meet but no time to waste with questionable data and tedious processes.

B2Gnow is the leading provider of supplier diversity and spend tracking programs for more than 400 state, local, corporate and educational organizations. The B2Gnow supplier diversity solution provides end-to-end management of supplier diversity and spend tracking programs detailed spend analysis of all procurement and vendor spend, and seamlessly manages and automates the diversity certification processes. The 100% web-based, modular platform addresses every aspect of the vendor/supplier management and diversity compliance spectrum.

B2Gnow supplier diversity management software is an enterprise-class, multi-module, SaaS system used by more than 400 state, local, corporate and educational organizations. One million users regularly access the system to register, prequalify, submit compliance/payment/sales reports, manage grants, review bid solicitations, and manage workforce/EEO data. 25 modules provide a cost-effective and flexible solution, with a focus on vendor self-responsibility to manage and report their data, substantially reducing administrative effort and often resulting in 60-80% time savings. Our unmatched customer base includes airports, housing authorities, cities, counties, states, DOTs, transits, health systems, school districts, universities and colleges, corporations, general contractors, utilities, and healthcare networks. B2Gnow is a fully redundant hosted solution with guaranteed availability of 99.9%, as well as SOC 2 Type 2 certified. The B2Gnow team has experience implementing and maintaining over 500 interfaces with over 100 external systems and has facilitated migrations of millions of historic records from legacy systems.

Supplier diversity software is a specialized type of technology solution designed to help organizations manage and track their supplier diversity initiatives. Supplier diversity refers to the practice of actively seeking and using products and services from businesses owned by individuals from underrepresented groups, such as minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ-owned, and other diverse enterprises.

Supplier diversity software plays a crucial role in helping organizations promote diversity and inclusion within their supply chains. By actively engaging with diverse suppliers, organizations can not only contribute to social and economic equity but also benefit from a broader range of perspectives, innovation, and business opportunities. The software allows businesses to measure and track their progress in supplier diversity initiatives, making it a valuable tool for organizations committed to promoting diversity in their procurement practices.

A Diversity Management System (DMS) is a comprehensive approach or software solution that organizations use to effectively plan, implement, and monitor diversity and inclusion initiatives within the workplace. The goal of a Diversity Management System is to foster an inclusive environment that values and leverages the diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences of employees. These systems are often designed to address various aspects of diversity, including but not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, and more.

Implementing a Diversity Management System reflects an organization’s commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Such systems contribute to the development of a positive organizational culture, increased employee engagement, and improved business performance. Organizations can customize these systems based on their specific needs and goals, aligning diversity efforts with broader business strategies.

Supplier diversity management is not only a commitment to social responsibility but also a strategic business decision. Engaging with diverse suppliers can lead to a more innovative and competitive supply chain, foster economic development in underrepresented communities, and contribute to a positive brand image. Organizations that prioritize supplier diversity often find that a diverse supplier base brings unique perspectives, enhances creativity, and contributes to overall business success.

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