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When you partner with Element, you become a partner for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are deeply committed to our team members, clients, suppliers and communities. Driven by our Purpose, to Move the world through intelligent mobility, we closely manage and track to ensure a diverse supply chain. For our clients, we provide tools to help expand their diverse spend with customized tracking solutions ensuring diversity commitments are understood, organized and reported. Element has established diverse supply chains in vehicle acquisition, delivery, upfit, maintenance, transportation, fueling, and accident repair.
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Element's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion began in the early 1990s with the creation of diversity employee networks and a supplier diversity program. The supplier diversity journey initially focused on developing diverse vehicle acquisition partners as well as a process to identify and verify maintenance and accident diverse vendors.
The journey has continued as Element developed additional diverse supplier relationships in other service categories over time and will continue as Element identifies diverse suppliers capable of meeting our client’s needs.
Element provides actionable and intelligent insights and supplier diversity data you can verify, trust and proudly report. We've made concerted efforts to expand our diverse supplier base, enhance our systems, automate reporting, and provide industry-leading capabilities.
Our efforts haven't gone unnoticed. We are proud to be recognized for our dedication and excellence in supplier diversity from our clients:
Commitment
>4,800
diverse suppliers
$1.9B
spend with diverse suppliers
Partnership
Element is committed to fostering a robust and growing diverse supply chain that meets the evolving needs of our clients and creates value for the suppliers we work with.
Michael Barrett
SVP, Strategic Alliances & Remarketing Strategy
Element is a member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMDSC), the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC), the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), Disability:IN Minnesota and the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business (CCIB). For our clients and our community of diverse suppliers, this means:
NMDSC, CAMSC and CCAB are the lead organizations in connecting corporations to minority vendors in the U.S. and Canada – giving Element and our clients access to a broad network of diverse suppliers.
WBENC is the leading certifier of women-owned businesses just as Disability:IN is for disability-owned business enterprises, including service-disabled and veteran disability-owned businesses connecting business to Element’s supply chain.
NMDSC, CAMSC, and WBENC will independently conduct annual data scrubs of our suppliers and audit, if they are certified, providing Element and our clients with the trusted insights into the make-up of our supplier base and where opportunities exist to improve minority spend.
Focus opportunities to further Element’s diverse supplier network
Build relationships with minority-owned, women-owned, disadvantaged/disabled-owned, indigenous-owned, veteran-owned, and LGBT business enterprises
Encourage supplier development and capacity building
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If you are interested in working with Element, please reach out using the Supplier contact form.
