What is it that makes the inclusion of indigenous businesses into supply chain important?

Supply Nation is the largest database of verified indigenous businesses. The listing and registration for the indigenous businesses is completely free. It is the first port of call for the federal officers looking for indigenous businesses to fulfil their targets for the indigenous procurement policy. There are two types of memberships available registered and certified. The certified indigenous businesses have more facilities provided to them. There are trainings available that are designed to guide the indigenous businesses. Indigenous businesses are the encouraged to list on the Supply Nation website. The process of registration hardly takes fifteen minutes if all the information is ready. If everything is ready then the information has to be entered on the online form and then the Aboriginal or the Torres descent documents have to be uploaded. Once everything has been uploaded verification takes a maximum of four days and then the indigenous business is listed.

Once listed these indigenous businesses are groomed to take on the competition. The corporate and the government bodies and not for profit organizations are exhorted to take up business with the indigenous businesses. There was a series of studies conducted in the United States regarding supplier diversity; it found that diverse supply chains are sustainable, flexible and innovative. These companies that include the suppler diversity are the ones with the greater innovative and inclusivity. These corporations stand to benefit if including supplier diversity in their policies of operations. Supply nation has all kinds of indigenous businesses as its members. There are construction companies, companies engaged in the hospitality industry. There are companies in facilities management, retail and design and many more fields. There is the case of the mutually beneficial relationship that came to the light when a office supplies indigenous company received a contract to supply office equipments to the global finance giant KPMG. The contract was for a period of two years. The contract was likely to be renewed after the period.

Supply Nation empowers the indigenous businesses to take on the world in this era of cut throat competition. There are tools like software that tracks every transaction and makes the lives of the people easy with it. The software and the training provided to the software operation makes the indigenous businesses quite nimble in their actions. There is of course the team work that is there to make the business a success. There is no single individual that makes the business a success.

Supply Nation empowers each of the indigenous business Australia based if they were to register and these are provided with mentorship that would make them the best in the class. There are corporate that number more than thousand that have become the members of the Supply Nation as well to make the most of the indigenous suppliers organizations. The corporate are also provided training in dealing with the Supply Nation listed indigenous businesses. There are programs like supply stream, jump start and spend tracker these are software designed for the corporate members.

Supply Nation works to connect over 2,500 verified Indigenous businesses Australia wide with more than 450 paid corporate, government and not-for-profit members in every state and territory.