Supply Chain Digital Magazine January 2024 | Page 72

META

“Diverse suppliers have an enormous impact on their communities . They employ people ; they pay rent ; they bring massive value to our economies ”

KRYSTLE SANDS HEAD OF SUPPLIER DIVERSITY FOR THE EMEA REGION , META
society in the creation of generational wealth and socioeconomic change .”
There are still many people that labour under the false impression that only the largest players , and the largest suppliers in the world are really capable of bringing about any kind of meaningful change ; and so ’ why then should the small players even play ?’
Krystle Sands is not one of those people . She illuminates the situation for the fatalist and disaffected by saying : “ Diverse suppliers have an enormous impact on their communities . They employ people ; they pay rent ; they bring massive value to our economies – economies which are primarily made up of small and diverse-owned businesses that exist to really drive us forward through their innovation , entrepreneurship – and the diverse perspectives that they bring .”
From this angle , supplier diversity is grass-roots , and it is in this recognition that Meta shines .
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