Supply Chain Digital Magazine May 2023 | Page 68

META

“Opportunities shouldn ’ t be based on historical systemic biases and supplier diversity really challenges that business norm ”

KRYSTLE SANDS HEAD OF SUPPLIER DIVERSITY FOR THE EMEA REGION , META
Meta ’ s S2P and supplier diversity journey Meta ’ s source-to-pay organisation has been on an impressive transformational journey over the past few years . When Sands came aboard back in 2019 , she joined a small global team who were set to expand . Since then , the team has expanded out on an international scale . They ’ ve grown in their tooling , their processes and their capability , all within a very short timeframe .
“ We ’ re able to do this by building connections , by driving stakeholder engagement and by building an intuitive buying experience – all while streamlining our processes ,” says Sands . “ We ’ ve aligned our performance measures to north stars that embody source-to-pay ’ s commitment to our stakeholders . Supplier diversity sits within one of those North Stars and shines as part of our community pillar .”
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