Data Collection & Tracking

Spend less time tracking, certifying, auditing, and reviewing your vendors/suppliers.

Simple To Use, Outstanding Support

Our comprehensive training and support program includes onsite training sessions, web-based training, online help system, online video help, user quick guides, detailed user manuals, phone based support, and email support. Beyond initial training, we offer unlimited web based training and support throughout our entire engagement with you. Our users say the system is easy to use, and we stand behind it to provide exceptional support. The simplicity of the system keeps training time low (just a few hours), and minimizes the need to contact support.

Why B2Gnow?

2M+

Vendors

$2.2 Trillion

Monitored Contracts

4.4M+

Certification Records

200+

Certified Directories

25+

Modules

THE RESULT: DATA COLLECTION SUCCESS

B2Gnow software users (staff and suppliers/contractors) are happy to use the system because it makes their lives easier. Many already have login credentials, and with single sign on, users can maintain their certifications, view and manage contracts, attend a training class, and more from a single dashboard.

YOUR BRAND. YOUR SYSTEM.

The system portal used by your staff and contractors/suppliers to access the system is branded specifically to your organization. All system generated communication – email, fax, hardcopy – is also branded to your requirements. Prominent branding of your organization helps increase user adoption and response rates, which all lead to higher quality and more comprehensive data collection.

“I have cut costs, reduced overhead expenses and held my breath during the economic lull. All I need to respond to the MWBE Payment Confirmation is a Smart Phone and a few minutes between landscape jobs. I REALLY appreciate the forethought and sophistication of this reporting system. Someone thought the whole process through, and I thank you all.”

Landscape Builders, Inc.

Supplier Diversity Data Management

Supplier Diversity Data Enrichment

The Importance of Data in Growing Your Supplier Diversity Program

If you’re exploring the benefits of  increasing your annual spend with diverse suppliers, where do you start?

One word: Data.

Data, and how good that data is, is arguably one of the key pillars of a successful supplier diversity program. If your data is inaccurate or messy everything will suffer.

You likely miss your diversity goals, account for diverse spend that shouldn’t be, miss a chance to showcase additional diverse spend your organization has influenced. You’ll also waste your time and resources, miss an opportunity to demonstrate value and economic impact to your community, as well as deal with potential repercussions for federal funding repayment, and the list goes on…and on.

The good news is that there are tools and approaches that organizations can adopt to improve the integrity of their data, how they view and report on that data, and ultimately positively influence the success of their supplier diversity program and the communities they serve:

Move to Digital

If you’re sacrificing hours upon hours of manually sifting through the data, living in spreadsheets or toggling between several different tools or directories, chances are there are more than a few data errors that you’d feel comfortable to admit. If this sounds familiar, it may be a sign it’s time to go digital and leverage the power of a supplier diversity software system that automates many of these tedious, manual processes. A robust supplier diversity software system, like B2Gnow, automates and streamlines time-consuming data processes with a click-of-a-button.  In turn drastically increasing data accuracy as well as reducing time and effort necessary to successfully manage a diversity program. Oftentimes the result is that organizations are saving 60%-80% of time spent on administrative and clerical activities, while at the same time enhancing impact and reach.

Invest in Data Match and Enrichment

How confident are you that you have the latest, most accurate information on your suppliers? Could it be out of date?  Who is even verifying the information is correct? Bottom line is, if your supplier data is not accurate, your small and diverse business spend is probably flat-out wrong. Many leading organizations have seen the writing on the wall when it comes to the importance of the latest, most accurate supplier data and have turned to supplier diversity software systems for their comprehensive and trusted data scrub and data enrichment services.  B2Gnow supplier diversity management software hosts the largest certified diverse business database in the world – from directories to local and state certifying agencies – to match all listed vendors to the certifications available for such vendors. In addition, the company enriches the data by providing additional information for each matched vendor. The result is the rapid ability to qualify and quantify your current supplier data to maximize current goals. No more redundant or inaccurate data.

Go Deeper with Spend Analysis

Various organizations, such as government agencies, corporations, healthcare, and higher education, have unique needs when it comes to data and how they are tracking spend. For instance, many spend a significant amount of money on purchase orders or credit cards across a large number of vendors.  The issue is that this data on potential small and diverse business spend is lost when these dollars aren’t tracked and attributed. Software like B2Gnow’s Spend Analysis module allows organizations to quickly and easily capture and report on this important diverse spend data across their credit card and purchase order expenditures. The payment data is merged with B2Gnow’s extensive recognized certification and registry data, resulting in a complete spend analysis that allows the spend data to be visualized and utilized to granularly evaluate diverse supplier programs.

Multi Tier Tracking and Reporting

Your program might track and report on Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers; however, your subs may also subcontract with certified businesses. This shallow visibility results in inaccurate reporting on your entire small/diverse vendor utilization, significantly understating your organization’s efforts. Effectively tracking and reporting on those deeper tiers may seem impossible; however, comprehensive supplier diversity management platforms can track goals and record diverse spend up to tier 10, all while ensuring compliance.

Ready to get a handle on your data and grow your supplier diversity program?

Say goodbye to tedious, manual processes, and go deeper into your data. Easily track good faith efforts, opportunities, responses, diverse spend amounts, contractor relationships and more. Every action facilitated through B2Gnow stays in the system for use in workflow view as it’s needed, or to be used in one of our 400 standard reports.  Benefit from a robust supplier diversity software solution that streamlines and automates data-gathering, tracking, reporting, vendor management, and administrative processes, resulting in a significant reduction in staff time and cost – allowing you to focus on meeting diversity goals, not on chasing paper. 

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