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Supplier Diversity

Our Commitment to Supplier Diversity

Johnson Controls is a leader in supplier diversity. Since 1993, we have spent more than $22 billion with certified diverse suppliers. Globally, we have included more than 300 diverse and historically underutilized companies into more than 30 product and service procurement categories to support our customer solutions. Johnson Controls uses third-party certified-diverse suppliers that are minority-owned, woman-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQAI+ owned and disability-owned business enterprises..

Johnson Controls’ supplier diversity program is successful because of accountability, training, and supplier diversity processes that extend into our customer and supplier networks. Supplier diversity is approached as a discipline that is not confined to one department, geography, or an elite group of star performers. All of the operational, commercial, and advanced supplier diversity activities are tied together with standardized processes company wide.

Here are some of the initiatives and processes we use to help drive supplier diversity:

Strategic Growth Opportunity Targeting

We target spending categories with large dollar volumes of goods and services in order to grow diverse firms and encourage prime suppliers to form joint ventures, strategic alliances and distributorships.

Vendors with products and services that are potentially suitable for Johnson Controls are encouraged to complete a vendor profile in order to be considered for current and future projects.

Create a Diverse Vendor Profile
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Report Diverse Spend

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Capacity Building

To enhance capacity among diverse vendors, we form groups called business modules that offer procurement opportunities and corporate training to diversity businesses nationally and internationally.

Executive Education

We provide annual training in financial analysis, customer focus, leveraging the value chain, and leadership for managers of diverse firms via fellowships to:

Minority Business Executive Program at the Tuck School, Dartmouth College.
Kellogg School at Northwestern University.
University of Wisconsin's Minority Executive Program.

Straight Talk Sessions

Johnson Controls holds periodic "Straight Talk" orientation sessions in key cities throughout the United States. At these meetings with potential diversity vendors, the company's supplier diversity & business development team and procurement personnel explain the pre-qualification process and review active purchasing plans. Straight Talk sessions are free of charge.

The pre-qualification process is reviewed, along with active purchasing plans. Vendors with products and services that are potentially suitable for Johnson Controls are asked to complete a vendor profile. Vendor profiles are delivered to decision-makers for consideration on current and future projects.

Upcoming Straight Talk Webinars:

Jan. 26, 2-3 p.m. EST
Feb 23, 2-3 p.m. EST
Mar. 30, 2-3 p.m. EST
Apr. 27, 2-3 p.m. EST
May. 25, 2-3 p.m. EST
Jun. 29, 2-3 p.m. EST
Jul. 27, 2-3 p.m. EST
Aug. 31, 2-3 p.m. EST
Sep. 28, 2-3 p.m. EST
Oct. 26, 2-3 p.m. EST
Dec. 1, 2-3 p.m. EST

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