REDMOND, Wash., May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp.
on Wednesday announced the recipients of the 2015 Microsoft
Supplier Program (MSP) Excellence Awards. The MSP Excellence Awards
recognize superior performance, exemplary service and innovation by
suppliers that demonstrate what it means to be a preferred supplier
at Microsoft. The purpose of the MSP is to build long-term
relationships with a select group of strategic suppliers that
create long-term value for Microsoft.
Winners of the 2015 MSP Excellence Awards were nominated by
employees of Microsoft in various business units, MSP suppliers and
Microsoft Procurement Professionals. An extensive panel of
Microsoft employees and external judges selects all final
awardees.
Award winners were based on excellence in a number of areas,
including quality, value, service and innovation. Winners were
announced during the 13th Annual MSP Summit on Microsoft's main
corporate campus in Redmond,
Wash.
"I am very pleased to recognize this year's Supplier Program
Excellence Award winners for their outstanding performance," said
Mike Simms, general manager and
chief procurement officer at Microsoft. "Every year our suppliers
continue to impress us with their commitment to excellence,
innovation and collaboration. The award recipients delivered
high-impact results and contributed to the success of Microsoft. On
behalf of Microsoft, I want to thank the award winners for their
significant contributions and partnership and also acknowledge all
of the nominees."
Winners were announced in three categories: Supplier Diversity,
Responsible Sourcing Leadership (Bridging the Opportunity Divide,
Climate Performance and Impact Sourcing), and MSP Supplier of the
Year.
MSP Supplier Advisory Board
Every year, Microsoft leverages the services of thousands of
third-party suppliers. The MSP was created more than 13 years ago
as a methodology focused on supplier management to foster a strong
supplier community. It would be difficult to do that without input
from the suppliers that make up that community. For the first time
since its inception in 2012, Microsoft would like to acknowledge
and thank the 24 companies that make up the MSP Supplier Advisory
Board.
The MSP Supplier Advisory Board's charter is to serve as the
informed voice of the supplier to Microsoft to enable long-term,
mutually beneficial partnerships.
Without the dedication and time commitment from these companies,
the Microsoft Supplier Program would not be what it is today.
Microsoft would like to thank the following:
Accenture
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Arvato
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Assembly
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BeyondSoft
Corp.
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Caiman
Consulting
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CBRE
Inc.
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Ciber
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CompuCom
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CRG Events
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Freeman
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GA Creative
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HelloWorld Inc.
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HP
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InfoSys Ltd.
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Intergen
Ltd.
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iSoftStone
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Metia
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Moravia
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RUN
Studios
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Staples
Inc.
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Stewart
Transportation
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Tata Consultancy
Services Ltd.
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TEKsystems
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Zones Inc. — recipient of the 2015 Supplier Diversity
Award
Zones manages hosted product catalogs in 32 company codes across
Canada, Europe and India. Zones also manages strategic partners
in the Latin America and
Asia-Pacific regions in support of
its global enterprise client base.
Zones is one of the fastest-growing IT solutions providers on
the market today. It is highly focused on ensuring customers'
successes as it works to tackle their most pressing IT challenges.
Zones is a global organization with offices or strategic
partnerships established in over 60 countries and growing.
Zones was integral to the launch of Microsoft Surface Pro 3
products for Microsoft's internal Cost per Head hardware
procurement. On May 20, 2014,
Microsoft announced the launch of the newest member of the Surface
family of products, the Surface Pro 3.
Zones has been providing significant savings to Microsoft over
the past five-plus years, supplying Third Party Peripherals,
Consumer IT Hardware standards, and nonstandard hardware to
Microsoft.
Zones captured cost savings of 25 percent of applicable spend in
the U.S. for Microsoft's 2014 fiscal year. Over the first half of
FY15, U.S. savings are tracking at 53 percent.
Sutherland Global Services — recipient of the 2015
Responsible Sourcing – Bridging the Opportunity Divide Leadership
Award
Sutherland Global Services is a global provider of business
process and technology management services. It employs more than
36,000 employees and has been in business since 1986. For more than
a decade, Sutherland has been providing Microsoft with
mission-critical customer management and back-office services under
several longstanding, performance-driven engagements. With nearly
60 operational centers across the world, Sutherland continues to
grow. In 2014, Sutherland formed the first foundation dedicated to
the advancement of youth worldwide. The Sutherland Foundation for
Education and Enrichment actively supports and respects the
protection of internationally proclaimed human rights and the
advancement of youth in technology. The Sutherland Foundation
stands for the creation of sustainable workforces, the abolition of
child labor and the elimination of discrimination, and it stands
against corruption in any and all forms. Further, the Sutherland
Foundation supports and undertakes initiatives to promote greater
environmental responsibility.
Sutherland was recognized by Microsoft at its 2015 annual Global
Supplier Conference for achieving the milestone of training more
than 30,000 disadvantaged learners through Microsoft YouthSpark
Community Technology Centers. The judges for the award were
"impressed with Sutherland's management commitment applied to a
multigeographic program with very significant, measured impact that
sets a high bar for other companies."
The following were the Bridging the Opportunity Divide
Leadership Award judges:
- Brian O'Kennedy, CEO of
Clearstream Solutions and Steering Committee member at Verego
- Chris Worman, senior director of
Global Media at TechSoup Global
- Jo Aggarwal, senior advisor at
Silatech
- Jeffrey Avina, lead manager of
Citizenship for Middle East and
Africa at Microsoft
- Peter Shiras, executive vice
president of Business Development at International Youth
Foundation
Akamai Technologies — recipient of the 2015 Responsible
Sourcing – Climate Performance Leadership award
Akamai is a cloud services provider dedicated to helping
companies provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any
device, anywhere. Akamai is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., has more than 5,100
employees worldwide and generated $1.96
billion in revenue in 2014. With more than 170,000 servers
in 102 countries and over 1,300 networks, Akamai has deployed the
most pervasive cloud-optimization platform. Akamai delivers between
15 and 30 percent of all Web traffic. It delivers daily Web traffic
reaching more than 25 terabits per second (Tbps). Eighty-five
percent of the world's Internet users are within a single "network
hop" of an Akamai server. Akamai delivers more than 2 trillion
daily Internet transactions. Akamai has a relationship with
Microsoft dating back to 1999, and the partnership has grown to
where Akamai now provides over 30 cloud-based services to more than
125 Microsoft groups.
In 2014 Akamai made significant strides with its climate change
management strategy and mitigation, which directly translates into
long-term reduced energy consumption and carbon footprints for
Microsoft. The judges for the award were "impressed with Akamai's
commitment to climate risk management and the progress it has made
on its 30 percent year-on-year goal to reduce energy and greenhouse
gas intensity relative to network traffic, which it has largely
achieved with innovations it will publicly share in peer
forums."
The following were Climate Performance Leadership Award
judges:
- Betty Cremmins, senior manager
of Supply Chain at CDP
- Timothy D. Juliani, director of
Corporate Engagement at the Center for Climate and Energy
Solutions
- TJ DiCaprio, senior director of Environmental Sustainability at
Microsoft
- Michael Mondshine, vice
president of Sustainability and Energy at WSP
- Susan Wickwire, chief of the
Energy Supply and Industry Branch at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Compass Group PLC — recipient of the 2015 Responsible
Sourcing – Impact Sourcing Leadership Award
Headquartered in Charlotte,
N.C., Compass Group North America leads the industry in food
service management and support services. Compass Group North
America serves clients such as IBM, United Technologies Corp., SAP,
Louisiana State University,
Texas A&M University and
District of Columbia Public
Schools. Compass Group provides catering to special events such as
the U.S. Open and the Academy Awards. Compass Group was the
official catering services supplier for the 2002 Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake
City. Compass partnered with Microsoft's Real Estate &
Facilities group, establishing a leadership position with respect
to the recruitment, onboarding and continued placement of
associates with disabilities. Compass was awarded Supplier of the
Year and Technology Award for 2009. Compass has also won awards
such as the William O. Ellison
Award, the Governor's Employee Award, and the Community Employment
Alliance's 2014 Community Innovation Award.
In 2014 Compass Group enabled 91 associates with disabilities,
representing 8 percent of all associates at Microsoft, to
experience a smooth and positive transition into Microsoft's campus
services work environment. The judges for the award were "impressed
with Compass Group's local stakeholder engagement coupled with a
vision and model to scale that can be replicated by other
companies."
The following are Impact Sourcing Leadership Award judges:
- Eric Simonson, managing partner
for Research at Everest Group
- Gloria La Cava, coordinator for
the Middle East and North Africa
Youth Program at The World Bank
- Craig Osborne, engineering
manager of the Open Solutions Group at Microsoft
- Rene Yoakum, general manager of
Global Consumer Support at Microsoft
- Jane Hwang, chief operating
officer at Social Accountability International
- Mamadou Biteye, managing
director, Africa at The
Rockefeller Foundation
Wipro Ltd. — recipient of the 2015 Supplier of the Year
Award
Wipro is a global leader in providing IT services, outsourced
R&D, infrastructure services, business process services and
business consulting. Across more than 16 geographies, Wipro
specializes in IT consulting, product engineering services,
business process outsourcing, cloud services and eco energy, to
name a few.
Wipro services clients from more than 72 centers, located in 59
countries, employing 99 nationalities. Wipro is headquartered in
Bangalore, India, and around 60
percent of its people are located across its development centers in
India, including Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi and Bhubaneswar.
Wipro is globally recognized for its innovative approach toward
delivering business value and its commitment to sustainability.
Wipro champions optimized utilization of natural resources, capital
and talent. Today it is a trusted partner of choice for global
businesses looking to differentiate at the front and standardize at
the core through technology interventions.
Wipro demonstrated excellence at Microsoft across multiple
disciplines including Process Transformation (reducing time for
development, human interaction and optimizing costs by tearing down
deployments that are no longer needed), Product Quality Improvement
(significantly reduced cycle times, cost savings, quality assurance
rates exceeding expectations and increasing test efficiency by 110
percent), and Cost Optimization Efficiency Improvement and
Automation (eliminated post-release issues, improved real-time
end-user coverage and elevated product quality assurance). Through
Wipro's long history and broad engagement with Microsoft, it has
repeatedly shown that it strives for excellence in everything it
does for Microsoft. Microsoft would like to take this opportunity
to acknowledge our Supplier of the Year award recipient Wipro
Technologies.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide
leader in software, services, solutions and devices that help
people and businesses realize their full potential.
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