SCE’s Spending With Diverse Suppliers Creates More Than 19,000 Jobs
ROSEMEAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last year, Southern California Edison recorded
“Through our four decades of partnering with diverse firms, we know our supplier diversity and inclusion activities have a profound impact beyond our operations,” said Kevin Payne, SCE president and CEO. “Diverse perspectives make businesses, including ours, more competitive and sustainable, leading to more jobs and a boost to local communities. Further, many of these businesses ‘pay it forward’ by hiring and mentoring other diverse firms or providing support to organizations and communities.”
Importantly, SCE provides technical assistance and guidance that help minority-, women-, disabled veteran- and LGBT-owned businesses develop capabilities that will let them meet the company’s specific demands.
“We are confident this work, aimed to improve the ability of diverse suppliers to meet our needs, is an investment that will yield positive results for the businesses and improve our overall Greenlining scores in the future,” Payne said.
The report states that SCE’s
“SCE makes an outsized economic impact in the Western U.S. through its purchases,” said Ashlee Nelson, a vice president at supplier.io. “SCE's purchases of leading-edge equipment from manufacturing firms bolsters the California economy through jobs for California's highly skilled workforce.”
For more information, including details of the report’s methodology, see the Supplier Diversity Economic Impact Report.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE: EIX) company, Southern California Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and Southern California.