Smarter Supplier Diversity Tracking
Drive Inclusive Growth with STARS’ Supplier Diversity Tools & Software
Empower your procurement strategy with supplier diversity management software that helps track, manage, and grow diverse supplier participation. Ensure compliance, foster innovation, and deliver measurable impact.
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What, Why, How
Smarter Supplier Diversity, Stronger Supply Chains
STARS’ supplier diversity management software enables organizations to identify, onboard, and monitor diverse suppliers. The platform simplifies compliance reporting, supports supplier engagement, and strengthens supply chain resilience.
What is Supplier Diversity?
Supplier diversity is the integration of minority-owned, women-owned, underrepresented group-owned, and small businesses into procurement. With supplier diversity software, companies can build inclusive supply chains that drive innovation and ensure compliance. It also helps organizations track diverse supplier participation and strengthen long-term sourcing strategies.
Why Is Supplier Diversity Important?
Supplier diversity supports innovation and sustainable growth by bringing new perspectives into the supply chain. It also strengthens resilience through partnerships with multiple suppliers, reducing dependency and ensuring business continuity. In addition, it builds credibility and strengthens communities by supporting diverse businesses and creating employment opportunities.
How Does STARS Solve the Problem?
STARS’ supplier diversity software provides automation, analytics, and real-time reporting to track supplier diversity. It helps companies discover and engage new and small businesses, fosters stronger supplier relationships, ensures accurate reporting, and drives measurable growth in diverse spend. STARS also supports scalable partnerships across procurement programs.
Data That Drives
Trusted Supplier Diversity Partner
Compliance Accuracy
Spend Analyzed
Enterprise Clients Across Industries
Years of Procurement and Supplier Diversity Expertise
Full-Service Supplier Diversity Platform
Track, Report, and Grow with Supplier Diversity Management Software
Tailored Workflow Automation
Configure forms, approval flows, and data fields to match your processes. Ensure faster onboarding, stronger compliance, and consistent supplier data across teams.
Branding and Customization
Create fully branded, client-specific portals tailored to your workflows. Deliver a consistent, professional experience for suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Reports Builder
Generate unlimited reports with intuitive filters and visual dashboards. Analyze supplier data quickly and export insights without technical expertise.
Customer Support Excellence
Access responsive support through an integrated help center. Benefit from training resources, documentation, and embedded technical assistance.
Integration with ERP & Procurement Systems
Seamlessly connect with SAP, Oracle, Coupa, and other platforms. Streamline workflows, improve data accuracy, and maintain system-wide alignment.
AI-Powered Search Engagement
Use AI-driven search to discover and connect with verified suppliers. Leverage analytics and natural language processing to improve supplier matching.
Concierge Services
Work with dedicated support and client success teams for guided onboarding. Receive personalized assistance across certification, navigation, and workflow optimization.
Secure Supplier Portal
Provide secure, branded portals with role-based access controls. Protect supplier data, ensure compliance, and enable safe procurement collaboration.
STARS Modules – Empowering Smarter, More Inclusive Procurement
Transform Your Supplier Diversity and Engagement Strategy with Modular Tools Built for Scale, Insight, and Impact.
Supplier Registration and Vetting
STARS provides a fully configurable supplier registration experience that supports both US and international suppliers. With dynamic forms, embedded ROI tracking, and automated engagement, organizations can increase supplier participation and impact while ensuring suppliers are vetted before buyer engagement.
Engagement Modules
Improve supplier engagement rates with built-in capabilities that automate outreach and integrate seamlessly into existing workflows. Features such as supplier targeting, unlimited email campaigns, RFIs, surveys, and automated notifications keep suppliers active and engaged.
ESG and Supplier Risk Reporting
This module enables organizations to assess suppliers based on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics as well as associated risk indicators. It provides visibility into supplier compliance, sustainability practices, and ethical standards key for modern procurement and ESG disclosures.
External Supplier Locator
Access and engage more than one million certified suppliers through the integrated STARS database. With AI-powered search and connections to national certification directories, clients can expand sourcing efforts and discover new suppliers across regions and categories.
Business Card Scanner
Capture supplier information instantly at events and conferences with STARS’ mobile-friendly business card scanner. The tool automatically digitizes data, syncs with engagement modules, and ties into ROI tracking to measure event-driven outreach.
SBE Sourcing Concierge
The STARS Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Sourcing Concierge acts as an extension of your procurement team. This hands-on service identifies, vets, and engages certified small, diverse, and local suppliers to deliver curated and qualified vendor lists for hard-to-source categories.
Engagement Concierge
This white-glove service supplements your outreach efforts with manual contact enrichment and personalized supplier follow-up. It ensures optimal coverage, high response rates, and increased supplier registration completion.
Tier 1 Supplier and Spend Analytics
Centralize and manage Tier 1 supplier data, scrubbed spend files, and reporting in one secure environment. Built for scale, this module supports high volumes of data with automated reporting, robust integrations, and flexible analysis tools.
File Based Integration
STARS enables secure file-based data exchange for organizations preferring flat-file workflows over APIs. It supports CSV, Excel, and fixed-width formats with flexible mapping, automated transfers, and validation tools, providing an efficient solution for scheduled reporting and data enrichment.
Custom Reports
STARS offers custom reports designed by analysts to address specific client goals and complex reporting needs. These reports are aligned with client KPIs, ESG requirements, and internal metrics, making them ideal for contract tracking, performance reviews, and internal dashboards.
Data Enrichment
Enhance supplier data quality with AI-driven and manual cleaning processes that ensure accuracy and completeness. STARS delivers up to 98% match accuracy for Platinum tier and 90% for gold tier, with 100% verification on government certifications. The first 1,000 records are free for gold clients, and quarterly refreshes with volume-based discounts keep supplier information current and reliable.
Tier 2 Reporting
Collect Tier 2 spend data from your prime suppliers in a secure and scalable portal. With built-in deadline tracking, compliance reminders, and branded access, this module ensures accurate reporting of indirect supplier impact.
Tier 2 Concierge
STARS provides a hands-on service that helps manage Tier 1 suppliers and ensures they submit Tier 2 reports on time. The team sends email and phone reminders, tracks deadlines, updates supplier details, and follows a customized outreach calendar to improve response rates and reduce the effort needed from your internal team.
Economic Impact Reports
The Economic Impact Report showcases your small business’s contribution to the economy and diversity landscape using national-level data. It highlights key metrics such as job creation, tax impact, and industry insights, supported by visuals like heatmaps, charts, and regional analyses. The report includes a 20-category diversity breakdown and helps validate community impact and ROI.
Benchmarking Report
Evaluate your supplier diversity program’s performance over time and against industry peers to uncover trends and improvement opportunities. The report includes year-over-year supplier performance comparisons, optional industry benchmarking, and separate analyses for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data.
Single Sign On (SSO)
STARS integrates with your organization’s identity provider to enable secure and seamless access through Single Sign-On. It supports SAML 2.0 and major providers such as Okta and Azure AD, reducing login friction for users while improving access security and management efficiency.
Reporting Concierge
STARS provides hands-on assistance to prepare reports, clean supplier profiles, and update spend data on your behalf, making it ideal for quarterly refresh cycles. The service manages up to 500 customer portals per cycle, performs gap analysis with recommendations, and ensures all profiles and reports are accurate, complete, and submitted on time. Monthly update options are also available at an additional cost.
Data Scrubbing
STARS eliminates duplicate records, corrects inaccuracies, and enriches data by adding missing details such as certifications, diversity status, and spend information. The platform also maintains a historical record of diversity data over time, enhancing data integrity, ensuring consistent reporting, and increasing overall efficiency while minimizing manual effort.
Work Smarter, Diversify Better
Transform Procurement with Supplier Diversity Software
Data Scrubbing & Enrichment
Ensure Clean, Complete, and Actionable Supplier Data
STARS removes duplicates, corrects errors, and adds missing details such as certifications, diversity status, and spend data. The platform also tracks diversity history over time, improving data integrity, reporting consistency, and overall efficiency while reducing manual effort.
- STARS combines AI-driven tools, open web searches, and manual quality assurance to continuously verify and update supplier data accuracy.
- Reduces manual effort through automation
- Delivers reliable, actionable supplier insights tailored to your needs
External Supplier Locator
Discover and Engage Verified Diverse Suppliers with Ease
The External Supplier Locator in STARS helps procurement teams worldwide identify and connect with qualified small and diverse businesses. It consolidates multiple global databases and enhances searches using AI and Open Web Search to find verified suppliers across regions and categories. With automated vetting and accurate supplier profiles, it simplifies global sourcing and expands access to diverse and sustainable vendors.
- Simplifies supplier search and discovery using AI & Open Web Search
- The Google Search of diverse, small and local suppliers
- Automates vetting and outreach for reliable sourcing
Supplier Registration
Streamline Supplier Onboarding with Accurate, Compliant Data
Supplier registration in STARS simplifies onboarding by allowing suppliers to self-register through a client-branded portal. The platform automates validations, notifications, and workflows to collect accurate and compliant information. It also ensures high-quality participation and readiness for future engagement and reporting.
- Supplier Targeting & Engagement: Identify and connect with suppliers by category, region, or diversity classification.
- Supplier Vetting: Leverage a tailored pre-qualification framework designed to ensure seamless compliance
- Configurable Workflows: Flexible data capture and review processes tailored to each organization’s procurement policies.
Tier 1 & Tier 2 Spend Analytics
STARS Delivers a Unified View of Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier spend
Improving reporting accuracy, compliance, and inclusion tracking. It integrates with ERP, AP, and sourcing systems to automate data extraction and enrichment for reliable insights. With its flexible report builder, clients can create unlimited custom reports and dashboards, while anomaly detection delivers actionable insights that enhance transparency and decision-making across the supply chain.
- Comprehensive Spend Tracking: Monitors and analyzes total supplier spend across all tiers.
- Performance and Inclusion Insights: Identifies performance trends and diversity or inclusion opportunities.
- Automated Compliance and Reporting: Enhances governance with configurable workflows and audit-ready reports.
Small Business Empowerment
How STARS Helps Small Businesses?
Increases Supplier Visibility
Reduces Time to Engagement
Small Supplier Sourcing Strategies
Match with Relevant Contracts
Data-Driven Qualifications
Track Impact and Success
Client Success Stories
See What Our Clients Say
One of the most impressive aspects of our collaboration is your willingness to customize the systems and solutions to perfectly align with the unique needs of our organization.
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The VIVA Team listens to customer feedback and makes needed adjustments. Their support team provides very quick responses. This level of customer service isn’t often experienced.
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