Florida Minority Supplier Development Council

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West Coast Chapter Meeting
September 18, 2008 (8:00 am - 11:59 pm)
(West Coast) Host by: Tampa Electric Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tampa, Florida.

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About Us

History of Organization

Thirteen corporations in Central Florida founded the privately funded Central-Space Coast Minority Purchasing Council in 1980. The C-SCMPC changed its name to the Greater Florida Minority Development Council (GFMDC), after merging with the Florida West Coast Minority Purchasing Council and starting a chapter in Jacksonville. The first Executive Director was also hired in 1986. The name of the Council was changed to the National Minority Supplier Development Council of Florida, Inc., in 1992. Our name changed again in 2002 to the Florida Minority Supplier Development Council (FMSDC).

The mission of the FMSDC is to provide a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned business enterprises. Now in our 20th year, our non-profit corporation is the premiere networking organization for minority businesses in Florida.

We are responsible for starting MBE Programs at the City of Orlando, Orange County, the State of Florida and Orange County Public Schools. We started and developed the Florida Black Business Investment Fund. We have also started MBE programs at Florida private sector firms and helped hundreds of firms in Florida enhance their Supplier Diversity efforts leading to billions of dollars of procurement dollars to MBE's.

We are affiliated with 39 regional councils throughout the country matching more than 15,000 certified MBEs with over 3,500 corporate members.

Challenge

Keeping up with technology is our greatest challenge. Receiving and distributing information in an expedient and efficient manner is mandatory to keep up with corporate purchasing trends. Today our software and hardware are state of the art. We were the Council rated number one in technology by a survey conducted by NMSDC, Inc.

Coming from a corporate environment, the FMSDC President, Malik Ali, understands the challenges that face purchasing managers. The FMSDC is a corporate member organization, and our primary objective is to help corporations with their supplier diversity efforts. Our minority trade fair is one of the best in America. Every year we offer updated techniques and tools to do business in an ever changing, challenging environment. This year’s trade fair featured “Purchasing Connection”, giving pre-matched buyers and sellers an opportunity to sit down together to make the link that can spur a business relationship. We implemented casual business dress for our fair over eight years ago. This helps break down barriers and forces us to deliver content in new and more effective means.

About our President

Malik was born in Harlem, New York and received a BS in Chemical Engineering. He then attended the Harvard Business School, all the while developing “Black Community Game,” working full-time as a Chemical Engineer at Polaroid and renovating a four family tenement. He graduated in 1979 with a Masters Degree in Business Administration, and putting further development of the board game aside, went to work at Nita Chemical in Nassau, The Bahamas, where he was a plant manager for the pharmaceutical company.

After a two-year stint at Martin-Marietta as a Senior Subcontract Manager, Ali went to work at The Walt Disney Company where he marked a milestone in his own career by putting the media giant on the supplier diversity map. He developed the company’s minority business program and implemented it across diverse areas, including motion pictures, consumer products, marketing and finance. While at Walt Disney, Ali became involved in the FMSDC and was its Chairman of the Board for 13 years, until 1997, when he became the Executive Director of the FMSDC.

Malik spent fourteen years at the Walt Disney Company as Director of MBE Programs and made the Disney program a world-class program, winning many local and national awards. Disney’s recognition program was recognized as the most unique and innovative in the country developing a Disney/MBE logo and merchandise line that set the standard for corporate/supplier diversity identity programs. Disney was the first company to computerize its minority business reporting and develop the process of categorizing and identification of MBE’s in its account payable file. The relationships that he developed at Disney with his counterparts at other companies allows Malik to provide a real value added service to MBE’s and Corporate members alike at the FMSDC.

Functions of the FMSDC:

· We are the only ISO 9001-2000 Certified Council in the NMSDC Network.

· We have the biggest MBE trade fair in the Southeast United States .

·         We have an award winning WEB site that includes our FMSDC Certified MBE online directory. ·         We offer Management/Buyer Training & Assistance by a President with over 15 years of
           Program Manager experience.
·         We assist companies and agencies without minority programs to develop them.

· We Identify sources of capital and financing for contracts/purchase orders.

· We provide specialized, process-driven sourcing that targets your exact sourcing requirements. · We have a vast data-base to provide you with a nationwide selection of suppliers.

Quality Policy Statement
FMSDC management and Staff,
Are committed to implementing and maintaining,
A quality management system that provides our members,
With innovative products and services,
Which exceed their expectations.
We will continually improve our processes,
And the effectiveness of the quality management system,
To meet our goal of total customer satisfaction
Quality Manual 5.3