REDMOND, Wash., May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 8, Microsoft Corp. announced the recipients
of the 2019 Microsoft Supplier Program (MSP) Excellence Awards. The
MSP Excellence Awards recognize excellence by Microsoft's top
suppliers in performance, relationship, value, reduced risk,
diversity, sustainability and impact sourcing. The MSP mission is
enabling a compliant, capable and competitive supply base to
deliver increasing value to Microsoft and its suppliers. Winners of
the 2019 MSP Excellence Awards were vetted by an award selection
committee including representatives from procurement, business
group stakeholders and external judges.
Winners were announced at the 2019 MSP Supplier Excellence
Awards ceremony at Microsoft on May 8,
2019, in Redmond,
Washington.
"Congratulations to all the MSP Excellence Award recipients and
finalists for your outstanding work," said Mike Simms, general manager and chief
procurement officer at Microsoft. "These awards represent your deep
commitment to delivering high-impact results contributing to the
success of Microsoft. Microsoft's Supplier of the Year winners,
Compass Group, Wiwynn, Nextant and AnRui
Digital, have collaborated with Microsoft to demonstrate
efficiency gains, strategic partnerships, innovation and risk
management. Amaxra and Sutherland Global have
created amazing opportunities for diverse and disadvantaged people
to succeed, and Tech Mahindra exhibited a huge commitment to
an aggressive set of absolute emissions reduction goals. On behalf
of Microsoft, I want to thank the award winners and all the
finalists for their significant contributions and
partnership."
Following are the 2019 winners, finalists and an overview of
their excellent service delivery.
MSP Supplier of the Year - Small category Winner: AnRui
Digital
Finalists: Bastion Effect, BES Events
AnRui leveraged its in-depth knowledge of Microsoft's products
and solutions to design and deliver training to users, technical
partners and developers, as well as facilitate hands-on lab
sessions. AnRui developed innovative solutions, such as a new
mobile app that enables Microsoft Partners to access Microsoft
learning and certification materials, to help broaden reach and
increase engagement and collaboration.
MSP Supplier of the Year - Medium category
Winner: Nextant
Finalists: Lenati, Upwork
Nextant has been a strategic partner and trusted advisor on a
range of topics by truly understanding Microsoft's business,
aligning with Microsoft priorities and taking feedback to improve.
Nextant consistently delivered amazing performance and savings
through automation and improved processes, while remaining flexible
and adaptable to the business needs. Nextant also helped scope and
build a power app that revolutionized the way Microsoft
communicates to the field, and helped reduce operational risk by
implementing business-critical quality assurance plans.
MSP Supplier of the Year - Large category
Co-Winner: Compass Group
Finalists: Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services
Compass consistently demonstrated strategic partnership to
identify solutions that delivered savings without compromising the
customer experience. Compass focused on customer service by
completing more than 10 capital projects over the seasonal holiday
closure to minimize Microsoft employee impact. Compass redesigned
its service response protocol using Microsoft technology to improve
its response time from 24 hours to one hour. Compass also strongly
delivered in alignment with Microsoft's Accessibility and
Sustainability values by developing a first-of-its-kind navigation
bar, allowing those with visual impairments to use the cashless
ordering/payment system and launching a zero-waste café pilot.
MSP Supplier of the Year - Large category
Co-Winner: Wiwynn
Wiwynn is a component developer and system integrator of cloud
servers for Microsoft, which has partnered with Microsoft on
strategic initiatives and consistently delivered a high level of
support. Wiwynn development support has been valuable in
helping Microsoft achieve time-to-market on new technologies and is
very supportive of Microsoft supply-chain initiatives. Wiwynn was
instrumental in ensuring that Microsoft was not affected by 2018
industrywide component shortages through proactive implementation
of a strategic buy process to ensure on-time delivery of Microsoft
servers. Wiwynn has made significant investments to
proactively mitigate risks by opening a new factory in Taiwan, increasing rack capacity in
China and opening a satellite
office in Redmond to support
Microsoft teams.
MSP Supplier Diversity Award Winner: Amaxra
Finalists: Accenture, Wimmer
Amaxra has been awarded the 2019 MSP Supplier Diversity Award
for being the supplier to make the most progress on diversity
values. Amaxra is a certified diverse business and a business
management and technology solutions firm. It was established in
2007 by Microsoft alumni Rosalyn
Arntzen. It successfully supported a number of projects
involving cultural and gender awareness, and community engagement.
As a supplier, Amaxra's ability to understand Microsoft's most
crucial business priorities, while reinforcing progress toward
diversity goals, is of significant value to Microsoft. Diversity is
the first of Amaxra's top six values. In its own words, "Diversity
leads the way. The workplace needs to be one where diverse
individuals (walks of life, experiences, situations, skills sets,
work styles and more) and diverse teams come together to drive best
contributions."
MSP Sustainability Award Winner: Tech Mahindra
Finalists: AT&T, Cisco and Infosys
Tech Mahindra was recognized for its leadership on climate
change. Tech Mahindra committed to an aggressive set of absolute
emissions-reduction goals, approved by the Science Based Targets
Initiative, that will result in emissions 50% below 2015-2016
levels by 2050. Tech Mahindra has undertaken a thoughtful and
comprehensive program to reduce Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3
emissions. To date, it has installed solar generation at its plants
in the Indian cities of Pune,
Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Noida and Chandigarh. Tech Mahindra
has developed a "Connected Solar Plants" solution using Microsoft
Azure, aligning with Microsoft's mission to help empower every
person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
Judges for the Sustainability Award were Betty Cremmins with CDP, Verena Radulovic with the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, Elizabeth
Willmott with the Microsoft Environmental team and
Michael Mondshine with
WSP.
MSP Impact Sourcing Award Winner: Sutherland
Global
Finalists: Compass Group, Hanson Consulting
Group
Sutherland was recognized for its leadership on helping their
employees achieve more by eliminating barriers to employment and
empowering individuals through Impact Sourcing. Sutherland
has the mission to impact one life or family for every person
employed by the company. Over the past 10 years, Sutherland's taken
a systems approach to inclusion through education intervention and
job opportunities for tens of thousands of individuals across the
globe. The company collaborates and shares with nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders to expand their impact.
Sutherland's model is the first of its kind to be used in a
commercial setting.
Judges for this award included Sara
Enright with Business for Social Responsibility - Global
Impact Sourcing Coalition, Mamadou
Biteye with the Rockefeller Foundation and Geoff Talbot with the Sourcing Industry
Group.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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