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Strategies for Improving Vendor Certification Programs
Contributors: Elena Hoffnagle, Maja Gray
Certifying categories of businesses can be an important step toward understanding where your contract spending is going, but how you implement your certification program will determine whether you succeed. If certification programs are burdensome and confusing, they can actually amplify existing challenges vendors face. In this quick read, you’ll learn about the benefits of certification programs, how to make your existing certification program less onerous for businesses, and best practices for setting up a new certification program or piggybacking off another existing certification.