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Benefits for Suppliers

Enterprise Suppliers
Begin or expand your diversity program, and easily shareyour diverse spend with current and prospective customers.
Small Business Suppliers
Self-certify as a small business in TealBook and access our vibrant community of buyers searching for new supplier relationships.
Midsize Suppliers
Assert yourself as a viable competitor. Be more visible in searches, win more business, and foster top line
Diverse Suppliers
Self-certify as a diverse business, with TealBook’s accredited self-certification program, and display these certificates on your supplier profile.
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Welcome Diverse Business Partner!

Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc. (Southern Star) believes that our internal business environment should reflect the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We also value this belief in the context of supplier and supplier diversity.  We believe that having a diverse, equitable, and inclusive supply chain aligns with our Core Values and strengthens our supplier base to provide better continuity of service. It fosters more internal and external collaboration, will further enable our competitive advantage, and position the company for growth and innovation, as we operate in a more diverse and global marketplace.

To enhance our supplier diversity certification efforts, Southern Star has partnered with TealBook, our preferred partner for Supplier Diversity Data. Your company may qualify as Diverse in one or more of the diversity categories recognized by Southern Star (Small Business, Woman, Minority, Veteran, Disabled Veteran, Disabled, HUB Zone, and LGBTQ).

If you qualify under any of the categories above, Southern Star’s Supply Chain Services Team strongly encourages you to sign up with and log into TealBook, and to upload your Diversity Certification or Self Certify by November 13, 2023. Please follow the instructions below.

William G. Wathen, Director, Supply Chain Services
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Why Join TealBook?

TealBook's AI and ML has already created a profile for your businesses, and it is up to 70% complete. By creating a TealBook account and claiming your profile, you can appear in up to 55% more buyer searches. 

TealBook also gives suppliers the opportunity to self-certify as small, diverse, or sustainable businesses. TealBook’s supplier self-certification provides a free alternative to daunting and expensive certification programs. Suppliers can create and maintain their certification in less than 15 minutes a year, while still meeting the requirements for certification audits. Self-certifying in TealBook can help your customers identify if their spend with you is qualified diverse spend. It also makes you more competitive and gives you an opportunity to win business from organizations looking to do business with small and diverse businesses. 

In addition to self-certification, TealBook offers several avenues for suppliers to increase their attractiveness to buyers, including support for participating in a Tier 2 program, and our sustainability survey which allows suppliers to share information about their sustainability practices with buyers.

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About TealBook

TealBook is the leading supplier data foundation that autonomously maintains supplier master data, powers e-procurement technology, drives supplier compliance, and enables supplier performance.

Using AI and ML, TealBook gathers, predicts, and refines supplier data to build the world’s most comprehensive supplier intelligence. When there are supply chain disruptions, companies leverage TealBook to identify emergency sourcing options and ensure supply continuity; when it’s business as usual, they use TealBook’s technology to unleash full procurement excellence.

TealBook has been adopted by Fortune 100 companies and is the winner of many prestigious awards, including being named one of the Spend Matters 50 Vendors to Know in 2021, and part of the ProcureTech Top 100. For more information, visit www.tealbook.com.

How to Upload a Diversity Certification

1. Sign up for a free TealBook account with your email, log in, and navigate to your Profile page.
2. Navigate to the Qualifications section, and in the Add a Certification drop down menu, select Diversity.
4. From the Name of Certification drop down menu, select the appropriate Certification Name.
5. Upload the appropriate certificate, and enter the certification expiration date and certificate number.
3. Under Certification Agency, select one of the available agencies. If the Certification Agency is not available, select Other, and manually type in the Agency Name.
6. To conclude the process, check the supplier verification box, and click Add. This process can be replicated multiple times, one for each unique certificate you would like to upload. 

How to Self Certify

1. Sign up for a free TealBook account with your email, log in, and navigate to your Profile page.
2. Navigate to the Qualifications section, and in the Add a Certification drop down menu, select Diversity.
5. Fill in additional details including your certifying location (out of locations currently listed on your Supplier Profile), and the certification subtype (if applicable).
3. Under Certification Agency, select Self Certify.
4. From the Name of Certification drop down menu, select the appropriate Certification Name.
6. Verify that the certified information is correct, and then click the Add button. Once you have clicked Add, you will see a link to a downloadable certificate generated by TealBook.