With over $4 billion in spending on MWBE business, Ford Motor Company takes their responsibilities towards minorities and small businesses extremely seriously. N. Marcella McCullough has been instrumental in building the WebRing within Ford. This innovative tool allows the Ford team the ability to easily identify suppliers in commodities, site location, geographical locations and categories as well as for government classifications. The data base has over 400 certified suppliers and has backroom capability data for a two million supplier search.

Marcella champions Ford Motor Company’s Project One Module for the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council. This is an initiative to grow minority business enterprises to compete for larger corporate contracts. Some of the tasks undertaken by the Supplier Development Council include educating suppliers through the use of guest speakers. These speakers discuss a variety of topics and subjects related to increasing their diversity and reach. Marcella is also responsible for the creation of a Tier 2 forum review which has been benchmarked by other OEM suppliers.

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