Tere ki Tai: Navigating the tides of supplier diversity
Increase your impact with Tere ki Tai – a buyer’s guide to becoming global leaders in supplier diversity.
Tere ki Tai, meaning “traversing the tides,” is Amotai’s buyer maturity matrix.
Designed to support organisations at every stage of their supplier diversity journey, this framework provides actionable insights to strengthen your procurement practices and drive meaningful change.
Inspired by the courage and strategy of traditional waka navigation, Tere ki Tai offers a clear path forward, helping your organisation move from initial steps to becoming a leader in supplier diversity.
How does Tere ki Tai work?
Begin your journey with our self-assessment survey. The survey measures your organisation’s current practices and assigns one of six tide levels.
Once you complete the survey, you’ll receive a tailored report detailing your organisation’s strengths, areas for improvement, and practical recommendations to elevate your practices.
Collaborate with Amotai’s Supplier Diversity Leads to develop a customised roadmap that aligns with your goals and sets clear steps for progress.
Ngā pou o Tere ki Tai: The pillars of supplier diversity
To successfully navigate supplier diversity, organisations need clear goals, strong systems, and intentional action. The Tere ki Tai pillars provide a structured approach, helping buyers embed best practices into their procurement strategies.
Supplier diversity is about intentional spending with diverse suppliers. But gauging organisational progress in supplier diversity can be a challenge. How do we effectively track and increase expenditure with diverse suppliers over time?
Supplier diversity success hinges on more than just good intentions; it requires dedicated champions, clearly defined roles, unwavering leadership commitment, and inclusive recruitment strategies.
Procurement is more than just buying goods and services; it has the potential to drive significant broader outcomes.
A key part of an organisation’s success in supplier diversity depends on its knowledge, understanding, and education efforts.
Supplier diversity shouldn’t be relegated to an afterthought or side project—it should take centre stage.
A foundation for practice in supplier diversity.
Tere ki Tai empowers you with the knowledge and language to communicate the ways in which you’re positively impacting Māori and Pasifika businesses and communities.
It supports you to understand what steps are required to level up your supplier diversity capabilities, shows you what good looks like and how to get there.
Tere ki Tai helps organisations to:
- Assess their supplier diversity maturity and develop a plan to improve
- Understand key indicators and metrics to measure and track
- Understand what world class supplier diversity looks like
- Benchmark against other organisations
- Enhance accountability
- Ultimately, increase spend with Māori and Pasifika businesses
- By setting a high-quality standard for all, Tere ki Tai will strategically drive supplier diversity forward.
Ready to start your journey?
Let’s start your journey towards meaningful change in procurement – complete the Tere ki Tai assessment and begin navigating the tides of change today.
Reach out to our Supplier Diversity Leads to learn more or begin your assessment process.