Strategic Partnerships at CDW

We invest time building partnerships with our strategic partners and in working side-by-side with them to serve our customers.

Successful strategic partnerships seek to provide all suppliers access to purchasing opportunities, but it also promotes all supplier’s participation reflective of the community and customers; optimizes your supply chain; creates revenue, jobs and wages; builds stronger communities; unleashes economic growth and raises the competition.

How We're Doing: CDW's Business Diversity Growth Story

In 2007, when we formalized our Supplier Diversity Program, CDW facilitated around $359 million of spending with small and minority-owned businesses. In 2022, that figure grew to $3.6 billion, our highest annual expenditure to date

It means our total spending with our diverse partners has now reached more than $25 billion while the number of them with whom we work also continues to rise year on year, now standing at over 1,400.

Read CDW’s 2022 Economic Impact Report (PDF) →

Read the CDW 2022 Economic Impact Report PDF

Email our team to learn more about CDW's Business Diversity Program.

$1.9 Billion

Wages Supported

INCOMES

$6.9 Billion

Production Impact

PRODUCTION

$830 Million

Additional Revenue

TAXES

32,000

Jobs Supported

JOBS

Become a Strategic Partner

As a business owner, you have goals for growing and developing your company, and becoming a strategic partner to a Fortune 500 company. Let’s talk.

Awards & Recognition

Alongside our membership of the Billion Dollar Roundtable, we actively support a variety of organizations and events that focus on identifying opportunities for small and diverse businesses to thrive and grow.

We’re also proud to have been recognized for diversity excellence by a number of leading organizations and publications dedicated to providing greater representation, employment and economic advancement for minority, women, veteran and LGBTQ+ communities.