Supply Chain Development

From the launch of our first supplier development program in Sakhalin, Russia in the mid-1990s, CDC Development Solutions knew that we had designed a highly effective and replicable tool. Our local content methodology was designed to maximize opportunities for indigenous businesses to contract with large corporations, keeping more jobs and money in-country. We quickly learned that the same tool was equally effective at improving the larger corporations’ business performance and bottom line - a clear win-win.

More than a decade after the first Sakhalin program, CDC Development Solutions is now known as a leader in supply chain development across an array of industries. We provide business training, technical assistance, and other capacity building tools that address critical market, financial, and technical constraints and enable MSMEs to integrate their products and services into supply chains.

The tools that we use include our signature Supplier Training Initiative™ methodology for local content development, and our Regional Market Linkages model.

With a range of experiences - including localizing supply chains for the oil industry in Azerbaijan and Russia, linking small businesses to mining sector procurement opportunities in Guatemala and Guinea, building the capacity of enterprises along the agribusiness value chain in Jamaica, and identification and training of local oil and gas suppliers in Equatorial Guinea and Angola - our solutions for supply chain development capitalize upon key economic drivers in emerging markets to propel SME expansion.

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