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NTT GLOBAL SOURCING INC .
Community impact
Supporting local partners is central to the One NTT Vision
NTT is a global conglomerate , but remaining local and supporting the communities it works in is central to the One NTT Vision . Arvind Kumar , Global VP of Indirects at NTT Global Sourcing shares more :
“ I think it ' s our responsibility as a strategic sourcing arm of a company to maximize the benefit for everybody in the supply chain ,” says Kumar . " We do that by making sure the vision and mission for a company gets translated to everybody that ' s in that combined team , whether internally or externally , because in many cases these are an extension of NTT .
At the same time , we must keep a focus on impacting the community .
“ I strongly believe when you do projects in my space , in real estate , we should always look to local partners , local players who are in the community , because they need a lot of help through COVID . It ’ s a combination of taking the big boys that we work with and integrating it with the smaller partners in the community that are in a five , 10 , 20-mile radius of our office . We want to bring value to them and make sure that they ' re sustainable , make sure they get through this hurdle , and give them an opportunity to truly live and breathe . At NTT these are the missions and values we stand by , the One NTT Vision , and that touches all these elements as a company .”
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