Supplier Relationships
For suppliers and those interested in pursuing a business relationship with Allstate, we provide clear guidelines through our Sourcing and Procurement Solutions department. This is our centralized sourcing department, which has a mission to leverage the company’s purchasing power to ensure that the highest quality of goods and services are available at the most cost-effective price.
We actively pursue and use minority- and female-owned suppliers to broaden our innovation and creativity. When we do business with these companies, we’re creating jobs and opportunities to help build the future marketplace. We hold ourselves accountable for ensuring that minority-owned companies compete for our business. In addition, we require all suppliers we do business with to report their levels of diversity spending to us.
Allstate is always looking for new ways to deliver a great customer experience at a competitive price. In some cases, outsourcing is a viable option to help us achieve that goal. Today, technology makes it possible for Allstate and other U.S. companies to use skilled workers around the country and the world to assist with select processes and operations that help deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Supplier Expectations and Requirements
To encourage compliance with Allstate requirements and ethical business practices, Allstate updated its Supplier Expectations and Requirements document in September 2007. Allstate’s relationships with our suppliers and their representatives are based on the principle of fair and honest dealings at all times and in all ways. Allstate specifically expects its suppliers to extend the same principle of fair and honest dealings to all others with whom they do business, including Allstate customers, employees, subcontractors and other third parties.