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 Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), founded in 1997, is the nation's leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to America's corporations.It also is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the United States. WBENC works to foster diversity in the world of commerce with programs and policies designed to expand opportunities and eliminate barriers in the marketplace for women business owners. WBENC works with representatives of corporations to encourage the utilization and expansion of supplier/vendor diversity programs.
Dedicated to enhancing opportunities for women's business enterprises, WBENC works in partnership with women's business organizations located throughout the country to provide a national standard of certification for women-owned businesses. The organization also provides its corporate members and certified women's business enterprises (WBEs) with access to a range of B2B sourcing tools including, an Internet database, WBENCLink, that contains information on certified women's businesses for purchasing managers nationwide. WBENC is a resource for the more than 700 US companies and government agencies that rely on the WBENC certification as an integral part of their supplier diversity programs.
Wholesale Electric Supply Co. of Houston, Inc. has been certified since 1999 through WBENC's Houston, TX affiliate, The Women's Business Development Center. The WBENC Certification for women-owned businesses is one of the most widely recognized and respected certifications in the nation. Accepted by over 700 major corporations across the country and a number of federal and government agencies, your WBENC certification will be an important marketing tool for expanding your company's visibility among decision makers in corporate supplier diversity and procurement.
The most recent WBENC Certificate can be seen below.
In accordance with Texas Gov't Code, Chapter 2161, TBPC is responsible for administering the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program for the State of Texas. This includes marketing the HUB Program, certifying minority and woman-owned businesses as HUBs, facilitating the use of HUBs in state procurement, and providing information on the state's procurement process to minority and woman-owned businesses.
A "Historically Underutilized Business" is an entity with its principal place of business in Texas, and is at least 51% owned by an Asian Pacific American, Black American, Hispanic American, Native American and/or American woman who reside in Texas and have a proportionate interest and demonstrate active participation in the control, operations and management of the entity's affairs.
- Texas Gov't Code, Ch. 2161
- Texas Administrative Code, Ch. 111
Mission
The mission of the Statewide HUB Program is to facilitate the use of HUBs in state procurement, and to effectively provide information on the state's procurement process to minority and woman-owned businesses.
 Goals and Objectives
TBPC fulfills this mission by:
- Developing and administering HUB rules and statute to ensure full and equal access to state procurement opportunities for minority and woman-owned businesses,
- Administering the certification and compliance functions for the Statewide HUB Program,
- Provide education and outreach to minority and woman-owned businesses regarding the Statewide HUB Program and its initiatives,
- Assisting state agencies and institutions of higher education with training, planning, and implementing HUB education and outreach efforts, and
- Compiling and reporting, to the Legislature, the State's HUB expenditures and contract awards semi-annually.
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ISO 9001 Overview
Customers are getting more sophisticated, better informed and their expectations are growing. For any business, the only way to keep up is to offer a real commitment to quality. In fact any organization, whatever their size or industry sector can give themselves a real future in a marketplace by using a well planned and documented quality management system (QMS) such as ISO 9001.
Benefits of registration are:
greater responsibility and quality consciousness amongst staff
better use of time and resources
reduced wastage and product failure
greater consistency and trace ability of products and services. |
QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - ISO 9001:2000
Wholesale Electric Supply Co. of Houston, Inc.
4040 Gulf Freeway
Houston, TX 77004
The other branch location are listed in the Certificate.
Holds Certificate No: FM 65495
and operates a Quality Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 for the following scope:
Warehousing, sales, and delivery of electrical equipment.
Originally Registered: 08/11/1997
Last Issue: 01/10/2007
Expiry Date: 01/09/2010
Wholesale Electric Supply Co. of Houston, Inc. was the first North American electrical supply company to achieve the internationally recognized quality standards of ISO certification. Our customers can be confident they'll receive consistent quality products and services.
ISO certification is part of our ongoing Quality Improvement Process instituted more than two decades ago. Customers benefit from efforts toward total quality management principals, integrated quality: quality that permeates every area of the company, from sales representatives and office personnel to managers.
In 1992, Wholesale Electric Supply Co. of Houston, Inc. was recognized for meeting the requirements of the International Standards Organization (ISO) criteria. |
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