Honda honored Enterprise Knowledge (EK) for outstanding performance during the past year. Honda recognized a total of only 33 suppliers that provide indirect products and services to Honda manufacturing plants and business operations across North America. The awards were announced during the annual Honda Indirect Procurement Supplier Conference in Dublin, Ohio on June 11, 2025. Lulit Tesfaye, EK Vice President, and Kristin Levitas, EK Practice Leader, attended the event and accepted the award.
Suppliers categorized as “indirect procurement” provide Honda companies with a wide variety of equipment, products, and services to support business operations and manufacturing facilities. Selected from a roster of over 6,000 suppliers, EK was one of only six organizations awarded in the New Suppliers category, which recognizes those who have demonstrated outstanding implementation practices and provided value-based products, services, or programs.
The theme of the 2025 conference, ‘Flexibility for Tomorrow,’ is of particular importance to the Honda supplier network, as the company is transforming nearly every aspect of its operations to support its ability to meet customers’ needs and changing market conditions.
“‘Flexibility for Tomorrow’ means that Honda is designing supply chains and partnerships that aren’t just responsive, but resilient, nimble, scalable, reimagined, and able to adapt without losing momentum,” said Jake Schmidt, procurement strategy director for North American Indirect Procurement at Honda. “We’re excited by the possibilities ahead and we’re grateful to work with business partners who share this vision.”
Honda’s own press release includes more details that can be viewed on their website.
“We at Enterprise Knowledge are deeply honored to receive this recognition, but moreover to be trusted as Honda’s partner in this work,” said Zach Wahl, CEO of Enterprise Knowledge.
In addition to this recognition from Honda, EK was recently named one of the Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management, and the KMWorld AI 100 for leadership in Artificial Intelligence. EK has consecutively won both awards for several years. This year, EK was also recognized by both Inc. Magazine and the Washington Business Journal as a best place to work, marking over a decade of similar recognition for employee satisfaction and corporate culture.