Smart Business Buying for Healthcare Organisations
Where and how you buy matters—to your patients, employees, and community. Every purchasing decision impacts the quality of care you can provide, determines your fiscal responsibility, and influences your efficiency in a world of limited resources.
Traditional purchasing methods lack the transparency, f lexibility, and automation while still maintaining the necessary controls required by today’s buyers. That’s where Smart Business Buying from Amazon Business comes in.
Whether you’re looking for a primary supplier, support with urgent spot buys, or an avenue for responsible purchasing, Smart Business Buying has what you need. The digital purchasing solution provides capabilities similar to the ones you enjoy when shopping in your personal life, making the buying process more intuitive and convenient.
With Smart Business Buying, your workforce spends less time sourcing and buying supplies with built-in tools to maintain spend controls so you can focus on what matters most – patient care.
As you consider transforming your buying methods, start by evaluating your organisation’s current purchasing-related challenges and whether Smart Business Buying can help.
Your Personal Purchasing Checklist
From purchasing last-minute miscellaneous items to ordering core operational necessities like personal protective equipment in bulk, buying needs across the healthcare sector are diverse. Use this checklist to determine whether the following commonly experienced industry challenges hamstring your institution:
Do you lack control over and visibility into non-contract spend?
Your organisation needs certain supplies that could be outside of a negotiated agreement. With hundreds of buyers making fragmented purchases, it’s easy to lose track of essential information, skip steps in the purchasing authorisation process, or miss opportunities to consolidate spend (especially for supplies purchased in bulk).
Do you miss opportunities to cut costs?
With thin operating margins, saving costs is a key priority. However, with multiple buyers across your organisation, you might end up paying tax on items you shouldn’t or unintentionally order expensive items when more cost- effective options exist.
Do manual tasks result in lost efficiencies?
Manual processes—like tracking down stakeholders for purchase approvals and searching for frequently purchased products—take more time than they should. While these tasks are essential, they draw your employees away from their core responsibilities and strategic tasks. Additionally, these processes can be difficult to automate while still maintaining controls.
Do you struggle to overcome disruptions and improve supply resiliency?
With supply chain disruptions up 46% year-over-year, agility has become crucial to maintaining operations. You’re forced to find new suppliers (often on short notice). Determining whether the new supplies meet your organisation’s needs—and comparing them against competing goods—is challenging and costly via traditional offline buying methods. Without existing relationships with alternative suppliers, the challenge grows even larger.
Four Opportunities With Smart Business Buying
If you answered “Yes” to the checklist, Smart Business Buying might be the solution. Here are a few ways Amazon Business supports healthcare organisations, helping you buy smarter and dream bigger:
Automate to control and channel spend
Smart Business Buying uses automation, helping reduce time spent on administrative tasks so you can better prioritise strategic initiatives. Features like Approval Workflows and Reorder Lists streamline purchase approvals and help employees easily find frequently purchased products. With a familiar and intuitive purchasing system, you can also boost employee productivity and satisfaction.
Drive decisions with analytics
Because Smart Business Buying happens online and within a single system, all purchases are automatically tracked—eliminating the need to track down order invoices and shipping information
Make the most out of limited budgets
With Guided Buying—a Business Prime feature—you can better manage employee spending by directing buyers to products that are within your price range or contribute to ESG goals.
Optimise the purchasing process
Smart Business Buying mimics the experience provided in online retail shopping by offering a wide range of products, detailed descriptions, and access to prices and reviews for each product and seller. The intuitive shopping experience makes it easier to find and compare products that meet the needs of your staff and patients.
"Amazon Business was able to provide us with a portal which is compatible with our compliance and public sector buying rules (electronic invoicing via Chorus) within a few days. We were able to supply certain products within a very short lead time at a costeffective price."
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