Smart business buying starts here

Enhance budget management by analyzing buying patterns to make smarter choices and uncover savings. Gain insights into spending, enabling better budgeting and financial control. Here's the benefit:

• Smart decision-making: See your spending clearly to make informed choices.
• Identify savings: Uncover chances to reduce costs and boost efficiency.
• Transparency and accountability: Foster trust with clear communication and measurable outcomes.

Get insights anytime, anywhere with a cloud-based system that lets you access data from any device. This flexibility means you're always informed and ready to make decisions, no matter where you are. Here's why it's great:

• Always connected: Access data on-the-go.
  
• Informed decisions: Make choices with real-time insights.
• Flexible access: Use any device, anywhere.

Zoom in on the details that matter. By using filters for PO numbers, invoices, suppliers, and more, you can drill down into your spending data, helping you manage your budget and identify savings opportunities more effectively. Here's the impact:

• Targeted analysis: Focus on the specifics to understand spending better.
• Custom insights: Tailor your view to see exactly what you need.
• Efficient management: Streamline budget tracking and save time.

Elevate procurement strategy with data-backed insights. Analyse supplier performance and spending to refine your sourcing approach. Gain visibility into vendor efficiency, driving cost reductions and enhancing supply chain resilience. Here’s the advantage:

• Strategic partnerships: Foster stronger relationships with key suppliers.
• Cost reduction: Pinpoint opportunities for savings and negotiate better terms.
• Risk management: Identify and mitigate supplier risks before they impact your business.

Access a world of suppliers with Amazon Business. Our global network offers unmatched diversity, ensuring you find the right partners to meet your business goals. Benefits include:

• Diverse supplier base: Tap into a wide range of global vendors.
• Market insights: Stay ahead with trends and opportunities in global sourcing.
• Scalability: Easily adjust to changing business needs with a flexible supplier network.

Integrate strategic sourcing seamlessly into your procurement processes. Amazon Business simplifies supplier management, from onboarding to performance tracking, all in one platform. Impactful outcomes:

• Efficient onboarding: Quickly add and manage suppliers.
• Performance tracking: Monitor and evaluate supplier contributions to your goals.
• Procurement synergy: Align sourcing strategies with overall procurement objectives.

Facilitate transparent budget management by enabling clear allocation and pre-approval workflows. Empower buyers with the necessary information to understand and adhere to purchasing policies, fostering accountability and responsible spending practices.

• Customisable approvals: Set up approval workflows to match your policies.
• Spend controls: Implement spending limits to prevent unauthorised purchases.
• Supplier compliance: Vet suppliers against your compliance criteria

Enhance transparency and accountability in procurement through efficient reconciliation methods. Use tools like 3-Way Match and Business Order Information to swiftly manage and track purchases and collect critical order information.

• Tax documentation: Easily access and manage tax documents.
• Data privacy: Protect sensitive information in line with regulations.
• Accurate financial records: Collect order information to support financial reconciliation, spend analysis, and cost allocation efforts.
  

Promote compliance with organisational policies while empowering buyers to make informed decisions. Define and enforce clear guidelines for preferred products and vendors, coupled with spending controls to maintain oversight without hindering efficiency.

• Supplier assessments: Evaluate suppliers to ensure reliability and compliance.
• Spend visibility: Monitor spending trends to identify potential risks.
• Policy updates: Quickly adapt to new regulations and update policies accordingly. 

With Punchout, buyers begin their buying experience within their procurement system, then punch out to the Amazon Business website to make a purchase. At checkout, their basket routes back through their procurement system for approvals.

• Punchout can be a prerequisite for other integrations like Punch-in and Integrated Search.

With Punch-in, buyers begin on the Amazon Business website. At checkout, their basket is routed to their e-procurement system for approvals.

• Punch-in provides buyers with the familiar Amazon shopping experience and helps businesses capture what could otherwise be rogue spend.

By integrating existing systems with Amazon Business, buyers can build buying journeys that match their preferences and meet their business goals. Select one or more Amazon Business integrations. Benefits can include:

• Save time and money: Make purchases with less clicks and reduce software training time.
• Drive compliance: Route purchases from Amazon Business through your system for approvals.
• Increase spend visibility: Gain insights into Amazon Business spend by centralising in your purchasing system.

Amazon Business’ Integrated Search integration lets buyers search and shop the full Amazon Business selection from your spend management or e-procurement tools, without having to Punchout.

• Quick reordering: Access frequently purchased items with ease.
• Centralised management: Oversee all purchases through a single dashboard.
• Customised catalogs: Tailor product selection to fit your organisation's preferences.