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Support your initiatives by making it easier to buy from small, or local businesses and discover products with sustainability certifications.
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Amazon Business can support your initiatives by making it easier to buy from small, or local businesses, and discover products with sustainability certifications. Get tools to define, meet, and proactively measure progress toward your responsible purchasing goals.

  • buy local

    Promote local businesses

    Boost the economic health of local businesses and save time for buyers by implementing organisation-wide or departmental policies to highlight and prefer local sellers.

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  • sustainability

    Make purchasing more sustainable

    Streamline the process of discovering and purchasing products with sustainability certifications.

    Learn how to buy more sustainable products

Get the selection and tools to make progress towards responsible purchasing goals

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    Guide buyers to preferred products and sellers

    Track progress towards responsible purchasing goals by guiding your buyers towards products with sustainability certifications.

     

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    Proactively measure progress on responsible purchasing goals

    Simplify reporting by tracking spend toward certified suppliers and products with sustainability certifications

     

    • Track spend toward responsible purchasing goals with pre-built reports using Amazon Business Analytics.
    • Create dashboards and exportable reports to see top spend categories with Spend Visibility, a Business Prime benefit.
    • Use Approval Workflows to identify the right approver, assign multiple approvers, or enable batch approvals (for each policy) so buyers get what they need, when they need it

  • Amazon business

    Empower buyer choice by surfacing products with sustainability certifications

    Expand purchasing flexibility with our comprehensive selection from certified local businesses, and more-sustainable products

     

    • Compare organisation-preferred products that meet responsible purchasing requirements against alternative options and select the product that best fits your need.
    • Realise efficiencies and consolidate suppliers by using purchase data to highlight themes, trends, and habits across purchase categories with Supplier Analysis.
    • Use Your Catalogue, a Business Prime feature, to create a customised front page and make it easier for buyers to find organisation-preferred products.

Amazon Business helps customers make progress towards their goals

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“We launched on Amazon to help more businesses make sustainable IT decisions. We’re pleased by the response we’ve managed to generate so far – it’s exceeded our expectations."

 

Rob Judd, Director of Sales, Portus Digital

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“Introducing Amazon Business for Capita’s tail spend IT peripherals has reduced our procurement costs by over £225,000 within the first six months. It has also cut purchasing time by 82% - something which has gained fantastic feedback from our customers and internal stakeholders.”

 

Justin Chandler, Capita Procurement Strategy

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“We recognise that Procurement are here to deliver commerciality whilst protecting against risks but also, with the right mindset and tools, we can do so much more for our customers and colleagues.”

 

Alexei Burns, Group Procurement - Strategy, Planning & Performance, Centrica

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