Drive compliance

Drive compliance

Create buying policies and approval flows that encourage buyers to adhere to your organization's purchasing ethos.

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Maintaining compliance with your organization’s purchasing policies and procedures can be tough. But, it doesn’t have to be. Whether you are an administrator at a small business or a large enterprise, our comprehensive solution, Buying Policies and Approvals, helps your teams stay compliant.

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  • Balance employee empowerment with purchasing control

    Balance employee empowerment with purchasing control

    Use Buying Policies and Approval Workflows to identify preferred products or sellers, solicit approvals for orders over specific spend limits and from restricted sellers or categories, and block purchases from certain categories. This feature helps communicate your organization's preferences for certain suppliers and products with easy-to-see visual reminders, so buyers know what they are allowed to buy.

  • Steer buyers to products your organization recommends

    Steer buyers to products your organization recommends

    Identify your organization's preferred products or sellers, restrict or block product categories, to guide buyer behavior. Access this Guided Buying feature by signing up for Business Prime. Identifying preferred sellers and restricting categories is available with Business Prime small, medium, and enterprise plans while blocking categories is available with the enterprise plan.

  • Manage purchasing and avoid bottlenecks

    Manage purchasing and avoid bottlenecks

    Identify the right approver for each policy, and assign multiple approvers, each with the ability to grant permission for a faster turnaround. Enable batch approvals so that buyers get what they need, when they need it.

Customer Success Stories

Five Star Senior Living
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Five Star Senior Living: Controlling spend without restricting freedom

“Before we started on Amazon Business, we received about 60 new vendor requests a day from staff members in our communities for any number of new items they needed." – Kevin Turner, Assistant Treasurer

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Johns Hopkins University
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Johns Hopkins University: Sourcing from small, local businesses

“Seller credentials are very important for Johns Hopkins University because we have a lot of grants and part of our contracts is access to diverse businesses. The money we spend locally stays here.” – Crystal Burns, Small Business and Supplier Diversity Lead



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Seattle Children's Hospital
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Seattle Children's Hospital: Streamlining purchasing for hundreds of items

“The main benefit of Amazon Business for us is the ability to shift costly, labor-intensive approval processes for these items, so users can order directly with a more simple review and approval process.” – James Leroy, Director of Strategic Sourcing & Value Analysis

 

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