The premier event for procurement pioneers

Strategic sourcing continues to be a leadership priority to drive organizational objectives such as cost reduction, digital transformation, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In this session, you will learn how enterprises are using Amazon Business digital purchasing solutions to increase agility and efficiency, and accelerate growth. You’ll hear about strategies and best practices from global Fortune 500 companies to help you reshape buying.

Digitizing procurement operations has allowed many organizations to meet sourcing demands, boost productivity, and optimize costs. In this session, you will uncover ways to use intelligent procurement, powered by machine learning and analytics, to automate and simplify processes for your teams to buy for work, track spend and purchasing patterns for improved decision making, and scale digital procurement through integrations and payment solutions.

For businesses of any size, digitalization is no longer an option. Hear from a panel of leaders on how they are simplifying employee purchasing with a one-stop shopping experience, customized buying policies, and convenient delivery options – all with the familiar purchasing experience of Amazon.

In this session, you will learn about new Business Prime features that can help you realize greater savings and efficiencies. We will share tips on how to get the most from your Business Prime membership, demo our most popular features, and highlight how organizations use tools such as Guided Buying and Spend Visibility to gain spend intelligence and improve decision making.

Many organizations have documented CSR initiatives, but buying from local, diverse, and more sustainable suppliers can be a manual and time-consuming process. Organizations can purchase over 200,000 products with the Climate Pledge Friendly label from 39 certifiers. Certifications include EPEAT and ENERGY STAR, and certifiers such as Forest Stewardship Council. Learn how to implement organization-wide or departmental buying policies that reinforce your organization’s CSR purchasing goals, such as preferring local and diverse sellers and purchasing products with sustainability certifications.

The shift to digital procurement empowers organizations to scale savings, efficiencies, and insights at an unprecedented pace. Dive into the newest technologies for purchasing, reconciliation, and analysis from Amazon Business and get an in-depth view of tools you can use to streamline shopping experiences, simplify and automate procurement processes, and drive business insights through analytics with trusted software solutions.

Digital procurement can enable new insights, efficiencies, and savings, especially when purchasing systems are built to work together through seamless integrations. Learn how Amazon Business works with the buying tools you use today to deliver more value from your procurement technology stack. Discover new paths to simplify shopping, drive compliance with internal purchasing polices, and save time and cost with integrated solutions for single sign-on, Punchout, eInvoice, Integrated Search, and more.

Organizations need greater visibility into spend along with solutions that can turn insights into actions. In this session, you will learn about tools to help you visualize spend through custom reports and dashboards, improve compliance with internal purchasing policies, and maintain control with purchasing guardrails. Learn how Amazon Business Analytics, Spend Visibility, Guided Buying, and Approval Policies can equip you to drive compliance at scale.

Ensuring strong controls and spend management have been at the centre of procurement strategy for decades. The past few years have thrown these models off balance and, combined with the accelerating pace of business, organizations are recalibrating what it means to be both efficient and agile. In this session, learn how organizations are using agile procurement processes to adapt decentralized work environments and manage risk exposure while building supplier redundancy.

Even with environmental and sustainability goals in place, many organizations do not have effective sourcing strategies or the right technology to purchase more responsibly. In this session, you will learn how to implement successful programs to easily identify and source from credentialled diverse, local, and small businesses, and how to use digital tools to gain visibility into purchasing patterns to help track progress with sustainability goals.

Rapid growth can come with long vendor lists, tedious invoices, and lack of visibility into spending. In this session, we’ll show you how businesses can automate routine buying processes to save time and simplify operations, make better data-driven decisions using real-time analytics, and empower employees with the tools and business selection they need for work.