Spend management

Identify and manage unplanned spend across purchase categories.

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Overview
Features
Customer stories
FAQs

Overview
Features
Customer stories
FAQs

From tail to strategic spend.

Tail spend typically makes up 20% of procurement spend with 80% of suppliers. These purchases can be infrequent but distracting to manage. Worse, they can be costly with little oversight of your buyers' purchases.

Whether ad-hoc, rogue, or infrequent spot purchases, tail spend is many things, but it can and should be strategic. By gaining control of tail spend, you can turn an operational challenge into a strategic advantage for your business.

Manage your spend

Make purchasing easier with a wide selection of products, fast shipping, and transparent guardrails.
Procure responsibly

Shift more spend towards local businesses, certified diverse sellers, and more sustainable products.

Procure responsibly
Unlock more savings

Identify opportunities to buy in bulk by analyzing tail spend data and purchasing behavior.

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Features

Spend Insights

Uncover purchasing insights by visualizing your spend and comparing across categories.

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Integrated Search

Let buyers search for products on Amazon Business from your current procurement system.

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Guided Buying

Direct buyers to organization-preferred products and sellers with transparent guardrails and approval workflows.

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Budget Management

Manage spend effectively by setting guardrails and spend limits for your buyers.

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Business Lists

Make buying easy by maintaining your list of frequently purchased items.

Delivery preferences

Streamline delivery by providing customized instructions and preferred delivery times.

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Systems Integrations

Create a seamless buying experience. Connect your e-procurement systems to Amazon Business with Punch-in and Punchout.

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Travel and hospitality

Vacassa

Read how a leading vacation rental company keeps properties stocked and furnished around the world.

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Enterprise

ExxonMobil

Discover how a leading energy company streamlined their daily deliveries across numerous locations.

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Start managing tail spend today

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FAQs

Amazon Business helps organizations manage unplanned or rogue spend with innovative tools to set buying policies and approval workflows, and to gain visibility over spend across the organization.
Click Learn more for step-by-step instructions on how to add approval workflows to your buying policies.

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Amazon Business provides your buyers and employees with access to a wide selection of products and a familiar shopping experience, all within predefined guidelines set by your organization.
A custom catalog on Amazon Business improves spend management by simplifying the search for organization-preferred products and helping buyers comply with your purchasing policies.
With spend analytics, you can view your organization’s spend over time and across product categories to identify opportunities to buy in bulk and save.
Amazon Business offers multiple payment options that allow you to track your organization’s spend.

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You can access pre-built reports and custom dashboards on Amazon Business Analytics to view your spend data, identify saving opportunities, and make smarter buying decisions.
Yes, Amazon Business integrates with over 300 third-party software and business applications.

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