Responsible purchasing

Make progress towards your responsible purchasing goals.
certified vendors & items
Purchase more responsibly, with ease.
Empower your buyers with a single platform to purchase from certified local businesses or sustainability-certified products through Amazon Business.
Monitor your spending patterns and generate reports to measure progress towards internal goals or regulatory mandates.
  • Save time searching

    Search for local businesses or products with sustainability certifications- all in one place.

    Save time searching            

    Wide selection of supplies

    Purchase the products that best fit your organization’s responsible purchasing criteria and compare organization-preferred products with alternative options.

  • Guide your buyers

    Direct your team to preferred products and sellers that meet your responsible purchasing goals.

    Guide your buyers

    Buying policies

    Make it easy for buyers to find and purchase preferred products, while balancing price and delivery speed.

  • Measure progress

    Monitor spend with local sellers, and products with sustainability certifications.

    Measure progress

    Analytics and reports

    Show progress toward your goals with simplified reporting that can be filtered by location and certifications.

Features
Guided Buying

Establish buying policies to guide buyers to products and sellers that help meet your responsible purchasing goals.

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prefeerred by your organization
Buy local

Steer buyers to local businesses with buying policies that highlight offers from preferred local sellers.

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Sustainability

Shop from a wide range of products with the Climate Pledge Friendly label from over 50 third-party certifiers.

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Analytics and insights

Track spend toward responsible purchasing goals with pre-built reports and custom dashboards.

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Your Catalog

Business Prime exclusive

Spotlight organization-preferred products in your own customized storefront, just for Business Prime Enterprise members.

Customer stories

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Toys for Kids

Discover how more savings on high-volume purchases means more toys for kids in the community.

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Vacasa

Managing spend with improved purchasing visibility and established payments policies.

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Sport Clips Haircuts

Discover how Sport Clips streamlined store operations and procurement processes with Amazon Business.

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Start purchasing more responsibly

FAQs

  • Amazon Business provides tools that make it easy to discover local suppliers or products with sustainability certifications. You can set buying policies to guide buyers to preferred products and suppliers.

  • You can set a Prefer local sellers policy to highlight offers and products from local sellers based on their province or city on Amazon Business.

  • You can guide buyers toward more responsible purchasing using one or more buying policies available on Amazon Business, such as the Sustainability Certifications Policy and Local Sellers Policy.

  • Amazon Business simplifies reporting and tracking of spend towards certified suppliers, local businesses, and products with sustainability certifications. You can create exportable order reports on Amazon Business Analytics that can be filtered.

  • If you're a seller and want to add your small business and/or diversity certifications to your profile, head over to Sell with Amazon.