Off-load Inventory Management with Amazon Business Restock

Worker safety is nonnegotiable. And although knowledge and training are essential to worker safety in manufacturing and industrial settings, so too is maintaining a reliable supply of safety gear and personal protective equipment, so that employees have what they need, when they need it, to stay safe on the job.

But with supply chain disruption becoming the new normal, maintaining a consistent inventory of essential safety supplies has become more difficult, more costly and more complex. That’s why Amazon Business is introducing Amazon Business Restock, bringing business buyers two new replenishment services – Managed Inventory and Vending – to simplify inventory management, helping to save time and money and your employees’ access to needed supplies.

Streamlining inventory management

With Amazon Business Restock’s Managed Inventory service, Amazon Business technicians monitor and restock one or more designated stockrooms in a single site, or across multiple sites, ensuring that essential supplies such as PPE and safety gear are available. This proactive approach can help minimize the risk of stockouts that could lead to noncompliance, injuries or job delays.

The Vending service offers organizations even more control, using vending machines to dispense your organization’s compliant, site-specific safety products – or any other smaller-sized products your teams may need on the go. Account administrators can set limits on quantities, users and spending, ensuring that only authorized personnel can access specific items, helping to reduce waste and control costs. Your employees can either enter a code or scan an ID to access authorized items, making distribution secure and easy. This system also provides alerts to Amazon Business and your account administrator when stock levels are low, automatically triggering reorders to prevent shortages.

Cost efficiency and operational savings

By off-loading time-consuming inventory management tasks, organizations can reduce the manual time and operational resources required to track and order essential supplies. Amazon Business technicians can tailor restocking cadences according to your specific worksite needs, optimizing inventory levels, and minimizing excess stock. This flexibility helps avoid tying up capital in unnecessary inventory, freeing up resources for other critical operations.

Moreover, the rationalization of SKUs through Amazon Business support teams can help create standardized product lists, limiting redundancies. This rationalization process can not only streamline procurement, but it can also enhance forecasting abilities, allowing for more accurate budget planning and resource allocation.

Customization and scalability

Every organization has unique needs, especially when it comes to safety equipment, which is why Amazon Business Restock replenishment services are tailored to each business’s specific requirements. Whether your organization operates from a single site or multiple locations, the restocking cadence and product assortment can be adjusted to suit individual site, machine and stockroom needs. This level of customization ensures that each facility receives the necessary safety equipment, right-sizing orders without overburdening storage capacities.

With access to a vast selection of safety, IT, MRO, and other business supplies from Amazon Business, you can evolve orders to help support organizational transitions and uninterrupted operations, critical for maintaining safety standards and operational efficiency.

“With Amazon Business Restock, we are raising the bar for what customers should expect from their suppliers,” Amazon Business Head of Services Cody Tolve said. “By using automated ordering capabilities and inventory reporting, we restock customers’ worksites with the supplies they need, backed by Amazon’s vast selection. As we invent and simplify for customers, I am so excited for Restock to become a core pillar of their smart business buying strategy.”

When combined with the vast selection of trusted, certified products on the most comprehensive store for business purchasing, these smart business buying services present manufacturing and industrial organizations with a simple solution for managing safety equipment inventory. By simply streamlining inventory management, manufacturing, and industrial organizations can look to reduce costs, enhance safety compliance, and take advantage of customizable and scalable options that can help boost operational efficiency.

The Managed Inventory service is currently available in select U.S. cities and rapidly expanding, and Vending is scheduled to roll out in 2025.

This article was originally published on Safety & Health.