Amazon Business and Supplier.io: A collaboration for responsible sourcing

According to the Hackett Group's 2022 Supplier Diversity Study, all top-performing companies and nearly all peer companies have supplier diversity programs in North America. Amazon Business and Supplier.io combine our expertise to help organizations accurately track their spend with small and diverse suppliers so they can get an accurate baseline, track progress, and effectively plan for growth.

Amazon Business customers purchasing products from suppliers with diversity certifications can integrate with Supplier.io to centrally track that spend to accurately report as part of their supplier diversity initiative. This means you can capture more spend for better and more accurate results.

Amazon Business supports socially responsible purchasing by featuring products with sustainability certifications, and accepting nationally-recognized certifications for small, diverse or local suppliers. Supplier.io is the market-leading data and SaaS provider powering successful supplier diversity and responsible sourcing programs with centralized data, reporting, and analysis. By connecting Supplier.io data, from over 7 million global diverse suppliers, to your Amazon Business account, you can optimize, scale and measure your sustainability and supplier diversity spend

Amazon Business for socially responsible business buying

Amazon Business helps leaders modernize and automate procurement with powerful management controls and analytic tools—all within the familiar experience of Amazon.

Amazon Business can support your initiatives by making it easier for your employees to buy from small, diverse, or local businesses, and discover products with sustainability certifications. You can easily capture and report on that spend with the integrated Amazon Business and Supplier.io solution.  Supplier.io enriches your Amazon Business spend with industry-leading supplier diversity data, making it easy to add to your existing reporting or set up new reporting.

Finding and vetting reliable, local, or certified diverse suppliers can be difficult and time consuming. Amazon Business consolidates hundreds of thousands of suppliers and offers time-saving, on-demand tools for recurring deliveries and repetitive high-volume purchases. Amazon Business enables customers to create and configure purchasing groups, add administrators, set permissions, and enable approval workflows. Insights from reporting tools are available to efficiently plan and manage bulk purchasing.

Supplier.io advantages

Supplier.io is the market-leading responsible sourcing data and SaaS provider dedicated to optimizing and scaling companies’ sustainability and supplier diversity initiatives. Supplier.io delivers innovative SaaS solutions for transparent and responsible sourcing within the global supply chain. Supplier.io’s mission is to connect buyers with diverse and sustainable suppliers, empowering businesses with critical supplier intelligence to maintain resilient supplier bases and effectively mitigate risk. 

Serving most Fortune 500 companies, Supplier.io powers the most successful responsible sourcing programs worldwide. Supplier.io helps organizations track and grow business with diverse, small, social, and environmental suppliers to decrease supply chain risk, meet reporting requirements, and advance Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals; creating positive economic and environmental impacts.

With Supplier.io, you can know how much your organization spends with small and diverse suppliers. Supplier.io enriches your current data and analyzes your spend with the most comprehensive and accurate diverse and sustainable supplier data available. Supplier.io can also benchmark next to your peers to chart a clear path to growth.

Why supplier diversity is important

Over the last few years more organizations have been building and scaling up their supplier diversity programs. Supplier diversity is a vital business requirement that offers considerable competitive advantages in the short and long term.

In Supplier.io’s 2024 State of Supplier Diversity report, organizations report the benefits of their supplier diversity program include improved supply chain competitiveness (65%), enhanced brand (48%) and winning new business (48%). As supplier diversity has become more business critical the data and results associated with it have come under increasing scrutiny. Business leaders want to know how much the company is spending with small and diverse suppliers to report to customers, consumers, government entities, and even in new bids.

Accurate numbers are critical, which is why Amazon Business and Supplier.io have partnered to make it even easier for companies to get accurate results.