Compliance management    

Manage and set transparent purchasing guardrails for buyers.
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Scale buying through procurement compliance.
Amazon Business makes it easy to drive compliance across your organization through our smart business buying tools. Drive adherence to your organization’s procurement goals and purchasing preferences, while avoiding any slow down for buyers and approvers. Reduce rogue spend, oversee purchasing and selection, and foster transparency with your buyers.
  • Oversee purchasing

    Set spend thresholds for buyers, establish checkpoints with approval workflows, and track spend.

                

  • Set guardrails

    Manage employee spending by steering buyers to preferred products and your purchasing guidelines.

    Set guardrails

  • Avoid bottlenecks

    Streamline purchasing with flexible approval workflows, quick reconciliation, and visual signposts.

    Avoid bottlenecks

Features
Budget Management

Set budgets and establish pre-purchase approvals. Track spending and create one streamlined PO to decrease time spent auditing purchases.

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Guided Buying

Create policies that drive buyers to products and suppliers you prefer and to alert them of those they should avoid.

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Approvals

Create approval workflows to control spending and use multiple approvers and batch approvals to remove bottlenecks.

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3-Way Match

Unite your order, item receipt, and invoice to close purchase orders and speed up reconciliation.

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Punchout

Give buyers easy access to Amazon Business while complying with your procurement policies and controls.

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Business Giving

Purchase items for others while maintaining control over selection and spend with product vouchers.

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Spend Visibility

Business Prime exclusive

Analyze spending and identify risks with our pre-built dashboards, only for Business Prime members.  

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Customer stories

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Per Scholas

Nonprofit advances their mission of equitable education with efficient procurement processes and purchasing control.

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OneDigital

Insurance provider enhances cost savings through better procurement management and oversight.

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Resources

Spend Visibility overview

Learn how to uncover purchasing insights and analyze goals through interactive, visual, ready-to-use dashboards.

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How to configure 3-Way Match

Speed up order reconciliation with 3-way matching by tracking, inspecting, and receiving items in one centralized place.

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Business Giving overview

Set up a Business Giving campaign to create vouchers and simplify the process of giving items to others.

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FAQs

  • With Guided Buying, Administrators can create preferred, restricted, or blocked policies based on categories, sellers, brand, or specific items to guide buyers to items that align with organization policies. Amazon Business Analytics Spend Visibility, a feature exclusively for eligible Business Prime members, allows detailed tracking of policy compliance.

  • Amazon Business 3-Way Match verifies that POs, receiving confirmations, and invoices match helping customers prevent incorrect payments while providing audit trails for compliance.

  • Business Analytics Reports can be customized by filtering on specific data (such as company compliance) and columns can be adjusted to display relevant information for compliance needs.

  • Amazon Business Approval Workflows support compliance by enabling Administrators to set spending limits and create customizable Approvals that help ensure purchases align with organizational goals and policies while designating approvers who can review orders before completion to maintain spend control.

  • Procurement compliance ensure purchasing activities follow organization policies and external regulations while maintaining proper documentation and accountability. This helps prevent incorrect payments, reduce fraud, maintain cost control, and meet internal governance and external regulatory standards.

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