Spend management    

Identify and manage unplanned spend across purchase categories.
spend by category
From tail to strategic spend.
Tail spend is typically made up of 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 into your buyers’ purchases.
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 more spend

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

                

  • Procure more responsibly

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

    Procure more responsibly

  • Unlock more savings

    Identify opportunities to buy in bulk by analysing tail spend data and purchasing behaviour.

    Unlock more savings

Features

Guided Buying

Identify and manage unplanned spend across purchase categories.

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Delivery preferences

Streamline delivery by providing customised instructions and preferred delivery times.

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Spend insights

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

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Start managing tail spend today

FAQs

  • Amazon Business helps organisations manage unplanned or rogue spend with innovative tools to set buying policies and approval workflows, and to gain visibility over spend across the organisation.

  • Click Learn more for step-by-step instructions on how to add approval workflows to your buying policies.

  • 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 organisation.

  • A custom catalog on Amazon Business improves spend management by simplifying the search for organisation-preferred products and helping buyers comply with your purchasing policies.

  • With spend analytics, you can view your organisation’s spend over time and across product categories to identify opportunities to buy in bulk and save.

  • 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.