2020

Introduction to Amazon
Business
SUMMER 2020
PARAGYIOU, MARIA
 1. Overview

Amazon Business makes purchasing for work as easy as buying for personal use, combining the
selection, convenience, and fast delivery of Amazon with additional business-exclusive benefits
to enable organizations of all sizes save time and money.

Amazon Business serves millions of business customers across the world, providing the
selection, convenience, and fast delivery that customers love about Amazon with exclusive
business features including access to Pay by Invoice, downloadable VAT invoices and Business
Prime membership available for unlimited fast, free shipping from £80/year excl. VAT.

Signing up is for free.

2. Benefits at a glance:

 Reduce Costs: Keep purchasing costs low with easy access to competitive pricing and
improve cash flow with more flexible payment options including Pay by Invoice.
 Save Time & Effort: A familiar marketplace that reduces the complexity of buying for
work. Spend less time on purchasing and more time on growing your business.
 Greater Visibility and Control: Consolidate your team's spend in a single multi-user
account, with built-in features to control how and what users buy.
 Easy reconciliation: Match the PO number to the receipt or the commercial credit card
statement to your organization’s accounts.

3. Benefits deep-dive

Reduce Costs:

Competitive marketplace: Competitive prices for specific products, with easy to compare
alternatives across different price ranges.

Improve cash flow: Purchase now and pay in net 30 days after shipping with Pay By Invoice
(subject to satisfactory credit checks and individual credit limit).

Unlimited fast, FREE shipping: From £80/year excl. VAT, with Business Prime get unlimited
Free One-Day Delivery for everyone in the workplace.

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Easy returns: Reduce wasteful spend with hassle-free returns, only keeping what your business
actually needs.

Save Time & Effort:

Simple supplier management: Spend less time searching for, negotiating with and managing
suppliers – find them in one competitive marketplace.

Easier VAT invoice management: Compare VAT-exclusive prices and filter sellers with
downloadable VAT invoices. Find invoices automatically populated in your account, available
to download in bulk.

Quicker replenishment: Add frequently purchased products to purchasing lists and re-order
items in a single click. Set up different lists for different categories, departments, functions or
branches.

Speed up approvals: Implement your offline approvals directly on Amazon, with the ability to
approve multiple orders, either in bulk or individually at item level.

Greater Visibility and Control:

Consolidate team spending: Replicate your company's organizational structure through

creating buying groups, and implement your sign-off process with approval workflows. Add
your whole team to gain full visibility over team spend.

Control purchasing: Set spending limits and auto-approve purchases below your chosen
threshold. Guide your company spend and implement policies through Catalogue Curation,
setting restricted categories or preferred products as you wish.

Evaluate and optimize buying: Customize spending reports to track procurement metrics.
Identify purchase trends and opportunities, to consolidate and reduce wasteful spend.

Create purchasing lists: Influence what your team purchases by creating lists with preferred
products, making it easier for them to buy.

Easy reconciliation:

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Line-item detail: Simplify reconciliation through detailed invoices when using Pay by Invoice
(subject to satisfactory credit checks and individual credit limit), or enhanced transaction data
on eligible commercial credit cards.

Add PO numbers to orders: Add PO numbers and other business information for easier
approvals, tracking and reconciliation.

Download reconciliation reports: Use Amazon Business Analytics to download detailed,

customizable reconciliation reports.

Seamless integration: Use your existing procurement systems to purchase on Amazon,

including Coupa, JAGGAER and SAP Ariba.

4. Country-specific benefits and features:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/business

https://www.amazon.de/business

https://www.amazon.fr/business

https://www.amazon.it/business

https://www.amazon.es/business