Responsible purchasing

Make progress towards your responsible purchasing goals.
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certified vendors & items
Purchase more responsibly, with ease.
With Amazon Business, empower your buyers to shop certified local businesses and diverse sellers, or purchase products with sustainability certifications.
Track spend and report on your progress towards internal goals or regulatory mandates.

  • Save time searching

    Search for local businesses or products with sustainability certifications from a single place.

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    Wide selection of supplies

    Purchase the products that best fit your organization’s responsible purchasing criteria and compare organization-preferred products with alternative options.

  • Guide your buyers

    Direct your team to preferred products and sellers that meet your responsible purchasing goals.

    Guide your buyers

    Buying policies

    Make it easy for buyers to find and purchase preferred products, while balancing price and delivery speed.

  • Measure progress

    Monitor spend with local and diverse sellers, and products with sustainability certifications.

    Measure progress

    Analytics and reports

    Show progress toward your goals with simplified reporting that can be filtered by location and certifications.

Features
Guided Buying

Establish buying policies to guide buyers to products and sellers that help meet your responsible purchasing goals.

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prefeerred by your organization
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Supplier diversity

Spotlight products from small and certified diverse sellers with the Diversity Certifications Policy.

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Buy local

Steer buyers to local businesses with buying policies that highlight offers from preferred local sellers.

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Sustainability

Shop from a wide range of products with the Climate Pledge Friendly label from over 50 third-party certifiers.

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Analytics and insights

Track spend toward responsible purchasing goals with pre-built reports and custom dashboards.

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Your Catalog

Business Prime exclusive

Spotlight organization-preferred products in your own customized storefront, just for Business Prime Enterprise members.

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Ship eligible products safely while reducing packaging waste.

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Customer stories

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Enterprise

United Rentals

Discover how one of the largest equipment rental companies is raising the bar on supplier diversity.

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Travel and hospitality

Vacasa

Managing spend with improved purchasing visibility and established payments policies.

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onedigital

Healthcare

Mary's Center

Learn how managing tail spend led to enhanced spend control, supplier consolidation, and cost efficiencies.

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“The technology empowers individuals to quickly identify certified suppliers.”

Stefanie Bensmiller, Director of Procurement, Indirect, ABM Industries
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Resources

Blog

New shape of procurement

Learn how to to create responsive and resilient procurement practices that bolster organizational goals.

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Blog

Empower responsible purchasing

Discover how to make it easier to proactively measure progress towards responsible purchasing goals.

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Guide

Responsible procurement

Download our guide outlining the benefits and best practices of responsible procurement.

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FAQs

  • Amazon Business provides tools that make it easy to discover small, diverse, and local suppliers or products with sustainability certifications. You can set buying policies to guide buyers to preferred products and suppliers.

  • You can implement an organization-wide or departmental Diversity Certifications Policy to highlight and prefer products sold by small and diverse sellers who hold select certifications.

  • You can set a Prefer local sellers policy to highlight offers and products from local sellers based on their state, county, or city on Amazon Business.

  • You can guide buyers toward more responsible purchasing using one or more buying policies available on Amazon Business, such as the Sustainability Certifications Policy, Local Sellers Policy, and Diversity Certifications Policy.

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  • Amazon Business simplifies reporting and tracking of spend towards certified diverse suppliers, local businesses, and products with sustainability certifications. You can create exportable order reports on Amazon Business Analytics that can be filter

  • If you're a seller and want to add your small business and/or diversity certifications to your profile, head over to Sell with Amazon.

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