“ What Amazon Business strives for is to support our customers in reducing not only product costs but the total cost of ownership, by consolidating millions of suppliers from around the globe... into one platform”
Céline Vuillequez Vice President Amazon Business Europe
and it will help them automate manual, repetitive tasks. It will schedule meetings, create dashboards and run research in minutes. That’ s what Amazon Quick will bring to customers – to remove the busy work and allow them to concentrate on the truly strategic part of procurement. Prime Business members receive 20 % off the Quick Plus plan, which supports up to 300 users.
These changes are what we mean when we say procurement is no longer a back-office function focused purely on cost avoidance and how it’ s shifting towards being a strategic driver – supporting organisations with innovation, efficiency and supply chain resilience.
You have the NHS with you on stage tomorrow, as well as Sony – two organisations at quite opposite ends of the spectrum. What would you say is the one problem procurement teams are coming to you for help with? Managing complexity. We want to make smart purchasing simple and faster. Procurement teams are now facing multiple priorities – total cost of ownership, supply chain resilience, efficiency. They need to do more with less. What unites them: the need for better visibility, smarter tools and the ability to make data-driven decisions without adding manual work.
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