Amazon Business launched Value Intelligence, a tool that quantifies cost savings, operational efficiency, and purchase compliance using an organization's own order data benchmarked against independent third-party research, allowing procurement teams to demonstrate their complete business impact beyond just price.
- Three-part performance view: Value Intelligence captures cost savings, operational efficiency gains, and purchase compliance in one transparent dashboard
- Data-driven calculations: Every metric is calculated from an organization's own order data at the line-item level and benchmarked against independent third-party research
- Transparent methodology: Users can see and adjust all inputs, ensuring figures reflect actual prices paid and hold up to finance team scrutiny
- Enhanced Amazon Business Assistant: The conversational tool now tracks orders, speeds up approvals, discovers savings, and analyzes spend within existing approval workflows and policies
Amazon Business launched Amazon Business Value Intelligence, a new experience that quantifies cost savings, operational efficiency, and purchase compliance in a single, complete view.
Each figure is calculated from an organization’s own Amazon Business data and grounded in independent third-party benchmarks, with transparent inputs users can see and adjust.
"Procurement has always been about more than price, but price is what gets reported because it's the easiest thing to measure," says Shelley Salomon, worldwide VP of Amazon Business. "We designed Value Intelligence to change the conversation from 'what did this cost?' to 'what value is procurement creating?' Now leaders can see the savings, time back, and off-policy spend prevented in one view, and confidently show the full impact of their buying strategy, not just the price."
Key takeaways:
· Value Intelligence captures and shares insights across three key areas of procurement performance:
Cost savings: Savings is often what a procurement team is judged on first, yet it is scattered across pricing programs, discounts, and benefits teams have to assemble by hand. Value Intelligence brings those together, calculated from an organization’s own order data at the line-item level against a validated reference price, so the number reflects the prices organizations actually paid.
Operational efficiency: Efficiency gains are often written off as intangible because they are hard to tie to a number. Value Intelligence quantifies operational efficiency from an organization's own Amazon Business activity, with transparent inputs users can see and adjust, so the value holds up instead of being waved away.
Purchase compliance: For many organizations, policy adherence is a growing priority. Value Intelligence surfaces purchase compliance alongside savings and efficiency, so teams can show the value they deliver beyond price.
· Across all three, every figure shows its method and source, built from an organization’s own order data and benchmarked against independent third-party research. Procurement managers can stop assembling reports across programs, finance teams get numbers they can reconcile against their own records, and procurement leaders can walk into the board conversation with a value story that holds up.
· Meanwhile, Amazon Business Assistant expanded from a general-purpose resource into a conversational tool that speaks to each customer’s business account orders, spend, and activity.
· Customers can now track orders, speed up approvals, discover savings, allocate payments and analyze spend.
· Amazon Business Assistant works within the approval workflows, spending limits, and purchasing policies the organization already has in place.
