Just had a meeting with our “Amazon Business Account Exec” and they tried to make the pitch about doing more with the business features available. Our company has no purchasing team/department and all departments handle procurement themselves.

Our Amazon account has existed for 10+ years (well before Amazon Business was a thing) and as such it was never strategically set up for what the Businesses program is now. We have 6 other consumer accounts registered with our company’s domain suffix and each of these is paying for prime (and each account represents a different department within our company).

We are currently in the “Amazon Business Essentials “ program for $179 per year and allows up to 3 users. Making the pitch that Amazon business “Small” program would be $479 per year and allow up to 10 users makes sense on paper, as it would be a savings versus what is being paid by the individual accounts for prime, but….i have a feeling I wound be starting a turf war if I recommend they we go all in one a centralized Amazon Business account. The other departments value their “privacy” and wouldn’t want to or benefit from consolidating purchasing efforts. I do know that individual groups can be created and permissions/ boundaries can be put in place to prevent visibility to other user’s purchases.

So for those that have been in a similar situation, do you find that using and going all in on Amazon Business for your company was a good thing? If we do go forward with this it will be IT’s responsibility ( in our case) to administer the Amazon Business account like any other 3rd party IT platform/service.