Partner Guest Post: Lightning-Fast Procurement Thanks to Amazon Business Integration

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Over 40 years of working with schools, we’ve never heard of a district with so much free time they spend it poring over catalogs. That’s why Amazon Business e-Procurement technology is fully integrated into Skyward’s ERP platform! You’re invited to dive into this exciting process in an upcoming webinar. Invest a little time learning, and next year’s procurement process gets a whole lot easier—and your school business office saves a ton of time.

Amazon Business offers customized catalogs that include millions of products. Think textbooks, computers, whiteboards, art materials, and science supplies for classrooms. School business officers (SBOs) and their teams can also find music and sports equipment, cleaning supplies and furniture, and even catering equipment to furnish a comfortable and enriching learning environment.

All the moving parts in a school budget call for a clever and comprehensive strategy to keep each purchase well-documented and organized in Skyward’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Schools can launch the Amazon Business catalog within Skyward to access the purchasing system. Select the items needed and use Amazon’s familiar checkout process to complete the order right in Skyward.

Amazon Business streamlines purchasing from prefilled purchase order lines and facilitates the automatic generation of purchase orders, approvals, and purchase reconciliation while Skyward helps ensure compliance and policy control.

All this adds up to time savings schools can reinvest into providing a great place to work and learn. The SBO is deeply connected to the inner workings of a district and is a key defender of privileged information. Streamlining procurement processes not only saves time but also makes it easier to protect the SBO from internal and external fraud.

We invite you to join Amazon Business and Skyward for a free 30-minute virtual webinar on Wednesday, June 12th: Amazon Business & Skyward: Streamline Purchasing & Invoicing - Register Here.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about the Amazon Business and Skyward purchasing integration for both SMS 2.0 and Qmlativ and how these solutions work together to help school districts save time and automate purchasing processes.

Spending too much time reconciling statements each month? Skyward Qmlativ customers can also take advantage of electronic invoicing with Amazon Business, which helps save time and reduce errors.

Ready to get started with your integration? After the webinar join cohosts from Amazon Business and Skyward for virtual workshops to set up your integration in real time! Register here and we look forward to seeing you there!


To learn more about how Skyward and Amazon Business are partnering to support the needs of educators, visit http://www.skyward.com/amazon.