This Industry Leader Saves Time and Thousands of Dollars a Year Thanks to One Simple Solution Keller has a long track record of success in excavation. Now, it's realizing impactful efficiencies in its offices spanning five continents.

Even a well-established company with a long history of success can benefit from new smart business buying tools and strategies to help become more organized and efficient.

Take Keller for example. Founded by Johann Keller in Germany in 1860, the company is the largest geotechnical specialty contractor in the world. Keller develops innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions to challenges like building deep foundations, ground improvement, groundwater control, releveling structures, slope stabilization, and more.

While Keller has the work force and expertise to get all types of ground ready to build on across the entire construction sector, the business isn't only about laying cement and operating heavy machinery. With approximately 9,500 employees and operations across five continents, Keller has a massive workforce that requires office supplies and other supporting materials for these employees to do their best work.

A simple solution that helps keep a large company running right.

At Keller, trying to manage things like tail spend, product availability, and time spent on procurement activities across such a large organization was a challenge. That changed, however, when they established a company-wide Amazon Business account with a Business Prime plan.

"The primary motivation was to consolidate the plethora of our individual Keller purchasing accounts, decrease our shipping costs, expand access to two-day shipping, and save time and money," explains Ethan Hoover, a Corporate Buyer for Keller North America, which is based in Hanover, Md. In his role, Hoover's goal is to help centralize, standardize, and optimize Keller's corporate procurement.

In addition to discounted pricing, Hoover says Keller is leveraging several Amazon Business account features. One is Single Sign-on, which gives Keller a secure, centralized way to enable and disable buyer access throughout the company. Keller also makes use of Spend Visibility. Rich with data visualizations, this feature lets you to track your buying patterns to help optimize savings—allowing you to identify purchasing trends made by individuals and groups within your organization. With this information, you can optimize spend via supplier consolidation, bulk purchasing, and more.

Another significant feature for Keller is FREE Two-Day Shipping. Business Prime members can choose from more than 100 million items on Amazon that will arrive two business days after they ship. Gone are the days of ordering office supplies, then waiting and wondering when they may turn up.

Seeing results that make a positive difference.

Enacting operational change across a massive company can be complicated. But it doesn't have to be. Since Keller created their Business Prime account six years ago, the company has seen many positive results.

Hoover says Keller saves approximately $30,000 to $40,000 annually on shipping and discounts, averaging more than 7,500 orders each year. Keller employees save time by about 50% across the end-user ordering process, delivery time, and accounts payable resources. "Our results have been fantastic," he says.

"Our purpose is to build the foundations for a sustainable future. This is why we're here," Hoover says. "With time and money saved, we can focus on winning and executing work and the support of those efforts."

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