Tailored Controls



Tailored Controls

With the American Express Corporate Purchasing Solutions program, you can control how, where and how much your employees spend on indirect products and services.

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Flexibility is Key

Tailor a program that suits your spending patterns and cost control priorities with flexible spending limits. You can set and maintain limits at all levels: vendor, industry, commodity, transaction, and Cardmember level. American Express Preferred Supplier Controls even allow you to enable or block spending at the vendor location level.

To simplify your search for the right supplier utilize the B2B Supplier Directory. Search by location, SIC code, legal status, or ownership demographic. Click here to explore the B2B Supplier Directory.

Choose the specific Card type that suits your company's needs. You determine the way charging happens by plastic or by account number. With the Corporate Defined Expense Program (CDEP), you can even control charges by time period and finite limits. It's an ideal solution for specific, short-term events, such as employee relocation, company meetings or individual projects.

Boost your purchasing power by channeling spend exclusively to preferred suppliers. Consolidating spend with fewer suppliers can greatly increase your ability to take advantage of discounts from existing contracts, and may help ensure future preferential rates.

Increased Savings

Companies that use American Express Corporate Purchasing Solutions report an additional 33% savings over competitive programs due to differentiated program features. They also report hard dollar saving up to 6.2% on indirect spend, and reduced per-transaction costs up to 85%.*

Customized, preset controls help ensure compliance, streamline approvals, and protect your company from fraud.

"For me, the best way is negotiation with our suppliers. With everybody using the Card, I can better tell where we're spending the money, and I can then contact those suppliers to negotiate better deals. I use the Card data to direct my negotiation strategies."
ON Semiconductor, 2006
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*Procurement Card Comparative Analysis, prepared for American Express by Accenture, 2007

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