Tofino, Amazon Integrate On Seamless Procurement

Tofino Software, which works in eProcurement and maintenance repair and operations (MRO) management, is integrating today with Amazon Business, a press release said Tuesday (May 11).

The direct punchout to Amazon comes as a way to simplify ordering while managing approvals after checkout, making it so that there’s a good level of spend control and visibility.

By integrating with services like SAP, Infor or Microsoft Dynamics, Tofino can transfer cost and inventory data. Tofino’s services can help with things like eProcurement and MRO management, allowing for less effort and more accuracy.

Tofino also boasts straightforward pricing and accessibility for users. Recently released iOS and Android mobile apps allow for user choice on how they want to connect to Tofino. That comes with what the company touts as an easy way to “[empower] users to make purchases to get their jobs done while reinforcing business rules and approvals.”

Tofino customers range from manufacturing, distribution, retail, construction, healthcare and facility management, the release said.

“Integrating Amazon into Tofino has been a huge asset to my job. Order entry is so much easier, as it pulls information directly from Amazon into the purchase order copy, reducing typing and calculation errors. The process flows very smoothly and has reduced my order entry time substantially,” says Ross Dreiblatt, procurement director, City Furniture, according to the press release.

PYMNTS wrote recently that every corporate buyer is also a consumer, which means professionals that have become accustomed to quick, easy purchase experiences in their consumer-to-business transactions are likely to yearn for such things in their B2B payments too.

B2B transactions, however, have usually involved cumbersome payment flows, in which the corporate buyers mail out paper checks after receiving invoices via mail.

That said, in the wake of the pandemic, both consumers and businesses have been boosting their online transactions. With consumers now used to eCommerce transactions, B2B merchants could be wise to catch up, PYMNTS wrote.