More time for the children

In future, everything children in our crèches and nurseries need each day to play games, enjoy craft activities and learn new things will be ordered from and supplied by Amazon Business – for the most part, on a regional, sustainable basis. This will give our educators even more time to concentrate on looking after the children, as well as help the environment.

Konstantin Eckerl, Head of IT at MINIHAUS München, explains the decision to go with Amazon Business: “The procurement process used to involve a great deal of complexity.” There used to be almost 20 Amazon accounts at the nurseries and every invoice had to be passed on to Accounts individually. MINIHAUS München now has just one Amazon account with several sub-accounts for the individual nurseries. In future, it will be possible to bundle and reconcile invoices monthly, saving valuable time.

Staff at all locations can also quite simply order themselves what they need for their work with the children – from a new picture book to moulds for the sandpit to printer paper. “This has made the procurement process more transparent and efficient for local staff, too,” states Konstantin Eckerl.

In the background, specified guidelines ensure that budgets are maintained and that people don’t order items procured centrally by the Administration department – such as computer accessories or printers for example. Konstantin Eckerl thinks that the opportunity to consider sustainability is a particularly positive feature: “We can also buy regional and sustainable products through Amazon, and to achieve this, we have specified that these products appear at the top of the search list and are identified by a corresponding button.” (jh/ks)