When Amazon  realized that businesses were already shopping on their site, there was just one thing to do, the head of commercial customers for Amazon Business Martin Rohde told me: Build a specialized eCommerce platform just for B2B buyers. That platform, Amazon Business, has more than 1M business customers and 85,000 suppliers — all of whom, Rohde says, address the 20 percent of the business purchasing spend that isn’t predictable, nor related to the core operations of the business. …see more