Now Businesses Can Get the Best Deals Online Too

Let’s face it, your procurement organization does not have the time or resources to research every purchase and negotiate the best price.  Especially for the types of purchases that are unlikely to be repeated often, or that don’t carry a huge price tag.  Unfortunately, though, quite a bit of indirect spend tends to fit that profile.  In fact, more than 60% of the spend that goes through the Coupa platform is of the free-form variety, meaning requisitions and orders that fall outside of negotiated pricing on supplier catalogues and punchout sites.  For some companies, that translates into a significant amount of spend.

So how do you get the best deals on those types of requisitions?

Simple.  Empower your people to do exactly what they do in their personal lives.  Shop online and find the best deals.  Coupa iRequest makes it possible, and easy, to requisition any item from any website, and still apply the approval workflows and controls of the Coupa purchasing system.   Now every employee can help the company save money.

Use the web to find the best deals, and add them to your Coupa shopping cart with just a few clicks. Simply drag the iRequest bookmarket into your bookmarks bar, find the site that has what you need at the best price, click the iRequest button in your browser bar, and that item will automatically be added to a requisition in Coupa.  All you need to do is add the price, and submit the requisition.  You can even use Coupa’s new embedded price comparison engines to make sure you found the best price.  And once your requisition is approved, your purchasing department will have all the information they need to quickly place an online order with the help of the new Coupa iBuy feature.

Coupa iRequest makes it easy to capture great deals and save the company money by enabling employees to requisition what they need from virtually any website.