Building the Business Case for Coupa e-Procurement

This section of the website is devoted to helping you evaluate the potential dollars and cents impact of an investment in an on-demand e-procurement solution.  And to helping you build out a credible business case for your organization to support a decision to move forward (hopefully with Coupa!).

Nine Core Cost Savings Metrics to Estimate e-Procurement ROI

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In the pages that follow, we present Coupa’s point of view on nine cost-savings e-Procurement metrics.  Every organization is different, so it’s unlikely that  all nine will be relevant for your organization.  And some will have much more potential impact than others.  When you are ready to perform an ROI analysis, Coupa can help!  We have a spreadsheet model based on nine metrics that address four categories of potential cost savings:

  1. Cost savings from spending less
  2. Cost savings from paying less
  3. Cost savings from automation and efficiency gains
  4. Cost savings form better visibility into, and predictability of, company spend

Compare TCO against traditional enterprise software applications, and

calculator-promos-tcoA complete ROI analysis will estimate  financial benefits for the organization, but also take into account the total cost of ownership (TCO) for that investment decision.  Coupa e-Procurement is a subscription business – software offered as a service over the internet.  That means there is no hardware to buy, software to install, or upgrades to apply.  This model varies from traditional premise-based enterprise software applications where you license and install the software on your hardware.  To determine TCO, then, you must compare an investment in an on-demand solution like Coupa against a traditional software alternative.  We have three tools to help you with your TCO analysis:

  1. Read up on TCO variables for on-demand vs on-premise software purchase.
  2. Download The Costs and Benefits of On-Demand vs On-Premise Procurement, a Coupa white paper.
  3. Run through a few back-of-the-envelope TCO scenarios with Coupa’s TCO calculator