Coupa To Acquire Scoutbee: AI To Connect Buyers and Suppliers

Coupa is set to acquire Scoutbee, an AI-powered supplier discovery platform and pioneer in search technology that transforms how buyers and suppliers connect. This strategic investment creates a more collaborative and efficient two-sided network by using AI to help organizations make smarter and more confident sourcing decisions while suppliers benefit from new business opportunities and easier onboarding. With Scoutbee, Coupa is creating the world’s most intelligent sourcing network — one that delivers faster, more trusted matches and unlocks new value for both buyers and suppliers. The combined AI-powered network from Coupa and Scoutbee will seamlessly connect buyers and suppliers, unlocking instant supplier discovery, real-time risk and ESG insights, and high-value partner opportunities — empowering businesses to move faster, stay resilient, and make more profitable decisions in the face of uncertainty.

In today’s era of global trade defined by disruption, complexity, and untapped opportunity, supply chain leaders, sourcing strategists, and global operations teams must do more than stay resilient. They must turn unpredictability into advantage. Together, Coupa’s leading AI-native platform for Total Spend Management and Scoutbee’s rich supplier intelligence enable organizations to adapt at speed, building agile supply chains, opening new sourcing channels, supporting growth by expanding into markets, and monitoring costs with confidence while managing risk, sustainability, and profitability. This acquisition strengthens Coupa’s commitment to building the world’s most data-rich, AI-powered network for buyers and suppliers — one that grows smarter and more valuable with every connection and delivers on Coupa’s vision for autonomous spend management.

What is Scoutbee?

Scoutbee is a leading AI engine and network that uses advanced large language models (LLMs) to transform how suppliers are discovered and how they promote themselves for maximum visibility. By delivering trusted, comprehensive matches, Scoutbee simplifies supplier discovery, streamlines workflows, and accelerates the procurement process by quickly connecting buyers’ unique needs with vetted suppliers.

• What this means for buyers: No more long searches or limited visibility. Scoutbee’s AI gives procurement, sourcing, and category management teams instant recommendations for trusted suppliers who fit their project needs based on a vast range of criteria — from qualifications, risk, and certifications to customer base and experience. These comprehensive insights and AI-powered search capabilities enable faster, more proactive, and confident decisions.
• What this means for suppliers: Suppliers spend millions on marketing and send thousands of emails just to access new opportunities. With Scoutbee’s AI inside Coupa’s ecosystem, that friction is removed: Suppliers are instantly discovered by buyers when it matters, and through the Coupa Sourcing Event Marketplace, those opportunities can turn into real business. It also simplifies the supplier onboarding and verification process.

A better buyer and supplier experience

In today’s complex supply ecosystem, both buyers and suppliers face friction and complexity. Buyers struggle with fragmented supplier data and slow onboarding, while suppliers fight for visibility, timely payments, and lower transaction costs — all of which restrict growth and innovation. With Scoutbee’s AI and Coupa’s leading AI-native platform coming together, we’re creating a network where both buyers and suppliers can engage more efficiently, discover each other more intelligently, and unlock mutual value through real-time sourcing connections.

Coupa and Scoutbee already have joint customers, including Walmart and Unilever, realizing the combined benefits of these platforms and their advanced data. As we co-innovate together through one unified platform, the two-sided network will gain new opportunities through an enhanced, data-driven experience as early as 2026 during the first release. Here’s how buyers and suppliers will continue to benefit:

• Enriching supplier data: The integration will synchronize, enrich, and clean supplier profiles within the Coupa Supplier Portal, creating accurate and search-optimized profiles for the more than 10 million suppliers within the Coupa Supplier Network.
• Enabling AI search: Scoutbee's AI-powered search will be embedded directly into the Coupa platform. This means users will get trusted and credible supplier search results enriched by Coupa data and actions alongside Scoutbee's internet search capabilities, all within their regular workflow. This additional functionality expands the supplier search results while enabling the same confidence and fueling faster decisions.
• Streamlining supplier onboarding: Scoutbee improves the onboarding process by providing up to 80% of the necessary data, strengthening Coupa’s ability to automatically prefill supplier profiles and orchestrate workflows based on any missing or risky information. This speeds up supplier onboarding, significantly reduces manual effort, and drives business efficiency.
• Enhancing the Coupa Supplier Portal: Scoutbee will be combined with the Coupa Supplier Portal, allowing suppliers to increase visibility of their profiles by Coupa customers and the broader market.
• Creating new revenue opportunities: By elevating supplier discovery and boosting visibility of profiles, suppliers will be able to find and work with new businesses more easily. Coupa will enable these suppliers to get paid faster and more reliably while reducing transaction costs.

"Coupa and Scoutbee share a fundamental belief that better data leads to better AI, better decisions, and ultimately, a better world through more resilient supply chains. Together, we are creating the world's most comprehensive, dynamic, and data-rich network. This acquisition enables us to deliver a truly effortless buyer-supplier matching experience and further enhances our network that will power the future of global trade."

— Salva Lombardo, Coupa Chief Product and Technology Officer of Coupa

"We founded Scoutbee with the premise that AI can transform real-time sourcing and procurement by enabling buyers and suppliers to seamlessly connect, collaborate, and transact. Joining Coupa allows us to bring our mission to a global stage, and provide the world’s most data-rich and comprehensive buyer-supplier network and B2B marketplace at scale."

— Gregor Stühler, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Scoutbee

How AI is building the network that powers the future of global trade

Scoutbee's platform was built using large language models, advanced AI search, and agentic experiences to capture intent and deliver trustworthy results. Coupa's leading AI platform for Total Spend Management applies AI that is powered by community-generated data insights. Coupa AI, informed by more than $8 trillion in real-time, global transactional spend across a network of over 10 million buyers and suppliers accumulated over nearly two decades, provides predictive and actionable insights, proactive decisions, and automated actions to help businesses make smarter, more profitable decisions and improve operating margins. By bringing together Scoutbee’s expertise with Coupa’s AI-native platform and network, customers and suppliers will benefit through greater transparency, enhanced efficiency, and improved collaboration. The enhanced features will appear as native Coupa functions within core applications like sourcing, contracts, and source-to-pay, as well as in the Coupa Supplier Portal. The integration also extends to include the portfolio of Coupa Navi™ AI agents, to redefine productivity and streamline workflows.

Coupa and Scoutbee aren’t just responding to the challenges of today — we’re building the world’s most data-rich, AI-powered trade network. One that empowers both sides of the marketplace to move faster, adapt smarter, and build the resilient supply ecosystems of the future.