Coupa Blog

Coupa Empower celebrates International Women’s Day with month-long events, breaking barriers around the globe.

• April 08, 2019
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• Liz Oseguera
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• Coupa

As a woman and a mom of a 19-month-old daughter, I am very passionate about workplace diversity and equality. Throughout my career I have made it a personal goal to get involved in women’s initiatives wherever I am, and it just so happened that upon joining Coupa in early 2018,…Read blog post

Coupa Leaders Celebrate International Women’s Day and Share Perspectives on Empowerment

• March 07, 2019
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• Coupa Empower
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• Coupa

The Coupa Empower program uses the depth and breadth of the Coupa community to connect women across our ecosystem of employees, customers, and partners, and is committed to creating meaningful cross-sector relationships, expanding leadership skills, and providing mentorship and inspiration to improve diversity, inclusion, and equality across every industry.  …Read blog post

What Top Management Consultants Say are the 7 Most Important E-Procurement Trends Happening Right Now

• February 21, 2019
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• Suhas Sreedhar
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• Procurement

The Hackett Group, CrossCountry Consulting, and Acquis Consulting Group are seasoned experts at helping businesses implement e-procurement and digital procure-to-pay (P2P) business spend management solutions. Given their immense experience “in the trenches,” we here at Coupa thought we’d pick their collective brains about what they’re seeing as the most…Read blog post

AI-Powered Fraud Detection Is Here. Here’s How to Use It.

• February 07, 2019
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• Kimberly Dimicco
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• Finance & AP

A company was charged for an unauthorized $30,000 squirrel hunting trip. You read that right – squirrel hunting. A logistics company unknowingly paid a supplier that didn’t exist to maintain infrastructure that didn’t exist. The AP team at a technology company received an invoice for goods never purchased.…Read blog post

Making Automation Sing – What Coupa CPO Dina Ghobrial Says is the Secret to Success as a Procurement & Transformation Leader

• January 31, 2019
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• Coupa
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• Coupa

Coupa hit many milestones in 2018, not the least of which was hiring our first Chief Procurement Officer, Dina Ghobrial. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Dina spent most of her childhood in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, returning to Egypt to attend the American University in Cairo, where she attained her…Read blog post