Finance & AP

Questions Business Leaders Should Ask About AI
There’s a lot of confusion around AI these days – especially for people in key business operations roles like finance...
Coupa
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  • What is a P-Card? P-Cards — also known as payment cards, procurement cards, and purchase cards — are a type of...
    Coupa
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    Why Virtual Cards are Better at Spend Management Than P-Cards
  • To compete as a global business and avoid compliance headaches, it's imperative to keep on top of global invoicing trends. Today...
    Abigail Myers-Antiaye
    Abigail Myers-Antiaye
    Senior Product Compliance Manager, Coupa

    Abigail Myers-Antiaye is Coupa’s Senior Product Compliance Manager. After receiving her Law LLB (Hons) Degree from University of Nottingham, she studied the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at BPP University London in Holborn. For over five years, she has worked in Product Compliance with a specific focus on Invoicing and Global Indirect Tax Compliance, and has significant experience with helping companies understand and implement invoicing solutions in line with indirect tax rules.

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    3 Global Invoicing Trends to Watch
  • Growing companies reach a point where ERPs alone no longer cut it. They fall short in effectively helping businesses reduce their...
    Kelly Casey
    Kelly Casey
    Field & Account Based Marketing Marketing Manager, Coupa

    Kelly Casey holds a B.A. from Arizona State University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    3 Ways Finance Organizations Extend the Value of Their NetSuite ERP with Coupa
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed how businesses view and manage their priorities. More than ever before, organizations realize the importance...
    Rajiv Ramachandran
    Rajiv Ramachandran
    Vice President, Product Strategy & Management, Coupa Pay, Coupa Software

    Rajiv Ramachandran is the product executive responsible for the overall strategy, management and engineering of Coupa’s B2B payment platform — Coupa Pay. With over 20+ years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Rajiv has deep knowledge and experience on SaaS solutions, Cloud, and On-Premise based integrations of financial platforms and streamlining B2B payment experiences and processes across the enterprise. Over the last 4 years Rajiv has led the launch, the growth, and the adoption of Coupa Pay for all Coupa customers in one of Coupa’s most successful product launches. With an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business, Rajiv is also a constant innovator, looking to disrupt the B2B payments space, with multiple patent pending innovations against his name.

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    How Back-Office Modernization is Driving Better Business Sustainability
  • American Express and Coupa have a partnership and joint solution which provides clients with integrated virtual card payments in Coupa Pay...
    J.R. Robertson
    J.R. Robertson
    Vice President, Coupa Pay, Coupa Software

    J.R. Robertson is Vice President, Coupa Pay, and an entrepreneurial enthusiast and culture builder at Coupa. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Marketing Management from California State University, Chico, and currently resides in the smoky state of California.

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Check Usage Slows as the Pandemic Increases Interest in E-Payment Solutions
  • Inefficiency, lack of spend optimization, and out-of-policy spend and compliance negatively impact payment processes. With these challenges, how do you get...
    Gene Cook
    Gene Cook
    Senior Director, Coupa Pay Alliance Partners

    Gene has been an integral part to the success of the Coupa Pay alliances built and developed while at Coupa for the past year and a half. Developing the go-to-market strategy and success of these partnerships, all while delivering unsurpassed client value, is what Gene thinks about every single day. Prior to that, Gene ran the major bank alliances at SAP Concur for several years. Gene and his family reside in beautiful Upstate New York.

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    5 Payment Pain Points and How to Solve Them
  • The oil and gas industry has experienced more uncertainty in 2020 than ever before, which is largely due to the pandemic...
    Armando Urias
    Armando Urias
    VP Coupa - Southwest

    Armando Urias, VP Coupa - Southwest, is a seasoned software sales executive with a passion for driving real results. He has spent the majority of his career working with various Oil & Gas companies to enable business transformation, and currently resides in Houston, TX.

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    Oil and Gas: Lessons Learned in 2020 and How to Prepare for the Future
  • With Treasury rates at record lows, many treasury departments are looking for short-term, risk-free investments for excess cash. Early payment discounts...
    Amit Baid & J.R. Robertson
    Amit Baid & J.R. Robertson

    Amit Baid is the Vice President and General Manager, Coupa Pay, and is responsible for managing all aspects of Coupa’s Working Capital Optimization Solutions Business. Prior to Coupa, Amit founded, TradeFin, which was India's first working capital marketplace. TradeFin was acquired by Coupa. He is passionate about building and scaling software products and businesses. He has an MBA from The Wharton School, an Electronics Engineering Degree from NIT in India, and resides in New Jersey.

    J.R. Robertson, Vice President, Coupa Pay, is an entrepreneurial enthusiast and culture builder at Coupa. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Marketing Management from California State University, Chico, and currently resides in the smoky state of California.

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    How to Succeed with Early Payment Discount Programs
  • Placing tighter reigns on Travel and Expense (T&E)—which is second only to payroll as the most controllable expense for most companies—is...
    Tracy Gao
    Tracy Gao
    Tracy Gao, Director Product Marketing

    Based in the Bay Area, Tracy is a product marketing leader at Coupa managing go-to-market for platform releases and and several key BSM areas.

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    Why Insight Into Corporate Travel & Expense Is More Valuable Now Than Ever Before
  • Accounts Payable (AP) managers often lament how they’re viewed by their executive team: "We aren’t seen as strategic to the business!"...
    Ariane Lindblom
    Ariane Lindblom
    Vice President, Product & Segment Marketing, Coupa Software

    Ariane Lindblom is Vice President, Product & Segment Marketing at Coupa Software focused on mid-sized and fast-growth business best practices at Coupa. She is passionate about helping organizations to spend smarter to fuel growth, innovation, and unparalleled success.

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    How to Free Accounts Payable from Tactical Work
  • Businesses of all sizes have scaled their contingent workforce over the past decade. A new report by research firm Ardent Partners...
    Tamir Shafer
    Tamir Shafer
    Vice President of Coupa Contingent Workforce (CCW)

    Tamir Shafer is responsible for strategically growing this segment of Coupa’s business. Tamir holds a BSc in Finance from the University at Albany, SUNY, and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.

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    Resilience People
  • For years, our focus as CFOs was to allocate capital across many competing growth objectives. Tasked to build scalable finance processes...
    Todd Ford
    Todd Ford
    Chief Financial Officer, Coupa Software

    Todd Ford has served as Chief Financial Officer at Coupa Software since 2015, holds a BS in Accounting from Santa Clara University, and resides in Silicon Valley, California.

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    Register Now for Coupa Spend Matters ProcureCon
  • The U.S. has experienced the longest period of economic expansion in history. Prior to the global outbreak of the coronavirus, many...
    Jeff Collins, Ph.D.
    Jeff Collins, Ph.D.
    VP, Business Value Engineering, Coupa Software

    Jeff Collins is a customer-focused value engineering professional with more than 22 years of experience working with companies across industries to discover and realize business performance improvement and competitive advantage through strategic investment. He is a passionate advocate for partnering with customers to uncover high value opportunities to leverage technology and enterprise software, especially Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Mobility, and Cloud.

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    Professional in a rain storm taking pictures of clouds
  • For many organizations operating on a global scale, the payments process can bring considerable challenges and risks. With payments made to...
    Ravi Thakur
    Ravi Thakur
    Senior Vice President, Business Acceleration, Coupa Software

    Ravi Thakur has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise software, holding executive level positions from support, development, professional services, operations, pre-sales, and more.

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    Coupa Pay
  • What’s the typical fraudster thinking? If somebody asked you to describe a typical fraudster, what would you say? How would you...
    Joshua Danielson
    Joshua Danielson
    Senior Product Manager, AI/Machine Learning, Coupa Software

    Joshua Danielson holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and resides in San Francisco.

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    Businessman Walking as Shadow Shows Him Running with a Bag