Procurement

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Originally Published December 25, 2017 — Updated February 22, 2024. You’d never buy an expensive laptop online without doing some...
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  • In early January 2023, Coupa released a new Guided Experience for requests and purchases on the homepage of our Business Spend...
    Coupa
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    New Productivity-Boosting Feature: Guided Experiences
  • Originally Publish March 29, 2023 – Updated May 4, 2023. In 2022 alone, the global digital or e-Invoicing market hit $11.2...
    Nigel Pegg & Magnus Nyquist
    Nigel Pegg & Magnus Nyquist

    Nigel Pegg is VP & GM, CoupaLink, Coupa Software

    Magnus Nyquist is Sr. Director of Product Management, Coupa Software

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    3 Smart Invoicing and AP Automation Trends to Watch in 2023
  • The old way of managing purchase orders (POs) may be putting you and your business at risk You want to know...
    Nari Viswanathan
    Nari Viswanathan
    Sr. Director, Product Segment Marketing, Coupa

    Nari is currently Sr. Director of Product Segment Marketing at Coupa, where he helps bring products to markets in the areas of Supply Chain Design and Planning. Over the past 20 years, Nari has held VP and Director of Product Management, Research and Marketing roles at Aberdeen Group, River Logic, Steelwedge and E2open. He has significant experience building products from the ground up and managing the P&L for a product suite. He is a proven B2B marketer with expertise in content marketing, competitive intelligence, and positioning. He has published numerous thought leadership articles, whitepapers, blogs and delivered dozens of webinars during his career. Nari Viswanathan is a five times SDCExec Supply Chain Pro to Know award winner. Nari holds a master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

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    Built on the Market-Leading BSM Platform, Coupa Releases Purchase Order Collaboration to Support Direct Procurement and Complex Spend
  • Facing an increasingly uncertain economic environment, procurement and finance leaders must make every dollar matter. They’re challenged to increase operating margins...
    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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    finance and procurement leaders blog
  • Today’s post is written by Accenture. Accenture is a Coupa Global Elite Partner. Accenture is also a proud Titanium sponsor for...
    Accenture
    Accenture

    Accenture is a Coupa Global Elite Partner.

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    See How Accenture and Coupa Are Transforming Procurement at Inspire 2023
  • Today’s post is written by guest author Joni Johnson-Powe. Joni is a Partner in KPMG SALT – Transaction Tax Systems serving...
    Joni Johnson-Powe
    Joni Johnson-Powe
    Partner, Tax, SALT TTS, KPMG USA

    Joni is a Partner in KPMG SALT — Transaction Tax Systems serving as the practice lead for the West Region. Based in Denver, she has more than 20 years of experience in state and local tax, indirect tax automation, and tax process improvement and optimization.

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    Have You Left Your Procurement Tax Function in the Dark?
  • Today’s post was written in partnership with Jacob Gorm Larsen at Moneyball CPH, a Danish firm which provides services within digital...
    Jacob Gorm Larsen & Ahmad Jiwani
    Jacob Gorm Larsen & Ahmad Jiwani

    Jacob Gorm Larsen, Founder of Moneyball CPH, is recognized as a global thought leader in digital procurement. Before founding Moneyball CPH, he was the head of Digital Procurement at a global shipping company and gained additional experience in the digital area for Oil & Gas, Retail, and Off-shore.

    Ahmad Jiwani is Director of Product & Segment Marketing at Coupa Software, where he’s responsible for go-to-market activities related to Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning. Prior to Coupa, Ahmad held positions at Workday, SAP, Microsoft, and other leading tech companies. Ahmad completed his undergraduate studies in Economics at the University of Waterloo.

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    Building a Center of Excellence for Strategic Sourcing
  • Procurement is no longer simply about negotiating for the lowest cost. The rules of the game have changed. Since the pandemic...
    Coupa
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    8 Lessons in Procurement Excellence From CRH, the World Leader in Building Materials
  • Coupa has been positioned in the Leaders Category in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procurement Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment...
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    Coupa Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procurement Applications Vendor Assessment
  • In 2022, 83% of leaders in a recent survey reported at least one major disruption in their supply chain, and 50%...
    Stephanie Buck
    Stephanie Buck
    Content Marketing & Storytelling Manager, Coupa

    Stephanie is passionate about storytelling and helping leaders, businesses, and organizations transform the way they connect with their customers, prospects, and others. At Coupa, she leads storytelling and content production efforts for supply chain. She brings over a decade of experience supporting marketing and communications with impact-oriented enterprises and mission-driven organizations. She earned her Master's degree from the London School of Economics and her Bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University. She grew up in the Chicago area, but currently calls Washington, D.C. home.

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    What’s Ahead for Supply Chains in 2023?
  • Futureproof. That’s the word Coupa is naming as the Business Spend Management (BSM) word of the year. From climate change to...
    Coupa
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    2022 in Review: The Top BSM Stories of the Year
  • Throughout the year, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet many procurement leaders, customers, and partners around the globe. Reflecting on this...
    Michael van Keulen
    Michael van Keulen
    Chief Procurement Officer, Coupa

    Michael van Keulen (aka “MVK”), Coupa's Chief Procurement Officer, has been in finance and procurement for 20+ years at high growth global companies where he managed procurement transformations and digitized the procurement process, driving significant stakeholder value.  Michael is a procurement fanatic, passionate about elevating the role of procurement by applying best in class practices and enabling business spend management through the power of digitization.

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    The Year in Reflection as CPO and an Outlook to 2023
  • Building a best-in-class procurement organization is no small feat. Your procurement organization is delivering tangible cost reductions, producing a considerable volume...
    Avik Ghosh & Brent Sisson
    Avik Ghosh & Brent Sisson

    Avik Ghosh a Senior Director in the Product Strategy and Innovation Team at Coupa and focuses on developing new solutions that maximize business value using the power of data and community.ai.  HIs background in management consulting and engineering includes experiences with standing up procurement organizations, taxonomy design, strategic sourcing, finance transformation, and cost-restructuring, lean six-sigma process improvement.

    Brent Sisson is a Product Management Director at Coupa who focuses on multiple data first product offerings as well as Coupa’s community.ai initiative. The goal of all of these offerings is to bring advanced insights to customers' BSM practice to better enable their success.

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    Category Management 101: Why CPOs Can Use Categories to Add Value to Organizations
  • Every day, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) ask: How much? And when will we see the benefit? These two questions are more...
    Jake Adger
    Jake Adger
    Director of Product Marketing, Coupa Software

    Jake is a Product Marketing leader with extensive software experience including product strategy, customer needs, requirements, positioning, collateral, technical marketing, pricing, and field enablement.

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    5 Key Takeaways for CPOs and CFOs from Coupa’s Executive Summit in New York City
  • Chief Procurement Officers (CPO) have always known the importance of supply chains in the procurement process to keep the global economy...
    Kevin Farrell & Karen Sun
    Kevin Farrell & Karen Sun

    Kevin Farrell — VP, Global Strategic Alliances, Coupa Software
    With more than 32+ years of sales and alliance experience, Kevin serves as Coupa’s Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances and is based out of Boston, MA. In this role, he and his team develop new opportunities with Coupa's Business Spend Management platform engaging with the largest global Alliance Partners.

    Karen Sun — Sr. Director, Channel Marketing, Coupa Software
    Karen leads Channel Marketing for Coupa's Global System Integrator, Management Consulting, and Managed Services Provider partners. With 15 years of cross-functional experience in Strategic Alliances, Product Marketing, and SaaS Customer Success Programs, Karen is focused on bringing the most value to Coupa customers in collaboration with our ecosystem partners.

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    Accenture Study: How Procurement Provides New Business Value