Procurement

RFI vs. RFQ vs. RFP: Which Does Your Company Need?
Originally Published December 25, 2017 — Updated February 22, 2024. You’d never buy an expensive laptop online without doing some...
Coupa
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  • What’s the second largest spend category in your company? If your company is like most companies, the answer will be “Statements...
    Maria DeJong
    Maria DeJong
    Director, Coupa Contingent Workforce (CCW), Coupa Software

    Maria DeJong is a Coupa Contingent Workforce (CCW) Director, responsible for highlighting the differentiation and capabilities of CCW. Maria has enjoyed over 10 years in the contingent workforce management space and resides in Denver, CO.

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    Vendor Management Software Best Practices
  • Third-party risk management has been a complex challenge for companies of all sizes within many industries for years. The COVID-19 pandemic...
    Brian Shaw
    Brian Shaw
    Third-Party Risk Management and Compliance, Coupa Software

    Brian Shaw oversees Coupa’s Third-Party Risk Management and Compliance practice, ensuring customer success, focusing on results and striving for excellence through value as a service. He was formerly Director, Financial Services Sales for Opus Global (Hiperos and Alacra), which Coupa acquired in 2018.

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    3 Key Elements to Effective Third-Party Risk Management
  • Over the past few years, a rise in regulatory activity related to third-party and supplier risk management was already making it...
    Brian Shaw
    Brian Shaw
    Third-Party Risk Management and Compliance, Coupa Software

    Brian Shaw oversees Coupa’s Third-Party Risk Management and Compliance practice, ensuring customer success, focusing on results and striving for excellence through value as a service. He was formerly Director, Financial Services Sales for Opus Global (Hiperos and Alacra), which Coupa acquired in 2018.

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    EERM Survey: Businesses Unprepared to Manage Third-Party Risk During COVID-19
  • The focus: How procurement leaders can best manage their digitization journey to effectively deliver value across the organization. The event: At...
    Coupa
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    Smart Digitization in Procurement
  • Analyzing vendor data is an essential component to optimizing vendor management and maintaining the integrity of an organization’s service and product...
    Daryl Hammett
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    The Importance of Validating Vendor Data
  • “From a procurement process perspective, there's definitely a need – especially in times like these – to come together across boundaries...
    Coupa
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  • We recently unveiled our new series, Spendsetters: The Road to Resilience. The series explores the heroic efforts of the Business Spend...
    Coupa
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    Spendsetters: Road to Resilience
  • Every industry faces unique challenges in these uncertain times. For online retailers, ensuring customer orders are fulfilled while keeping the business...
    Coupa
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    Zalando Purse, a Scarf and a Watch
  • From: The Chairpersons of many Boards of Directors To: Procurement Everywhere – Please Step Up and Lead... It's been a long...
    Rob Bernshteyn
    Rob Bernshteyn
    CEO & Chairman, Coupa Software

    Rob Bernshteyn previously served as part of the executive management team at SuccessFactors (now part of SAP), running product marketing & management for this leader in HCM SaaS software. He also worked in product management at Siebel Systems, management consulting at McKinsey, and SAP systems integration consulting at Accenture. Bernshteyn holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems from the University of New York at Albany.

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    Important Notice for Procurement
  • Big businesses source vendors through directory-type databases known as supplier registration portals and vendor registration portals. These portals, which among the...
    Daryl Hammett
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    Big Businesses use Supplier Registration Portals
  • Every business has contracts. They form the foundation of any enterprise, influencing revenues, expenses, workflows and virtually every other operational aspect...
    Mat Calabro
    Mat Calabro
    Product Marketing Manager, Coupa Software

    Mat Calabro specializes in Coupa's CLM and S2C solutions. He lives in the Greater Boston area with his wife and son.

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    What is Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)? | Coupa
  • The Hackett Group, CrossCountry Consulting, and Acquis Consulting Group are seasoned experts at helping businesses implement e-procurement and digital procure-to-pay (P2P)...
    Suhas Sreedhar
    Suhas Sreedhar
    Senior Content Marketing Manager, Coupa Software

    Suhas Sreedhar is a writer, journalist, and content marketer who loves telling stories about complex ideas to make them digestible. He also really enjoy storytelling through different media like articles, infographics, podcasts, videos, and interactive apps.

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    Lady with a Shopping Cart Trending Upwards
  • Coupa hit many milestones in 2018, not the least of which was hiring our first Chief Procurement Officer, Dina Ghobrial. Born...
    Coupa
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    Making Automation Sing – What Coupa CPO Dina Ghobrial Says is the Secret to Success as a Procurement & Transformation Leader
  • Procurement (buyer) is simply the opposite of sales (seller). They are on the opposite side of a transaction. The buyer typically...
    Daryl Hammett
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    How Procurement Professionals Can Support Sales Success
  • As organizations move to adopt leading technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual and augmented reality, the question arises as to...
    Sean Park
    Sean Park
    Group Practice Lead, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing, Acquis Consulting Group, an accredited Coupa implementation partner

    Sean Park's mission is to provide clients with strategy, organization design, process and implementation support.

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    A Light Bulb Inside a Cloud