It’s widely believed that digital transformation will drastically change procurement over the next few years. It’s an overwhelming prospect, but it’s...
Amanda Prochaska
Amanda Prochaska
Vice President of Sourcing Program Management, MGM Resorts, a Coupa customer
Amanda is responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining new, best-in-class programs and technologies to reduce costs or increase value for the company.
Digitalization will change procurement as we know it, or so we are told. That sounds overwhelming and a little bit scary...
Amanda Prochaska
Amanda Prochaska
Vice President of Sourcing Program Management, MGM Resorts, a Coupa customer
Amanda is responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining new, best-in-class programs and technologies to reduce costs or increase value for the company.
At a recent conference I attended, The Hackett Group presented a study saying that 95 percent of respondents believe digitalization will...
Amanda Prochaska
Amanda Prochaska
Vice President of Sourcing Program Management, MGM Resorts, a Coupa customer
Amanda is responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining new, best-in-class programs and technologies to reduce costs or increase value for the company.
In a perfect Business Spend Management scenario, employees submit a requisition and get an approved purchase order for everything they spend...
Ben Mlynash
Ben Mlynash
Senior Director Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, Coupa Software
Ben leads a team that drives functional process design, architecture, and configuration on customer implementations. Ben has led or supported over 300 implementations. When he's not helping people implement Coupa, Ben enjoys raising his two young daughters, traveling, and following sports.
eProcurement platforms drive a process and are the foundation for digital procurement, but a technology platform alone does not a digital...
Tom Fahey
Tom Fahey
Business and Technology Innovation Principal Director, Accenture
Tom is responsible for developing and driving the technology enablement vision for the Procurement BPS business. He leads a global team responsible for strategy development, innovation, technology delivery, and IT service management.
Vincent Tosca is a product executive and technology enthusiast with entrepreneurial experience at startups and SaaS companies. His interests include the cloud, DevOps, IoT, and fintech. His specialties include product management & strategy, product marketing, agile, SaaS, cloud, DevOps, and analytics.
Digital transformation is a phrase that’s been bandied a about a lot lately, but what does it mean in the context...
Chris Banschbach
Chris Banschbach
Managing Director, Accenture
Chris is Chief Product Officer and head of Strategy for Accenture Interactive's managed service business. He has responsibility for business strategy and architecture, leading inorganic growth (V&A), and setting the vision for the services & technology roadmap.
Ten years ago, the VAT gap—the difference between the value added tax governments should collect based on business transactions going on...
Markus Hornburg
Markus Hornburg
VP, Global Product Compliance, Coupa
Markus Hornburg has more than 20 years' experience in Business Process Design, Change Management, Product Management and Business Consulting. Prior to Coupa, he held positions in compliance at Tungsten Corporation and SAP.
You’re hired! After the jubilation of accepting a job wears off and you’re successfully on-boarded to your new company, you learn...
Greg Tennyson
Greg Tennyson
Chief Procurement Officer, VSP Global
VSP Global is the largest provider of vision insurance in the United States. Tennyson is also an Advisory Board member at Palambridge. Prior to his role at VSP, Greg was the Chief Procurement Officer at Salesforce and Oracle. Greg is also the founding member of the Bay Area Procurement Council.
If you work in procurement, you’ve likely heard of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) – a name that quite accurately reflects how...
Don Darby
Don Darby
General Manager, Coupa Advantage
Don Darby oversees the program that provides Coupa customers with pre-negotiated savings from trusted suppliers. He has also held Chief Operating Officer positions at high growth technology companies and spent eight years in various roles at Ariba.
