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Control & Optimize Your Services Spend

From simple, one-off tasks to complex multiyear projects and contingent labor, Coupa’s refreshed Services Procurement tools manage every type of service on a single, seamless platform built for intelligence and compliance, powering the entire lifecycle of Services Procurement all within the Coupa platform.

Tap into advanced capabilities to source, contract, receive, and compliantly invoice all types of services — including T&M, milestones, expenses, and deliverables — all while tracking and managing workers. Robust onboarding and offboarding flows bring compliance, control, and visibility to your extended workforce management.

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One platform for all services spend

The only true platform solution

Optimize services spend

Move beyond fragmented systems with a solution designed to handle every type of external service:

  • Simple Services: Low complexity tasks like catering, printing, or equipment repair
  • Outsourced Services: Recurring managed services such as call centers, security, and facilities management
  • Statement of Work (SOW): Project-based engagements with defined milestones and deliverables
  • Staff Augmentation: Contingent labor and temporary staffing to supplement your workforce

Eliminate data silos and gain comprehensive visibility by managing goods, services, and contingent workforce in one place.

Total spend management

Streamlined lifecycle from request to payment

Step into the next generation of managing your services, leveraging the full Coupa platform throughout the end-to-end lifecycle. This means that your sourcing, contract, order, and invoice services have the same familiar UI, UX, and configuration. This allows end users the same familiar experience while allowing administrators to jump right in and maintain data and workflows.

This is the key differentiator for Coupa, as no other solution on the market has a true total spend management platform.

Manage service contracts

Consistent rates and greater visibility

The robust Coupa CLM module provides the backbone to authoring and executing your service contract terms.

Operationalize your agreed pricing by maintaining prenegotiated rate cards. Whether they are hourly T&M rates or SOW tasks and milestones, rates can be configured, maintained and applied to Services Orders, ensuring continuity and compliance from request to invoice.

Manage your non employee workforce

Easily define, onboard, and track worker assignments

Job Role templates capture taxonomy, descriptions, levels and skills required for workers. Suppliers self manage their repository of workers and assign them to one or multiple projects, triggering a robust, conditional onboarding compliance and provisioning process, including APIs to automate downstream systems and access.

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Gain control of overhead

Capture work confirmation exactly how it happens — from milestone-based deliverables to daily time entries enforcing the contracted rate cards authorized for your service orders.

Use Service Sheets to track lump-sum hours, deliverables, or expenses, and Timesheets to track individual worker hours per day. AI Summaries are generated for approvers to efficiently review budget impact and transactions and properly allocate cost accounting.

Compliant Invoicing

Prevent rogue spend and enforce contracted rates with the only market solution offering truly compliant invoicing

The Coupa Invoicing solution is used to apply your localized compliant invoicing presentations, processes and approvals for both goods and services.

Rate cards apply to Service Orders and are used on Service Sheets and Timesheets. Upon approval, suppliers will flip the approved sheets into invoices. This ensures that suppliers are only able to invoice approved services with approved rates.

AI powered Automation

Leverage approval workflows

Accelerate service requisition creation with the AI Navi Agents. The service agent analyzes contracts documents and agreements to extract key details — such as roles, rates, and dates — and automatically creates requisitions, reducing manual effort and errors.

Reporting analytics

Custom Reports are so easy, anyone can do it

Actionable grids throughout the entire lifecycle enables end users to view details, take actions and export reports all from the same location. Users can use drag-and-drop capabilities to customize their reporting views with field selections and order, filters, sorting rules and more. Users are also able to schedule reports for ongoing reporting needs.

Coupa also offers a robust Analytics module which offers even more customization with dashboards and reports built across multiple data sources.

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A perfect match: Services Procurement + supplier management

Supplier risk can change rapidly based on many factors. Avoid service disruption by channeling spend to vetted suppliers and continuously monitoring risk. Understand performance and risk, as well as supplier diversity and green status, to protect your company and maximize the impact of ESG initiatives.

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Created to connect: Services Procurement + procurement

Give users one place to request what they need and deliver visibility into and control over all spend. With guided buying, catalogs, and forms, managers leverage contingent workforce and project-based services to optimize operational efficiency and eliminate rogue spend.

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A perfect match: Services Procurement + contracts

Ensure compliance and seamlessly enforce contract terms and pricing with integrated worker data that automates downstream processes for onboarding and offboarding.
Easily apply proper cost accounting while maintaining prenegotiated roles and rates for accurate, compliant billing that only allows billing for approved services.

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Better together: Services Procurement + invoicing + procurement + payments

Eliminate manual invoicing and payments work and go paperless with automated invoice capture and touchless processing. Open up early payment discount opportunities, ensure compliance with VAT regulations, and improve relationships by providing suppliers with full visibility into invoice and payment statuses.

Real intelligence uses domain-specific data

AI trained on real business spend data comes to conclusions you can trust, with context, accuracy, and built-in policy compliance.

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Service Procurement FAQs

Can I manage both project-based work and contingent labor in one platform?

Yes. Coupa Services Procurement is designed as a unified platform to manage all types of services spend. This includes Simple Services (like catering), Outsourced Services (like facility management), Statement of Work (SOW) projects with defined deliverables, and Staff Augmentation (contingent labor).

How does the Navi AI Request Agent assist with services procurement?

The Navi AI Request Agent automates the creation of service requisitions by analyzing legal contracts. It extracts key details such as start and end dates, transaction types, prices, and descriptions to propose a requisition structure. This reduces manual effort and accelerates the process of turning a contract into an active order.

Do suppliers or workers need a license to use the system?

No. Suppliers and workers access Coupa through the Coupa Supplier Portal (CSP), which does not require a license. Suppliers can manage workers, assignments, and service sheets, while workers can view their own assignments and submit service sheets directly through the portal.

How does the system handle compliance for non-employees?

Coupa enables you to manage compliance at both the supplier and worker level. You can capture and validate worker information, such as certifications and onboarding documents, directly within the platform. The platform can also enforce "Service Line Match" rules (like three-way direct match) to ensure that invoices can only be created from approved service sheets, preventing rogue spend and ensuring billing accuracy.

What is the difference between a "Service Sheet" and a "Timesheet" in Coupa?

While often used interchangeably, Coupa distinguishes between the two. Service Sheets (or Service Entry Sheets) are used to receive services at the supplier level, capturing lump-sum hours, milestone-based deliverables, quantity-based tasks, and expenses. Timesheets, on the other hand, specifically track individual worker hours on a daily basis (e.g., Monday eight hours, Tuesday six hours).

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