Coupa Announces 2026 Trendsetter Award Winners Driving Innovation with AI-Driven Spend Management and Supply Chains Around the Globe

Celebrating 9 global organizations setting the standard for innovation, financial performance, workforce transformation and business impact using AI-driven intelligent spend management and supply chain solutions

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — April 29, 2026 — Coupa, the leading platform for autonomous spend management, today announced the winners of its 2026 Trendsetter Awards, recognizing 9 customers for advancing innovation, strengthening financial discipline, and delivering measurable outcomes through Coupa’s AI-native platform.

The annual Trendsetter Awards celebrates organizations that are using real‑time intelligence and data‑driven decision making to strengthen performance, achieve resilience, and tighten execution at scale. This year’s winners span industries and regions, highlighting how leading organizations are turning spend visibility into measurable business outcomes in increasingly complex operating environments.

“Our 2026 Trendsetters demonstrate what’s possible when organizations combine clear strategy with the ability to act on better data,” said John Frank, Chief Customer Officer at Coupa. “These customers aren’t just modernizing processes, they’re combining the power of $9.5 trillion of community-generated data and agentic AI to make smarter and more informed decisions, rewrite their operating and workforce models, and deliver tremendous business value and outcomes. We’re both proud and excited to be partnering on this journey with them.”

Meet this year’s Trendsetter Award Winners:

Coupa Trendsetter of the Year

• Kimberly-Clark: Deployed Coupa globally across 35,000+ employees and 90% of suppliers, managing $14.0B in PO spend, $8.5B in invoicing, and executing 17,000+ sourcing optimization events to date, while expanding direct spend capabilities with CSO and SCDP.

“Our focus has been on building a more connected, data-driven approach to managing our spend and supply chain globally,” said Jeff Markey, VP Digital Transformation at Kimberly-Clark. “With Coupa, we’ve been able to scale that vision, improving visibility, driving smarter sourcing decisions, and creating a more agile foundation for continued growth.”

AI Transformation Winner

• Deliveroo: Embedded AI across procurement to deliver around £56M in total savings, including £14M (40%) from AI-driven sourcing optimisation, increase touchless invoicing from zero to 72%, halve supplier onboarding time, and drive a step change in compliant buying.

Financial Excellence Winner

• Glencore: Established a single global Coupa environment spanning 80 business units across five continents and seven languages, enabling 45,000+ suppliers. The Glencore team has transacted $25B+ in spend since 2018 ($9B in the last 12 months) across 27 currencies, with leading business units achieving up to 96% on-contract purchases, 100% electronic invoicing, 98% first-time match, and 88% on-catalog purchasing.

Supply Chain AI Transformation Winner

• Tyson Foods: Used AI‑driven scenario modeling to improve supply chain decision‑making, streamline the logistics network, and drive meaningful reductions in overall logistics costs.
  

Regional Winners

• NA | Ping Identity:Leveraged AI-driven solutions including SpendGuard, InvoiceSmash, and Navi, enabling end-to-end Source to Pay automation that will support a 2x output from the Business Services function.
• EMEA | Rolls-Royce plc: Standardized procurement globally, managing about $4B in annual spend and achieving more than 80% on-contract coverage.
• APAC | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd: Implemented Coupa across 141 companies in 30 countries, using Coupa AI to analyze more than 100,000 transactions monthly and reduce indirect spend by 6.9%.
• LATAM | XP Inc: Transformed procurement into a strategic growth driver, managing 99% of addressable spend while the business scaled dozens of times over, without increasing non-headcount operating expenses.
  

Societal Impact Winner

• Neighborhood Healthcare: Enhanced financial visibility and working capital management, generating $500K in rebates and early payment discounts and reinvesting savings to expand patient services and community impact.

The 2026 Trendsetter Award winners will be celebrated at Coupa Inspire 2026 (May 11–14) in Las Vegas. Join us at Inspire to hear from many of these leaders – including Jeff Markey, VP Digital Transformation at Kimberly-Clark and Rob Turner, Chief Procurement Officer at Deliveroo – and other Coupa customers on how they’re unlocking Coupa’s network effect to transform business spend, sourcing, workforce and supply chain operations.

Additional Resources

• Hear more transformation stories from Coupa customers. 
• Learn how Coupa’s platform can help transform your business.
  

About Coupa
Coupa is the leading platform for autonomous spend management. Using its trusted, community-generated, $9.5 trillion dataset, Coupa brings evidence-based intelligence and autonomous AI agents to a network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers on a unified platform. Coupa seamlessly automates the purchasing and transaction process for buyers and suppliers alike, powering the #1 business trade network. With Coupa, you’ll make margins multiply™. Learn more at coupa.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X (Twitter).

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