Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare Selects Coupa for its Supply Chain Collaboration Platform to Advance DX Vision ~ Driving Fit-to-Standard Direct Materials Procurement to Build a Sustainable Supply Chain ~

TOKYO, July 8, 09:00 AM (JST)  – Coupa K.K., the leading platform for autonomous spend management, today announced that Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter "Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare") has selected the Coupa platform to build a supply chain collaboration foundation aligned with its business strategy. 

Coupa's Supply Chain Collaboration solution(*) is a cloud-based system that centralizes and visualizes operations such as ordering, inventory, and forecasting between companies and suppliers to drive operational efficiency. By leveraging AI, the platform helps predict supply chain disruptions and mitigate procurement risks. 

Under its company-wide DX vision—"driving productivity and creating new value through data and digital technology"—Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare has positioned the supply chain as one of its key focus areas. To accelerate growth under limited resources, the company set out to resolve traditional challenges such as dependency on individual personnel, system fragmentation, and compliance risks caused by scattered data. Consequently, they decided to transition into a robust and agile organization while modernizing into a data-driven procurement infrastructure. 

Reasons for Selecting Coupa 

• High Alignment with the Target Vision (Ecosystem Building & Risk Minimization): Coupa was recognized as the ideal solution that best matches the company’s vision for a supply chain model, which emphasizes co-creation with external partners and minimizing procurement risks.
• Rapid Implementation of Standard Processes through "Fit-to-Standard": Coupa's exceptional packaged features allow the company to eliminate excessive customization and apply global standard processes directly to its direct materials procurement.
• Flexibility and Scalability to Adapt to Future Business Changes: Coupa’s unified architecture offers superior agility to flexibly adapt and scale alongside future shifts in the market environment and further business growth. 

Future Outlook 

• Phased Expansion through a Small Start: Guided by the policy of "Small start, Quick win," the company will initially narrow the scope of operation to minimize the burden on frontline staff while gradually driving efficiency and compliance.
• Co-creation with Suppliers and Risk Mitigation through Data Sharing: By sharing demand forecasts and actual data in real time on a single platform, the company and its suppliers can collaboratively adjust plans in response to sudden demand fluctuations, ensuring a reliable and stable supply chain.
• Realizing S&OP and Sustainability Initiatives: The company aims to establish S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) aligned with its business strategy based on suppliers' supply plans, while building a sustainable procurement structure that considers environmental and social impacts. 

* Click here for details on Coupa's Supply Chain Collaboration solution.   

About Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare  

Leveraging its strengths as a leading company in the OTC (over-the-counter) medicine field, Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare has expanded its business areas into functional skincare, oral care, and food products, continuing to grow as a total healthcare company that supports the healthy lives of consumers. Guided by our corporate slogan, "Fit for You: A life partner for each individual’s healthy life," which embodies our philosophy, we will continue to contribute to a society where everyone can confidently engage in self-care and self-medication. 

About Coupa 

Coupa is the leading platform for autonomous spend management. Celebrating its 20 year anniversary, Coupa uses its trusted, community-generated, $10 trillion+ dataset to bring evidence-based intelligence and autonomous AI agents to a network of 11M+ buyers and suppliers on a unified platform. Coupa provides a fully integrated stack for enterprise spend management, powering the #1 agentic trade network for buyers and suppliers. With Coupa, you’ll make margins multiply™. Learn more at coupa.co.jp and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and X (Twitter).