The Total Economic Impact™ Of Coupa For Source-To-Pay, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Coupa, 2024

What if you could easily show your leadership team how a unified, AI-driven source-to-pay platform and strategy could drive millions in savings, growth, and efficiencies in less than a year? Now you have the data to do that. Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ Of Coupa for Source-to-Pay study shows how our Total Spend Management platform created a margin multiplier effect across a composite organization representative of interviewed customers. And the companion interactive ROI Calculator from Forrester helps you estimate the quantified benefits specific to your business.

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What impact would a 10-month payback period have on your organization?

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In today’s macroenvironment, every technology investment is under scrutiny. Finance and procurement leaders also need to demonstrate to stakeholders that the next transformation project will deliver fast time-to-value.

Forrester’s interactive ROI Calculator helps you estimate the financial impact Coupa could have on your business. It provides the best results for companies with revenues of more than $300 million.*

The ROI Calculator shows you:

  • A financial analysis and cash flow analysis (both estimates are risk adjusted)
  • How Coupa created a margin multiplier effect for growth and efficiency
  • The total costs for an investment in Coupa’s AI Total Spend Management platform, including fees, planning and deployment costs, and training and management costs

*Coupa offers additional resources that can help smaller organizations calculate their ROI. Check out our 2024 Total Spend Management Benchmark Report for Small and Midsize Businesses.

What company data should I confirm before using the Forrester ROI Calculator?

  • Annual revenue
  • Percent of annual revenue on: COGs or cost of services; annual logistics spend; SG&A spend
  • Number: technology solutions decommissioned in Year 2

How can I apply the data from the Forrester ROI Calculator?

  • Justify the tangible value of IT initiatives to both senior management and other key business stakeholders

Coupa platform delivered 276% ROI

The benefits of uniting sourcing, contract management, workforce management, supplier risk and performance analysis, procurement management, electronic invoicing, digital payments, and spend analysis on a single platform add up. See quantifiable results in this commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.

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About the Total Economic Impact™ Of Coupa For Source-To-Pay study

Forrester conducted a Total Economic Impact™ study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) of deploying the Coupa platform for source-to-pay.

Key facts:

  • Forrester interviewed four representatives of organizations with experience using Coupa, aggregated those experiences, and combined the results into a single composite organization that is a global manufacturing organization with 60,000 employees and revenue of $80 billion per year.
  • The objective of the study’s framework is to identify the cost, benefit, flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision.
  • Although Coupa provides solutions for businesses of all sizes, the ROI in this study is modeled for an organization the size of the composite.

Highlights from the Total Economic Impact™ Of Coupa For Source-To-Pay study

More than 3,000 customers around the world trust Coupa’s AI Total Spend Management platform informed by powerful community-generated AI to create a margin multiplier effect across their business.

For the composite organization in the the Total Economic Impact™ Of Coupa For Source-To-Pay study, these margin multipliers include:

Growth multipliers: Lock in higher margins to free up funds to fuel growth

Cost of goods sold (COGS)-related margin improvement of 1.4%*

Logistics-related margin improvement of 2%*

Selling, general, and administrative (SG&A)-related margin improvement of 0.7%*

Asset redeployment-related margin improvement of 10%*

Technology-related margin improvement of $560,000 annually*

Efficiency multipliers: Achieve reduced transactions and cost management

Invoicing efficiencies of 50%*

Sourcing and spend reporting efficiencies of 100%*

Productivity multipliers: Elevate employee performance

Benchmarks

Resiliency multipliers: Bolster resiliency during volatile conditions

Supplier relationships (capabilities to shift from tactical to strategic relationships)

Risk mitigation (capabilities to manage risk related to potential supply chain failure)

Sustainability multipliers: Identify diverse suppliers and monitor spend

Supplier diversity (capabilities to analyze and understand the supplier base)

*Three-year, risk-adjusted present value quantified benefits for the composite organization

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