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Coupa Value Services

No matter where you are on your Total Spend Management journey, Coupa's Value Services team is with you every step of the way—from day one to adoption and beyond.

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Implementation

With a proven track record of success, Coupa and our trusted partner ecosystem utilize an agile implementation methodology to speed your time to value. This approach for configuration, integration, and roll-out ensures that successful outcomes are delivered from day one.

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A proven methodology

Mobilize

We'll work with your project team to establish project governance, review success goals and metrics, and ensure that everyone gets plugged into the training and documentation they need to be successful.

Model

Next, we'll map configuration and integration plans along with business processes to support your required business outcomes. Following architecture and design reviews, your test system will be deployed.

Validate

Using your test system, we'll plan and execute testing phases to ensure the configuration meets your needs. This is also when you'll formalize plans for end-user training and plan any cutover activities from legacy systems.

Deploy

With acceptance testing complete, your production system will be deployed and hypercare will begin. At this stage, your end users and suppliers will be actively using the platform and you'll begin seeing measurable business value.

Build value

Adoption Management

Tap into proven strategies to accelerate user adoption, expand feature usage, and benefit from the latest platform innovations. Coupa Adoption Management is the key to driving user engagement and increasing your capacity for greater savings, speed, and visibility.

Proven strategies

  • Solution optimization
  • Compliance & efficiency
  • Process optimization
  • Release management
    • Assessing your configuration and platform usage, your Coupa Adoption Manager tailors a plan to your business goals, defining milestones and KPIs to build value, including:

      • Reviewing your entire configuration to identify gaps against business best practices.
      • Analyzing performance opportunities against 130+ transactional KPIs.
      • Understanding feature entitlements and identifying areas to increase utilization.
    • Analyzing your configuration, purchasing processes, and end-user engagement, your Coupa Adoption Manager spots opportunities to drive purchases through preferred channels at negotiated prices, including:

      • Analyzing usage patterns to spot opportunities that increase adoption.
      • Reviewing chart of accounts (COA) and accounting to optimize requirements.
      • Highlighting unused functionality that might add value.
    • With process expertise shaped from global engagements, your Coupa Adoption Manager will share best practices and recommend initiatives to engage users and build value, including:

      • Reviewing business processes against best practices and prescribing improvements.
      • Identifying areas that cause unnecessary workload or extended approval times.
      • Recommending adjustments or enhancements to drive efficiencies.
    • To help you leverage the latest feature enhancements and innovations, your Coupa Adoption Manager highlights capabilities to support your spend management objectives, including:

      • Providing advice and guidance across three annual major releases.
      • Prioritizing adoption of new features and capabilities for greatest business impact.
      • Supporting your user acceptance testing (UAT) and move to production activities (MTP).
    Accelerate results

    Managed Services

    Whether you're facing a skills gap, turnover, or lean operations, Coupa's Managed Services team can do the work for you. With a global team of domain experts, Coupa delivers the resources and support you need so you can focus on more strategic priorities.

    Optimize programs

    • Content Management
    • Supplier Enablement
    • Risk & Performance Management
    • Diversity Services
      • Streamline content strategy for more efficient processes

        Step up to an efficient search and buying process with skilled specialists to optimize your content strategy and work directly with suppliers on catalog setup and content updates.

        • Hosted catalogs to help manage the creation, updates, and maintenance of your hosted catalogs with your suppliers.
        • Punch Out & Open Buy support involves Coupa Content Management experts working directly with suppliers on the initial catalog setup. Our specialists guide suppliers through catalog structure requirements and content validation, and advise on self-service processes for ongoing content control.
        • Forms management helps to control services spend by ensuring forms can be easily found, readily navigated, and produce proper requisition lines.
      • Custom supplier strategy, enablement, and adoption

        Use multilingual resources to drive greater supplier adoption

        • Strategy & planning creation of a customized supplier enablement strategy focused on the right channel to enable your suppliers in order to reach your adoption goals.
        • Execution & management taps into proven processes, tools, and templates to enable suppliers across all of Coupa's invoicing options
        • Reporting & optimization includes tracking of your supplier enablement activities and your supplier's adoption to their electronic invoicing method.
      • Minimize risk and compliance issues

        Work with specialized resources to manage your Risk Assess application for multiple domains, as well as complex supplier and third-party relationships.

        • Risk program management defines applicable risk domains with workflows, reporting, and consulting on multi-tier risk models.
        • Administration & support includes a program manager to handle tasks, service requests, or escalations.
      • Supercharge your supplier diversity program

        With Coupa handling the tactical initiatives, you can focus on elevating the right aspects of your diversity program.

        • Supplier Diversity Enrichment Scrub — Coupa continuously analyzes your supplier base and reports their diversity status.
        • Tier 1 Supplier Diversity Outreach — Our team of experts will reach out to your suppliers to ensure current, active certificates are loaded into Coupa.
        • Tier 2 Supplier Diversity Outreach — Coupa will engage with your suppliers to report on the contribution of your supplier's diverse spend.
      Boost success

      Value Management

      Ensure success with the support of a strategic partner, trusted advisor, and results-focused advocate who helps you every step of the way to achieve your business objectives.

      Ensuring your success

      • Strategic partner

        Gain expert insight on your roadmap.

        With insights from a strategic partner, you can develop a value roadmap based on success metrics aligned to your business objectives.

      • Trusted advisor

        Optimize your platform and processes.

        Tap into ongoing, hosted value reviews to see results, share best practices, and collaborate to reach your business goals.

      • Results-focused advocate

        Create ongoing innovation to build value.

        Drive innovation for your organization by partnering with an advocate who is focused on your success, not sales.