Coupa Software [NASDAQ: COUP]: Digitalizing Contract Management

Rob Bernshteyn, the CEO of Coupa Software believes that managing contracts, keeping contract costs, and executing contracting contracts via mail have been some of the major challenges in every contract lifecycle. However, organizations are now realizing that real-time compliance and enforcement is critical for the reduction in contract cost and increase in efficiency. And this is where Coupa Software [NASDAQ: COUP] emerges into the picture with its contract management solution—Coupa Contracts that fully integrates the procure-to-pay (P2P) process, allowing organizations to realize pre-negotiated price and terms. The solution automatically tracks organizations spend and savings, and alerts organizations with the critical commitment timelines.

Coupa’s online contract management module provides complete contract automation from authoring, collaborating, and signing contract documents to operationalizing them with spend tracking and renewal alerts. With Coupa’s solutions, all of the enterprise paper contracts are digitized and enforced in real-time. To manage and optimize the inventory levels, real-time tracking and visibility is also incorporated into Coupa Contracts to understand spend against contracts and POs as well as total savings over the lifetime of a contract. From contract creation, to tracking and compliance, organizations can have an accurate, real-time picture of their contracting risks and opportunities.

Another interesting offering of the firm is the Contracts Repository platform that allows all purchasing contracts to be stored in a single repository for creating custom views to users, enabling users them to find out a specific contract for better decision making. Coupa acts as a Dropbox for all the contracts, through which users can securely access the information, what they are suppose to see. In addition, the firm also provides an organic suite of true cloud spend management applications, including invoicing, procurement, expense management, sourcing and inventory, allowing customers to realize a return on investment that can start within a few months and grow continually.