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Coupa acquires AI-powered supplier discovery platform Scoutbee

Spend management vendor Coupa has acquired Scoutbee, an AI-powered supplier discovery network, adding another milestone on the roadmap towards an agentic commerce network.

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Enterprise hits and misses - H-1B Visa news hits - how should enterprises respond? Supply chains need to transform, and the AI data sovereignty era is here

This week - the H-1B Visa news hits enterprises (and tech vendors), but what should they do next? Is SaaS dead? Not if you examine the pros and cons of LLMs. Oracle gets TikTok, and lessons galore from Workday Rising. As always, your whiffs.

Levelpath uses AI to automate the 'ugh' work that dogs enterprise procurement

Levelpath is making headway with its mission to deliver an AI-first platform that automates much of the drudgery - the 'ugh' work - of enterprise procurement.

As Coupa advances its agentic AI roadmap, how is it keeping customers on the journey?

Spend management vendor Coupa is rolling out AI agents at pace towards its ultimate goal of fully automated B2B commerce. We speak to Salvatore Lombardo, its CPTO, about the road ahead.

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Coupa Inspire 2025 - Coupa acquires Cirtuo to bring AI smarts to buyer category management

An interview with Leagh Turner, CEO of Coupa, about the acquisition of category management specialist Cirtuo, and why she believes Coupa will be able to deliver its ambitious plans for autonomous spend management.

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Coupa Inspire 2025 - new agents pave the way to autonomous collaborative commerce

At today's Inspire conference, Coupa unveiled new agents, advances in supplier collaboration, and other steps towards its vision of building an autonomous collaborative commerce network.

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Will AI roboticize enterprise procurement?

Procurement needs AI, and AI needs procurement team support.

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Bianca Nobilo of IFS explores how AI is transforming supply chain management amid vulnerabilities exacerbated by geopolitical instability and disruptions.

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How to survive the looming AI avalanche of enterprise automation

AI is making it dramatically easier for people to automate the work they do. But is there a risk of getting buried in an avalanche of enterprise automation?

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Coupa's new leadership has a vision to let autonomous AI agents do the buying

We spoke to SAP veteran Salvatore Lombardo, who recently joined Coupa, about the vendor's ambitious vision to build an AI-enabled network for collaborative sourcing and transactions between buyers and sellers.

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SAP Spend Connect 2024 - how Molex is transforming their digital supply chain

There is no better event highlight than a customer making change happen at enterprise scale - one that can speak to tangible benefits, without sugar coating the hard parts. At SAP Spend Connect, Molex was one of those stories.

Tony Gainsford of Molex at SAP Spend Connect 2024

SAP Spend Connect 2024 - behind the news of SAP's ambitious, category-busting approach to spend and beyond

I can still remember a time when I considered SAP's "Business Network" mantra two thirds hot air. But over the years, the plot thickened. Here's my opinionated news take, with a focus on Promote, and the Spend Control Tower.

SAP's Etosha Thurman at SAP Spend Connect 2024

SuiteWorld 24 - NetSuite unveils new procurement and PSA products and multiple AI capabilities

SuiteWorld 24 opens with multiple AI announcements and new procurement and PSA products as NetSuite integrates more closely with its parent Oracle

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