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Coupa Trendsetter Awards

Recognizing Industry Trendsetters

The Coupa Trendsetter Awards celebrate the customer pioneers redefining total spend management with the power of AI. Each year, we recognize Coupa customers who are transforming decision-making, unlocking measurable outcomes, and driving meaningful impact across their organizations and industries.

 

If you are a Coupa customer, you’re invited to nominate your team or a peer within your organization to showcase how they are accelerating innovation and helping set the standard for the future of spend, supply chain, and sustainability.
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Global Trendsetter of the Year

The Global Trendsetter of the Year recognizes an organization driving breakthrough business impact through bold, enterprise-wide adoption of Coupa. This award honors transformative leadership at scale, showcasing how Autonomous Spend Management powers smarter, faster, and more resilient decision-making across the enterprise.

Celebrating measurable results, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration, the Global Trendsetter of the Year sets the benchmark for operational excellence and sustainable value creation across our global community.

AI Transformation

AI Transformation

Honors a customer at the forefront of AI and automation, using Coupa to unlock new levels of operational speed, intelligent decisioning, and process innovation. This award celebrates early adopters who are redefining what's possible through Autonomous Spend Management.

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Financial Excellence

Recognizes a finance-led organization achieving measurable impact through Coupa and AI-driven insights. This award celebrates transformative financial stewardship in the age of intelligent spend.

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Supply Chain Transformation

Honors a customer transforming supply chain operations through the strategic use of AI and Coupa. This award recognizes organizations applying intelligent automation and predictive insights to modernize sourcing, improve decision-making, and unlock greater efficiency and visibility across their supply chain.

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Societal Impact Award

Celebrates a customer driving meaningful social, environmental, or community outcomes through Coupa, using data, visibility, and AI to advance ESG goals and create lasting impact beyond their bottom line.

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Supply Chain Resilience

Honors a customer leading the way in building resilient, agile supply chains with Coupa. This award celebrates organizations that strengthen continuity, mitigate risk, and adapt quickly to disruption by improving planning, supplier collaboration, and real-time visibility across their global ecosystem.

Regional Spotlights

One standout customer will be recognized in each region for driving exceptional impact and local relevance through Coupa. These Regional Trendsetter awards celebrate organizations that are transforming spend, supply chain, and finance operations in ways that matter most within their regional context.

Celebrating the 2026 Trendsetter award winners

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Trendsetter of the Year

Recognized for deploying Coupa globally across 35,000+ employees and 90% of suppliers, managing $14 billion in PO spend, $8.5 billion in invoicing, and executing 17,000+ sourcing optimization events to date, while expanding direct spend capabilities with CSO and SCDP.

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Financial Excellence

Established a single global Coupa environment spanning 80 business units across five continents and seven languages, enabling 45,000+ suppliers. The Glencore team has transacted more than $25 billion in spend since 2018 ($9 billion in the last 12 months) across 27 currencies, with leading business units achieving up to 96% on-contract purchases, 100% electronic invoicing, 98% first-time match, and 88% on-catalog purchasing.

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Supply Chain AI Transformation

Selected for transforming supply chain decisions with AI-driven scenario modeling, improving supply chain decision‑making, streamlining the logistics network, and driving meaningful reductions in overall logistics costs.

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AI Transformation

Recognized for embedding AI across procurement to deliver around £56 million in total savings (including £14 million (40%) from AI-driven sourcing optimization). Deliveroo increased touchless invoicing from zero to 72%, halved supplier onboarding time, and drove a step change in compliant buying.

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NOAM Winner

Pioneering AI-driven spend management with SpendGuard™, InvoiceSmash, and Coupa Navi™, achieving 100% adoption within week one, and reducing invoice approvals from 6 days to less than one.

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EMEA Winner

Recognized for standardizing procurement globally, managing about $4 billion in annual spend and achieving more than 80% on-contract coverage.

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APAC Winner

Recognized for deploying Coupa across 141 companies in 30 countries, using Coupa AI to analyze 100,000+ transactions monthly and reduce indirect spend by 6.9%.

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LATAM Winner

Transformed procurement into a strategic growth driver, managing 99% of addressable spend while the business scaled dozens of times over, without increasing non-headcount operating expenses.

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Societal Impact

Recognized for strengthening financial visibility and working capital management, generating $500,000 in rebates and early payment discounts and reinvesting savings to expand patient services and community impact.

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