Coupa, the leading platform for agentic spend management, announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Supplier Value Management (SVM), Q4 2026.
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“We built Coupa so intake, orchestration, and agents work in one process, grounded in our network data, and customers can start with the problem that matters most and add more when they’re ready.”
The report evaluated 10 providers across 36 criteria. Coupa received the highest scores possible in the roadmap, globalization, and adoption criteria, and the report concludes that Coupa “is best suited for global enterprises seeking scalable, standardized SVM with strong support for direct and indirect spend and network-driven intelligence.”
“Coupa delivers an extremely broad, mature SVM platform, earning superior scores in myriad areas, including supplier onboarding, intake and risk management, collaboration, guided procurement, orchestration, category and lifecycle management, and procure-to-pay (P2P) analytics. Its key differentiators are how it embeds AI throughout the platform and derives intelligence from its large supplier and spend network,” stated the report.
Coupa’s solutions have earned top scores from industry analyst firms, and Coupa is now making it easier and faster for customers to buy, deploy, and realize value. Existing customers can use Coupa Compose to add agentic capabilities across Procure-to-Pay and new customers can start with purpose-built agentic procurement solutions from Coupa designed for faster deployment and quicker time to value.
“Leaders in finance and procurement have to protect total margin and stay resilient at the same time, and that’s hard when a request passes through a pile of disconnected systems,” said Salvatore Lombardo, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Coupa. “We built Coupa so intake, orchestration, and agents work in one process, grounded in our network data, and customers can start with the problem that matters most and add more when they’re ready. That’s how you get to operational excellence: fewer gaps, more control, and results you can measure.”
Coupa brings intelligent insight and automation to every step of source-to-pay, with AI agents embedded in the process, so customers can:
- Protect total margin: Connect strategy, sourcing, contracts, procurement, and invoice-to-pay so negotiated savings and terms carry through to payment with Coupa Navi™ agents operating within customer-set guardrails and routing high-impact decisions to a person.
- Build resilience: Flag supplier risk early with Spend Pulse signals and supplier management agents, in the same flow as spend, supply chain collaboration, and supply chain optimization.
- Drive operational excellence: Capture requests in Coupa, Slack, or Teams through Intake and Orchestration, route them to the right approvers, and run consistent processes across direct and indirect spend.
- Agentically adapt their business: Build and manage their own agents in Agent Studio and connect them to the rest of the stack through MCP and A2A.
Customers are already putting agents to work on their most time-intensive processes. At Votorantim, the negotiation teams spent dozens of hours manually preparing negotiation playbooks, reviewing concession points, and analyzing historical supplier patterns. Now, the Votorantim Negotiation Agent works alongside Coupa workflows to autonomously analyze historical spend, contracts, and benchmark pricing — generating negotiation strategies, d******* ranges, and scripts. Negotiation prep time was cut by 75%, with up to 8% higher supplier savings.
“Today’s system can analyze historical negotiation data, identify supplier patterns, and proactively set targets and strategies — negotiating on our behalf. We can capture value at a much more granular level, which is critical in a highly competitive industry,” said Henrique Paes, CPO, Votorantim.
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