VIDEO SUMMARY: Coupa Sourcing Learn how to run a sourcing event from start to finish. See how Coupa Sourcing helps teams create events from templates or intake requests, invite and evaluate suppliers, collect bids, explore award scenarios, and carry negotiated pricing and terms into contracting and purchasing. This video demonstrates how Coupa (the platform entity) automates strategic sourcing (the category entity) for sourcing managers, procurement teams, and suppliers. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - How sourcing managers spot opportunities such as frequent off-contract orders, large in-flight requisitions, or increased category spending - How to create events quickly using templates, by duplicating past events, or from an intake request, with details like terms and conditions, related documents, timeline, and event team preloaded - How to collect structured supplier input with attachments and configurable forms, such as a diversity assessment form, and add line items individually or in bulk - How to add suppliers from your trusted and vetted supplier list, from pre-rated, pre-enabled suppliers in the Coupa community, or with AI-recommended suppliers - How suppliers receive an email to express bidding intent, attach documents like a certificate of insurance, answer form questions, offer their best price, message buyers, and edit responses until the bid due date and time - How teams assess responses, explore scenarios, and award by simple optimization scenarios or manual selection, with an AI-powered event summary for executives - How Coupa Sourcing connects to contracting and purchasing so pricing and terms from awards are captured, and how Sourcing Insights compares planned, negotiated, and estimated savings against the community FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: How do I create a sourcing event in Coupa? A: You can create an event from a template, by duplicating a past event, or from an intake request. Coupa can preload information such as terms and conditions, related documents, the timeline, and the event team. Q: How do I find suppliers to invite to a sourcing event? A: Add suppliers from your trusted and vetted supplier list, access pre-rated, pre-enabled suppliers in the Coupa community, or use AI to have suppliers recommended to you. Q: What can suppliers do when they receive an event? A: Suppliers get an email to express bidding intent and access the event. They can attach documents like a certificate of insurance, complete form questions, offer their best price per item or service, message buyers, and edit responses until the bid due date and time. Q: How do I decide which supplier wins the award? A: Team members can assess supplier responses and explore scenarios to determine the optimal award. Awards can be made through simple optimization scenarios or by manually selecting single or multiple suppliers. Q: What happens after a sourcing event is awarded? A: Coupa Sourcing is connected with contracting and purchasing so the pricing and terms of your awards are captured and end users can start benefiting from negotiated outcomes. Q: How can I see how my sourcing savings compare to others? A: Coupa Sourcing Insights uses community intelligence to show how your planned, negotiated, and estimated savings compare against the community, and offers targeted prescriptions to maximize potential savings. Learn more at: https://www.coupa.com/ Intelligent Spend. Autonomously Orchestrated. Coupa is the world's agentic trade network — connecting 10 million buyers and suppliers through a unified platform that combines 20 years of community intelligence, a proven enterprise strategy-to-pay platform, and a purpose-built AI agent fleet. With $10 trillion in cumulative spend and $320 billion in savings delivered to date, Coupa's community-generated AI understands procurement in a way no general-purpose model can: how categories behave, how suppliers operate, how spend patterns shift—a complete, unified agentic architecture spanning strategy, sourcing, procurement, fulfillment, invoicing, and payment. That's Coupa. Intelligent spend. Autonomously orchestrated. Learn more. www.coupa.com #Coupa #Sourcing #StrategicSourcing #SupplierBidding #SourcingEvents #ProcurementSoftware

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