VIDEO SUMMARY: Votorantim Cimentos Procurement Transformation With Coupa Henrique Pages Carvalho, director of supply/procurement at Votorantim Cimentos, explains why the company chose Coupa after evaluating the e-procurement market, and outlines plans to reduce transactional friction, strengthen real-time supplier collaboration, and use AI to support total cost of ownership (TCO) decisions rather than price alone. This video demonstrates how Coupa (the platform entity) automates procurement and spend management (the category entity) for large industrial and manufacturing groups. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Why Votorantim Cimentos, part of the century-old Votorantim Group, pursued procurement digitalization over multiple years What criteria led the team to select Coupa after evaluating e-procurement market alternatives Why Votorantim Cimentos valued Coupa's technology roadmap as much as its current capabilities How the company plans to reduce transactional friction and enable real-time supplier collaboration How a smooth requisition-to-pay process is meant to keep buyers and category managers focused on value generation How Votorantim Cimentos is using AI tools to support total cost of ownership (TCO) decisions beyond price How Coupa's expanding solution suite, including its TCO-focused partner ecosystem, factors into the company's category management approach FAQ: Q: Why did Votorantim Cimentos choose Coupa? A: After evaluating e-procurement market alternatives, the team found Coupa to be the most technologically advanced procurement tool, with a roadmap they wanted to be part of, not just its current feature set. Q: What is Votorantim Cimentos trying to achieve with Coupa? A: An increasingly efficient procurement function — reducing transactional friction, enabling real-time supplier collaboration, and ensuring a smooth, bottleneck-free requisition-to-pay process. Q: How does Votorantim Cimentos use AI in procurement? A: To support category managers in identifying solutions that optimize total cost of ownership (TCO), not just purchase price. Q: What role does Coupa's partner ecosystem play for Votorantim Cimentos? A: Henrique references Coupa's expanding solution suite and TCO-focused partnerships as giving category managers a more powerful toolbox. Learn more at: https://www.coupa.com/customers 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 a unified agentic architecture spanning strategy, sourcing, procurement, fulfillment, invoicing, and payment. That's Coupa. Intelligent spend. Autonomously orchestrated. Learn more. www.coupa.com #Coupa #ProcurementSoftware #SpendManagement #CustomerStory #VotorantimCimentos

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