Procurement Magazine December 2025 Issue 48 | Page 59

COUPA fed with data that is relevant to what’ s going on in that environment.”
But when fed the right data, agentic AI has delivered remarkable results.“ It’ s spotting broken approval patterns, showing supplier performance data and patterns which you may otherwise never see,” he says.
Coupa’ s AI has become adept at identifying potential fraud – flagging duplicate invoices, suspicious purchase orders or attempts to skirt approval thresholds.“ That for me is one of the really exciting parts where it is really enabling massive savings over potentially duplicate payments or indeed purchase orders, where people are circumnavigating the rules,” Peter notes.

“ AI isn’ t magic. It doesn’ t magically create value, it’ s got to be fed with data that is relevant to what’ s going on in that environment”

Peter Truman,
Senior Director of Technical Architects, Coupa procurementmag. com 59