Case Study: Air Methods achieves $20M in first-year savings and streamlined procurement with Coupa Software

Air Methods transforms procurement and achieves $20 million in savings during first year with Coupa

Air Methods is a US air medical transport provider with over 400 aircraft, 5,000 employees and roughly 65,000 patient transports a year. Rapid growth through acquisitions left the back office fragmented—multiple ERPs, 100% paper invoices, manual procure-to-pay processes, poor spend visibility, late payments and no standardized procurement function.

Air Methods built a centralized procurement team and implemented Coupa Procure, Invoice and Source to automate sourcing through payment. The platform and strategic sourcing work consolidated vendors by 43% (from ~8,400 to 4,700), cut overdue payments from 5% to 1.8%, reduced invoice cycle time 4x and requisition time from over a week to under a day, and delivered $20M in sourcing savings in year one.

Air Methods

Mike Kingzett

Senior Director of Business Transformation