Case Study: AstraZeneca achieves faster, unified procurement and cuts invoice approvals from 60 to 4.5 days with Coupa Software

AstraZeneca Gets Purchasing Down to a Science with Coupa

Coupa is a business spend management (BSM) leader helping organizations modernize procurement, payments, treasury and supplier risk across industries. Facing fragmented legacy systems, manual processes and growing pressure to do more with less, customers needed a single, scalable platform to improve compliance, visibility and speed while supporting sustainability and diversity goals.

Coupa’s cloud BSM suite standardizes source-to-pay, supplier risk, treasury and sourcing optimization—bringing catalogs, invoicing automation, virtual cards and analytics into one platform. Customers report faster cycle times (for example invoice approvals cut from 60 to 4.5 days), dramatic reductions in manual work and risk (BMO risk assessments down ~75%), higher electronic invoicing and PO adoption (many customers >90% e-invoicing/POs), measurable savings and improved cash flow (VF unlocked $50M), and rapid ROI and scalability across global operations.

AstraZeneca

Robert Christmas

Financial Director