Case Study: Bowery Farming achieves rapid ROI and streamlined procure-to-pay with Coupa Software

Bowery Farms Grows its Operations Quickly with Coupa

Bowery Farming is a New York–headquartered vertical farming company that builds smart indoor farms near cities to deliver fresh, traceable produce year‑round. Facing rapid growth and the need to scale quickly without sacrificing quality, Bowery struggled with fragmented point solutions, manual invoicing, limited spend visibility and supply‑chain delays — all while processing roughly 1,200 invoices and adding 30 suppliers per month with a single AP person.

In May 2022 Bowery standardized on Coupa’s end‑to‑end procurement and finance platform, enabling catalog ordering, embedded controls and three‑way matching, and digital payments. The result: dramatic reductions in manual work, 97% of vendor payments processed through Coupa, a positive ROI in under a year (and no need to hire another AP processor), faster sourcing and freed capacity for more strategic work as Bowery continues its digital transformation.

Bowery Farming

David Hose

Director, Financial Systems