Case Study: NEC Corporation achieves global savings and tighter spend control with Coupa Software

NEC Finds Global Savings with Coupa’s Procurement Solutions

NEC Corporation, a global IT and network technology leader operating across 20–25 EMEA countries, faced inefficient procurement driven by clunky, paper-backed SAP requisitions and poor reporting. Leadership needed a simple, cloud-based solution to gain visibility, tighten controls and manage spend across multiple divisions and geographies.

NEC chose Coupa’s true cloud procurement platform, quickly integrating it with SAP (contract signed late December; go-live in March) and rolling it out across Europe with e-sourcing and localized support for further expansion. The intuitive system achieved strong user adoption, provided dashboards and compliance tracking to expose and reduce maverick spend, sped approvals (mail approvals ~10–15%, ~20-hour end-to-end approval time) and delivered measurable centralized spend control and cost savings.

NEC Corporation

Gavin Johnston

Vice President Of Finance And Procurement