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Coupa acquires Scoutbee

How this affects buyers, suppliers and the market

On Monday, Coupa announced its acquisition of Scoutbee, an AI-powered supplier intelligence platform. Bertrand Maltaverne, Spend Matters Lead Analyst for Upstream Procurement, looks at what Scoutbee is, what the acquisition means for Coupa and how this may impact its customers.

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Aligning Finance and Procurement

The Spend Matters new in-depth guide helps Procurement align its processes with Finance.

Deliver reliable budgeting and forecasting

When finance and procurement are misaligned, budgets collapse under execution pressures, forecasts lose credibility and reforecasts become the norm. This week, Xavier Olivera, Lead Analyst for Downstream Procurement, shows how Procurement and Finance can fall out of alignment on this matter and how they can get back on track.

Vendor analysis

Deducta is an early contender in the new field of agentic AI. It uses agents to cleanse and classify data from any industry quickly and rapidly.

SolutionMap Fall 2025

On September 23, Spend Matters released its Fall 2025 SolutionMap and TechMatch procurement technology rankings. Known as the most data-centric functionality assessment of procurement technologies in the industry, SolutionMap Insider puts procurement technology vendors through rigorous functionality and capability assessments via 500+ RFI requirements across 16 source-to-pay categories, with mandatory demos and impartial, anonymized customer ratings.

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Upcoming Webinars

Future-proof your supply chain. Don’t miss 'Procure to Endure' — LIVE with Darshan Deshmukh and Bertrand Maltaverne on Tuesday, October 14 at 11AM ET.

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