ISS Group Commits to Global Service Excellence with Coupa

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Coupa Software COUP, the leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced that ISS Group, a leading global facility services provider, selected Coupa to transform its business by streamlining its procure-to-pay (P2P) process with a user-friendly solution that sets the foundation to achieve savings and increase efficiency.

To support its vision to become the world's greatest service organization, ISS sought a solution that would enable it to deliver consistent service (including from its supply chain) across the globe, while producing measurable business results.

ISS Group's diversified system landscape presented challenges for unifying its procurement process worldwide. ISS looked to form one global, best practice P2P process across its entire enterprise. Now with the Coupa BSM solution, ISS Group will be able to drive standard policies across BSM functions, offer customers better transparency of its supply chain, improve efficiency and delivery capabilities for operations teams by eliminating complexity when ordering goods and services, reduce supply chain risk through better control of suppliers and visibility into modes of operation, and enable cost leadership through compliance to agreed contracts. 

While many conventional P2P systems cover core procurement functionality, Coupa uniquely helped ISS Group realize three key benefits:

• Strong executive commitment within Coupa to help ensure a successful implementation;
• Proven track record of successful implementations across complex global companies; and
• Significant ease of use with the P2P solution, to help drive user and supplier adoption.

"Coupa's talented team of experts made us feel confident when it came to our integration approach, and they forged a trusted relationship with us very early on," said Henk Grol, senior project manager at ISS Group. "Having had success with Coupa in the Netherlands, we sought to grow that success globally. At our core, ISS is a people-first provider. As such, we focused on finding a globally compatible, user-friendly solution that would help streamline our BSM processes so that we could continue to deliver excellent services for our customers. Coupa was agile and provided a solution that fit all our needs and will be an integral partner in our implementation setup."   

During the selection process, Coupa connected ISS Group with existing customers to evidence the value of its solutions, two of which included ISS UK and ISS Netherlands, which were already seeing success using Coupa. Now, with the potential to use Coupa as part of ISS integrated services to ISS customers, ISS Group is working closely with Coupa to implement P2P in Germany, followed by a global roll out in 2019, with Norway as the pilot country. Once deployed, ISS Group looks to quantify success by measuring:

• Captured spend (as percent of total spend)
• Percent of pre-approved spend
• Percent of spend processed through structured content
• Percent of spend on contract
• Invoice approval cycle times
• Percent of invoices received electronically
• Percent of incoming invoices without errors

"ISS Group was looking for a unified, streamlined process that would enable it to deliver to its customers," said Mark Riggs, chief customer officer at Coupa. "We are delighted to have the opportunity to equip ISS with a best practice BSM solution that is compatible across its global enterprise and look forward to onboarding ISS Global."

To learn more about how Coupa helps companies around the world gain more visibility and control into all their business spend, and ultimately spend smarter, visit https://www.coupa.com/. 

About Coupa Software
Coupa Software is the cloud platform for business spend. It delivers "Value as a Service" by helping its customers optimize their spend management, achieve significant cost savings and drive profitability. Coupa provides a unified, cloud-based spend management platform that connects hundreds of organizations representing the Americas, EMEA, and APAC with millions of suppliers globally. The Coupa platform provides greater visibility and control over how companies spend money. Customers—small, medium and large—have used the Coupa platform to bring billions of dollars in cumulative spend under management.  Learn more at www.coupa.com. Read more on the Coupa Blog or follow @Coupa on Twitter.

About ISS Group
The ISS Group was founded in Copenhagen in 1901 and has grown to become one of the world's leading Facility Services companies. ISS offers a wide range of services such as: Cleaning, Catering, Security, property and Support Services as well as Facility Management. Global revenue amounted to DKK 79.9 billion in 2017 and ISS has more than 488,000 employees and activities in more than 70 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Pacific, serving thousands of both public and private sector customers. For more information on the ISS Group, visit www.issworld.com.

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