Gartner defines the source-to-pay (S2P) suite market as an integrated set of solutions to source, contract, request, procure, receive and pay for goods and services across an enterprise. These solutions typically are sold as cloud-based software as a service.
Source-to-pay suites allow organizations to manage all of their sourcing and procurement activities within a single integrated solution. These solutions are modular in nature, allowing customers to activate/implement the functionality that is relevant for their needs, and are ERP/financial-system-agnostic. The integrated nature of these solutions allows for data to easily flow across the source-to-pay process, providing needed visibility to upstream and downstream information. For example, users can view a purchase order alongside its related contract, the sourcing event that led to the contract, and connected downstream documents like receipts, invoices and payments.

Source-to-Pay Suites

Gartner defines IT vendor risk management (IT VRM) as the discipline of addressing the residual risk that businesses and governments face when working with external service providers, IT vendors and related third parties. The scope typically addresses risks related to data protection, business continuity, security and other risk domains as relevant to laws, regulation and industry practices.

IT Vendor Risk Management Solutions (Transitioning to Third-Party Risk Management Technology Solutions)

IT Vendor Risk Management Solutions

Strategic sourcing application suites are a set of related, integrated solutions that support upstream procurement activities; in other words, the strategic work the procurement team does for planning, assessment and performance management. Strategic sourcing application suites are used primarily by companies with $800 million or more in annual revenue that, typically, have the necessary critical mass of spend. The strategic sourcing application suite delivers four primary capabilities. Most vendors offer these capabilities as separately licensable modules: Spend analysis is a software- and service-based solution for cleansing, enhancing, classifying and analyzing spend data. It features rule-based data cleansing, automated category-level classification, analytics and decision support. Automated spend analysis is used in procurement and sourcing to quantify spend by supplier, category and part, and to identify opportunities for cost reduction and supply base resizing.

Strategic Sourcing Application Suites

Gartner defines supply chain planning (SCP) solutions as platforms that provide technological support to enable a company to manage, link, align, collaborate and share its planning data across an extended supply chain. An SCP solution supports planning, ranging from demand planning through detailed supply-side response planning, and from strategic planning to execution-level planning. It is the planning decision repository for a defined end-to-end supply chain. It is also the environment in which end-to-end-integrated supply chain decisions are managed. It establishes a single version of the truth for planning data and decisions, regardless of the underlying execution technology environment.

Supply Chain Planning Solutions

Supplier risk management solutions are advanced technology platforms designed to facilitate comprehensive supplier risk management activities. These platforms not only aid in the identification and continuous monitoring of potential risks, such as financial instability, geopolitical concerns, and compliance challenges, but also enable a thorough analysis of their holistic impact. Furthermore, they support the coordination of both operational and strategic responses to mitigate these risks effectively. Integral to end-to-end supply chain risk management, supplier risk management aims to assist organizations in mitigating prioritized risks across the entire supply ecosystem — encompassing both physical and digital domains.

Supplier Risk Management Solutions

Gartner defines network design as the optimization of the location and function of supply, manufacturing and distribution networks in support of an overarching company strategy and customer requirements. Supply chain network design tools support the creation of network models with the application of analytics to determine the optimal supply chain design in a structured, scalable and repeatable way.
Supply chain network design tools support the determination of recommendations about the structure of the supply chain network. This includes decisions about facility locations and size, transport lanes, and modes in the end-to-end supply chain. The scale of the changes being evaluated vary from small modifications, such as changing a mode of transport or swapping transportation lanes, to large-scale changes that involve opening/closing/repurposing several facilities in the network and the associated knock on impacts.
The use of supply chain network design tools to support the decision-making process enables companies to review more potential configurations for the network than a manual process allows, supporting a complete, data-driven decision making process. These decisions are usually made in strategic and tactical time frames.

Supply Chain Network Design Tools

A cost-to-serve analysis creates a solid understanding on where and how costs are incurred through an organization. It is about modeling costs that are different for each customer and product, and ensuring they are allocated fairly. The CTS analysis solution market’s most common use cases are:
- More informed product portfolio management
- Costing decisions and supply network design
- Gain sharing between suppliers and customers
- Identification and allocation of costs to suppliers and customers
- Improved process and resource efficiency

Supply Chain Cost-to-Serve Analytics Technology

Gartner defines the accounts payable applications market as cloud-based applications that enable corporate controllers and their teams to automatically manage supplier invoice processing, facilitate payments and support supplier master data management across one or more ERP applications.
Organizations use accounts payable applications to improve their supplier invoice processing, payments and supplier master data management activities. They allow organizations to efficiently and confidently pay supplier invoices. These applications are modular cloud-based tools that customers can configure to deliver standard processes and integrate with one or more ERP applications. Additionally, they integrate with other operational tools, such as source-to-pay suites, partner networks, banks and payment service providers, while creating flexibility for suppliers to deliver supplier invoices. An example would be the collection and processing of supplier invoices using a digital mailroom, whereby data (structured and unstructured) is extracted from scanned documents and validated prior to approval for payment.

Accounts Payable Applications

Organizations use expense management software to simplify their expense reimbursement and reconciliation process. The software provides facilities for expense report creation, submission, approval, reimbursement, and accounting. The software replaces the manual paperwork with an automated workflow to upload, track and submit expense receipts conveniently. These reimbursement receipts are accessible to the administrators through a streamlined process to approve the claims while checking for any corporate policy violations. In addition, the software assists organizations in keeping track of their employee’s corporate expenses.

Expense Management Software

The supply chain A&DI technology market spans capabilities that provide different types of analytics, focusing on predictive and prescriptive ones. Many of these offerings have been enhanced with AI and DSML capabilities to support supply chain decision making. These capabilities could either be part of a broader supply chain application/suite or a separate encompassing A&DI platform. Such a platform consists of existing and emerging technologies, including: Graph technology, Advanced analytics, AI, DSML, Model development & Digital supply chain twin (DSCT).

Analytics and Decision Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain (Transitioning to Analytics and Decision-Making Platforms for Supply Chain)

Analytics and Decision Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain

Corporate Travel Management Software empowers organizations to streamline the process of arranging travels and managing all travel-related expenses while complying with corporate travel policies. The software allows employees to book, manage and track trips without the intervention of any specialist agents. These trips can be approved and reimbursed by the administrators through an automated approval workflow. Organizations use software to create travel data reports as well as to gain insights to control and optimize their travel spend. The functionality of the software is also extended to tracking and consolidating historical travel invoices.

Corporate Travel Management Software

Gartner defines contract life cycle management (CLM) market as a solution that proactively manages contracts from initiation through negotiation, execution, compliance and renewal. In this context, a contract is any agreement or contractual document containing rights and obligations that affect an organization now or in the future (e.g., a nondisclosure agreement).
CLM solutions allow organizations to create, negotiate and store contracts in a centralized repository. Using these solutions helps mitigate organizational risk by enabling regulatory and policy compliance, providing governance over what is signed and with whom, and role-based access to terms and obligations with third parties. CLM solutions drive visibility, consistency and efficiency in the contracting process across an enterprise. Use cases are primarily aligned to parts of the process, such as presignature and postsignature. Different departments often prioritize a certain use case based on their involvement in the contracting process.

Contract Life Cycle Management

E-sourcing applications enable organizations to organize, solicit and evaluate requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs) from suppliers. These applications enable competitive bidding where the outcome is typically a long-term agreement. Most e-sourcing applications also support reverse auction capabilities. Some applications enable large-scale complex bid events with thousands of line items and awards spanning multiple suppliers.

E-Sourcing Applications (Transitioning to Sourcing Applications)

E-Sourcing Applications

E-invoicing compliance applications software enables compliant delivery and receipt of invoices between suppliers, buyers, and tax authorities. These solutions automate invoice creation, transmission, validation, reporting, and archiving, and are typically delivered as cloud-based platforms to ensure organizations meet evolving global e-invoicing and transactional tax reporting mandates. They seamlessly integrate with an organization’s internal systems—such as ERP, billing, accounts payable, document management, and payment gateways—while also connecting to external networks. This integration ensures compliant exchange of invoices across suppliers, buyers and tax authorities. By implementing these solutions, organizations achieve accurate invoice processing, reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties, and meet real-time or continuous tax reporting obligations. Ultimately, they enable efficient global operations and smoother cross-border transactions, benefiting roles such as CIOs, CFOs, procurement leaders, compliance officers, and accounts payable owners.

E-invoicing Compliance Applications

Coupa Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

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Coupa

SAP Ariba

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Zycus Source to Pay Suite

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PRM360 Simplified Procure-to-Pay Suite

Acads360

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Ivalua Source-to-Pay

Ivalua

Esker Source-To-Pay

Esker

Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement

Oracle

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Procurement Manager

corporate supplier; high frequence of switching accountmanagers, not always people avaiable in  Dutch, somewhat unclear prcingmodel. Product is working well

Coupa is providing an E2E solution for our STP process and system, aligning out technology roadmap with Coupa as an implementation partner has been a great experience, making sure we setup and design the solutions to the best interest of our company and ensuring we are set for success 

Basware

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Tradeshift

Corcentric

Microsoft

Varis

BirchStreet Systems

Synertrade

Xeeva

OpusCapita

ELCOM

ProcurePort

Perfect Commerce

Medius

BravoSolution, a JAGGAER Company

Comarch

Mercado Eletrônico

Procurify

Vroozi

Associate

Software is a bit antiquated, and the process does not seem as efficient as it could be

SENIOR NETSUITE ADMINISTRATOR

For years we were told that Coupa is the benchmark of P2P management, and is supposed to be a world class platform. I don't get it. On a weekly, sometimes daily basis, I roll my eyes at things I learn about how the platform functions, and what it can't do. The latest analysis puts Coupa high in the leader quadrant, I don't understand why.

Procurement Director

We now are supported by a third party vendor (Cross Country) and things are very smooth. 

Sr. Business System Analyst

Still has lots of gap to fill with the process and many use cases are not covered within the solution. 

IT ADVISOR

The Coupa team of Customer Value Managers (CVM's) we've worked with has consistently demonstrated excellence, offering valuable insights, effective solutions, and ongoing support throughout our engagement.  The Coupa platform itself is highly intuitive and user-friendly, allowing our teams to navigate it with ease.  Additionally, its flexibility enables us to tailor configurations to meet our specific business requirements in most cases.

Group Product Manager

Overall experience with Coupa has been quite positive. This platform has played a significant role in helping us achieve our KPIs, including improved financial tracking and a reduction in manual workload on the operations team. It has also helped us to strengthen compliance while delivering a great user experience.

Global Product Manager- Finance Source To Pay Transformation

Overall the experience with Coupa has been very positive. The Coupa platform has streamlined procurement including the Supplier Onboarding, Risk and Compliance in BCG. The user interface is intuitive and adoption has been strong across  multiple teams within BCG. The CAM team has been very supportive in answering our queries as well as providing the best in market solutions for BCG's specific needs. The Coupa Support Model is transparent, and their response has helped to overcome the day to day tasks. Overall really satisfied with using Coupa .

Executive Manager

From a product perspective, Coupa feels like the "Android" version of a S2P suite, with a significant amount of operational customisation available. Approval workflows, restricted access groups and granular user permissions allow the ability to customise the way in which the business interacts with the tool, catering for a variety of use cases, depending on which part of the business is using the tool.

The vendor's customer success team has been very receptive and has guided us through the journey.

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Global Logistics Sourcing Manager

Coupa has been a significant value driver for our company. We have leveraged the platform to save millions year over year in a historically weak freight market. Coupa makes things so much easier. The API capabilities have allowed us to drive innovation and increase efficiency across our logistics sourcing organization.

ENTERPRISE PLATFORM OWNER COUPA

overall good experience while using the product who consistently focus on continuous improvements

Director, Digital Procurement Transformation

Overall, our experience has been exceptional, with Coupa meeting our overall business case. 

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

The Coupa team overall has been super helpful. It's great that they provide dedicated support to the team in CVM's and CAMs. Coupa has great UX/UI and a relatively easy setup. We leverage Coupa for all of our vendor onboarding, P2P, and payments. We have saved significant time in our procure-to-pay process by leveraging CoupaPay

Analytics Lead

The buyers using this product love it and the system analyst likes how configurable it is.

Director of IT

We implemented Coupa Source to Pay across eighty plus countries in ~18 months and the experience and partnership was great 

My experience with Coupa has been positive.  The platform is intuitive and user friendly.

Director of Finance

Customer service has been exceptional along with ongoing follow up and collaboration.

Accounts Payable Manager

P-card and expense reporting has helped tremendously for all users

HEAD OF DATA AND INTEGRATIONS

Good overall product, implementation is great. Ease of use and works well within organization

Sr. Analyst

I have worked as a system admin on the Coupa platform across 2 companies for over 7 years.  Coupa has allowed both companies to centralize the buying process to have more control and accountability over all purchases.  It also allows us better visibility and tracking to drive better decision making.

Coupa is a software designed for business spend management, enabling organizations to control and optimize procurement, invoicing, and expenses. The software provides modules for sourcing, contract management, supplier collaboration, and analytics to help monitor and manage financial operations. Through its cloud-based platform, users can automate purchasing workflows, enforce compliance with policies, and gain visibility into spend data. Coupa addresses challenges such as manual processing, lack of spend control, and limited insight into supplier performance, supporting businesses in improving efficiency and reducing costs associated with unmanaged spending.

Coupa Software is a cloud-based platform focusing on business spend management (BSM). The primary objective of Coupa Software is to provide companies with the necessary tools and features needed to gain visibility and control over their business expenditures, enabling them to make more effective and secure spending decisions. The company has a global outreach and serves an extensive range of businesses worldwide.

Coupa Software is the cloud platform for business spend management (BSM). Coupa empowers companies around the world with the visibility and control they need to spend smarter and safer. To learn more about how Coupa can help you spend smarter, visit www.coupa.com. Read Coupa Blog https://www.coupa.com/blog/ or follow @Coupa on Twitter.