Coupa’s annual Sustainability Report reveals company progress on inclusivity, sustainability, and compliance; customers continue to use its platform to advance sustainability goals and initiatives
Coupa, the leading AI platform for total spend management, released its annual FY25 Sustainability Report, showcasing the company’s commitment to building more resilient and purpose-driven organizations. The report also highlights how customers are using Coupa’s leading AI total spend management platform to deliver on their own sustainability goals while driving sourcing and supplier efficiency, mitigating risks, decreasing carbon emissions, ensuring compliance and long term business resiliency.
“We have always believed that business can and should be a force for good. We want global trade to be fairer, more effective, and more sustainable with Coupa serving at the epicenter of it. This belief shaped our vision nineteen years ago when we asked customers to share their data with us, leading to responsible, community-generated stewardship of their data that informs our AI and helps organizations around the globe become more efficient, productive, and sustainable,” said Leagh Turner, Coupa CEO. “Looking ahead, our commitment is clear: we will continue to work hand-in-hand with our entire Community of employees, customers, partners, and suppliers to further embed sustainability across our operations, platform, and innovations.”
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Driving Growth, Improving Margins, and Ensuring Compliance for Global Customers
Coupa’s platform relieves the pressure leaders face to enhance resiliency while driving growth, improving margins, advancing sustainability, and ensuring compliance. Using proprietary, community-generated data from customers, suppliers, and partners, Coupa AI surfaces sustainability data into the spend and supply visibility workflow. Businesses can use the AI-driven platform to reduce environmental impacts, support supplier diversity, increase supply chain sustainability and transparency, and stay compliant with increasing regulations.
- Tetra Pak, a multinational food processing and packaging company, is using Coupa to reduce supplier risk, manage logistics categories, and meet its goal to be net zero by 2050.
- Saint-Gobain, a global manufacturer, uses Coupa to analyze routes across various business units to optimize transportation, reducing emissions by 40-60% across several of its brands.
- Mastercard uses Coupa to help achieve its net zero goals by 2040, improving ESG data collection to better identify suppliers in scope, enhance supplier onboarding, and capture sustainability data with RFP modules.
“At Mastercard, environment and social impact are core to our business. With the right data and technologies, we are able to more effectively manage greenhouse gas emissions that come from our supply chain. We aim to build a transparent, resilient supply base that supports our mission to create a sustainable autonomy where everyone can prosper,” said Ryan Loock, Mastercard Vice President, Global Supply Chain Management.
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Improved Inclusivity, Sustainability, and ComplianceÂ
Coupa fosters a culture of collaboration, trust, and shared growth, empowering employees to lead with integrity, take initiative, and contribute new ideas. Company highlights over the past year include:
Inclusion, Innovation, and Development
- 54,000+Â hours spent on professional development
- Launched Todos, a new employee resource group (ERG) to support Latinx and Latino communities
- Launched the ERG Leadership Academy to align leaders on strategy, enhance collaboration, and strengthen impact
- Expanded its core values to include “Cultivate Belonging,” ensuring employee voices are heard and valued
- 50%+Â of patents were invented or co-invented by women
Climate-Conscious Operations
- Conducted its first climate risk scenario analysis in line with the framework established by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
- Decreased energy use through renewable electricity and automatic power management across global offices
- 21% decrease in Scope 3 emissions intensity year-over-year
Collaboration with Communities
- Employees volunteered 3,500+ hours with 850 organizations, including Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, SuitUp, Change Please Foundation and more
- 3,500+ miles ran or cycled as part of the Coupa Challenge, raising donations to Guide Dogs for the Blind, the American Red Cross and World Vision
