Why Manage Content in Coupa?  To enable your employees to spend smarter and save money with an easy-to-use and innovative tool!
What spend should go through Coupa?  To fully Optimize your Coupa investment and drive results to your bottom line you should target having all your Non-Payroll or all your Indirect Spend flow through Coupa. 

Many organizations start using Coupa to address specific tactical issues within their organization and do not look beyond initial target categories (e.g. IT spend or Services Spend).  Content management is an ongoing process as Sourcing groups are continually evaluating your supply base.  The good news is that by utilizing Coupa for all types of spend you will have rich spend history which can be used by your Sourcing team.

Content Considerations

1. Do top supplier have catalogs?  Should they?  Should they be managing instead of you?
2. Are you doing a lot of free-form items for items that can be in a catalog?
3. Are you doing free-form where you can standardize with a form?
4. Are you missing out on using punchout with suppliers who are currently supporting punchout?
5. Are you able to capture spend that is submitted after the fact via your expense reporting process?
   

Content Approaches - Coupa supports all the standard content approaches of other provides and additionally supports  iRequest, which no other eProcurement provider can support.