Both forms were used to access the items. The catalogs could be internally hosted using COUPA or in a “punch out” mode using the SAP system. All of the items initially piloted ended up being in the catalog. Here’s how the roll-out fared compared to Coke’s four truths. The Coupa system would issue the PO to the provider, and a companion non-functional PO would reside in SAP out of which payment would occur from the invoice.

The decision was to keep the front end of the system in SAP, and use Coupa for a procure to order part of the P2P process. Coupa met all of them, and Coke signed a letter of intent with Coupa to deploy the system. They developed a list of 48 criteria that needed to be met in considering different P2P systems. When Coke first started looking at 3-procurement systems, they questioned why they should go out of the current SAP system that was already deployed.

Users must be able to find what they need.

When it comes to “procurement truths”, Patrick shared what he believes are critical issues that procurement needs to think about when deploying a procure to pay system. Today, Coke Consolidated is one of 64 bottlers nationwide, has 6000 employees who sell a case of coke every four seconds! The invention of the Contour bottle also came out in 1916, and in 1919, investors took Coke global.

Coke Consolidated has come up with many innovations since then, including the introduction of Cherry Coke. This led to the development of Coca Cola Consolidated, located in Greensboro North Carolina, which later moved its headquarters to Charlotte, NC. When approached by an entrepreneur interested in bottling the product, his remark was that this was “a stupid idea”, but nevertheless sold the rights to bottle the product for $1 per bottle. He sold the company to Asa Candler who commercialized the product, selling it at soda fountains all over the country. John Pemberton discovered how a carbonated beverage could be sold at soda fountains and provided a refreshing taste. At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software.Ĭoke has an incredible history dating back to 1886, when Dr.