AAA Club Alliance, Inc. Selects Coupa to Achieve Full Business Spend Automation

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Dec 04, 2018, 08:30 ET

SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), a leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced that AAA Club Alliance, Inc., the third-largest AAA club in the national AAA federation, selected Coupa to support its company growth and help transform its business by advancing and automating its BSM processes.

AAA Club Alliance has been experiencing rapid growth, particularly in its car care division and found a growing need for administrative support in its automotive shops.

Recommended by Forrester during AAA's search for viable partners, Coupa was favored for its business case in the automotive division and for its long-term vision for AAA's other lines of business. By utilizing the Coupa BSM Platform for industry-leading procure to pay capabilities, along with Coupa Advantage and Coupa's open community for supplier collaboration, AAA Club Alliance can realize administrative time and resource savings, benefits from early-pay discounts, improve supplier relationships, and better the customer service experience, all through advanced automation of the organization's spend processes.

"We made all the behavioral modifications humanly possible to boost the efficiency of our processes," said Michael Sumsky, chief financial officer at AAA Club Alliance. "Now, we are leveraging Coupa's cutting-edge technology to advance these processes even further and transform our business spend management. This will positively impact not only our front-end employees, but our customers and suppliers as well."

Coupa's comprehensive BSM platform and user-centric model will allow AAA to focus on serving its customers rather than administrative tasks.

"We selected Coupa to improve internal efficiencies by increasing the volume of electronic transactions across our lines of business," said Mark Blair, vice president, supply chain at AAA Club Alliance. "In addition, we hope to benefit from the potential cost savings we can realize through the Coupa Advantage network."

AAA, in collaboration with Coupa and Acquis Consulting, expects to quickly reach full deployment, after which it will be able to quantify success by measuring invoice automation, growth in savings, and decrease in labor.

Mark Riggs, chief customer officer at Coupa said, "AAA Club Alliance came to us looking to digitize and automate its business spend processes to scale and support its growth. We look forward to being a part of AAA's transformation and to supporting the company's ongoing success."

With the Coupa BSM Platform, companies around the world can gain the visibility and control they need to manage all their business spend in one place. To learn more, visit https://www.coupa.com/.

About Coupa
Coupa Software is the leading provider of BSM solutions. We offer a comprehensive, cloud-based BSM platform that has connected hundreds of organizations with more than four million suppliers globally. Our platform provides greater visibility into and control over how companies spend money. Using our platform, businesses are able to achieve real, measurable value and savings that drive their profitability. Learn more at www.coupa.com. Read more on the Coupa Blog or follow @Coupa on Twitter

About AAA Club Alliance
AAA Club Alliance Inc. is the third largest AAA club in the national AAA federation and serves more than six million members in Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. AAA provides automotive, travel and insurance services to 58 million members nationwide and more than one million members in Connecticut. AAA advocates for the safety and mobility of its members and has been committed to outstanding road service for more than 100 years. The not-for-profit, fully tax-paying member organization works on behalf of motorists, who can now map a route, find local gas prices, discover discounts, book a hotel and track their roadside assistance service with the AAA Mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android. For more information, visit www.aaa.com.