AMLI Residential Celebrates Success of Their Strategic Partnership and Digital Transformation Using Coupa

AMLI Residential is leveraging Coupa's AI-native platform to drive smarter spend, accelerating business agility, and unlocking greater business value across its real estate operations

FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Coupa, the leading AI platform for total spend management, today celebrated the success of its strategic partnership with AMLI Residential, a premier real estate firm known for its sustainable and resident-first innovation in multifamily living. Since going live in May 2024, AMLI has made significant strides in digitally transforming its procurement operations, boosting operational agility and unlocking new business value using Coupa.

As part of AMLI's broader digital transformation strategy, the company moved off a legacy system and adopted Coupa's unified platform to streamline sourcing and procurement, improve spend visibility, and enable data-informed decision-making. The implementation has fostered better cross-team collaboration, improved operational speed, and laid the foundation for continued innovation and scalable growth.

With Coupa's modern user experience, consumer-grade design and configurable capabilities, AMLI tailored the platform to meet the specialized needs of its real estate operations — supporting everything from onsite procurement workflows to supplier collaboration. The platform's AI-driven automation and ease of use have resulted in broad user adoption and enthusiastic engagement across AMLI's teams.

Looking ahead, AMLI is expanding its use of Coupa to include appliance tracking, inventory optimization, and additional use cases to drive companywide efficiency and innovation in real estate operations.

"Switching off legacy systems after nearly two decades was a big change for us, but Coupa has elevated and modernized our processes in ways even we didn't anticipate," said Joshua Pierle, Vice President of Procurement at AMLI Residential. "The platform is intuitive, sleek and easy to use — helping us collaborate much more effectively across departments. Our partnership with Coupa has provided the agility and flexibility we need to streamline our procurement processes and function, allowing us to fuel new innovation and deliver more strategic value across the business."

"AMLI Residential's transformational journey reflects the power of aligning people, process and technology to drive real results," said John Frank, Chief Customer Officer at Coupa. "We're proud to support AMLI in modernizing procurement, boosting business agility and building a more connected, intelligent company." Beyond operational gains, AMLI's work with Coupa has also catalyzed internal career advancement and skill development for AMLI team members, underscoring the platform's role in empowering procurement leaders and to enable their teams and people to perform higher order work and provide more strategic contributions across the business.

Coupa provides businesses around the world with the visibility, control and AI-powered intelligence needed to manage all their direct and indirect business spend and multiply margins. To learn more, visit www.coupa.com.

About Coupa
Coupa is the leading AI platform for total spend management. Using its trusted, community-generated, $8 trillion dataset, Coupa brings autonomous AI agents, a network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers, and leading apps together on one unified platform to seamlessly automate the buying process and connect to customers in a whole new way. With Coupa, you'll make margins multiply™. Learn more at coupa.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X (Twitter).

About AMLI Residential
AMLI Residential focuses on the development and management of environmentally responsible apartment communities throughout the U.S. Founded in 1980, AMLI is owned by PRIME Property Fund, a core commingled institutional fund. AMLI owns and manages 79 apartment communities, including approximately 26,300 apartment homes, and has over 2,500 additional apartment homes under development at six new communities. AMLI is a leader in multifamily sustainability. Fifty-one AMLI communities are LEED^®-certified, and 50 communities are ENERGY STAR^®-certified. For more information, visit www.amli.com.

SOURCE Coupa Software