ABeam Consulting, Coupa K.K.
Begin offering comprehensive support services,
Enhancing corporate resilience to supply chain disruptions and risks

　ABeam Consulting Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Tatsuya Kamoi, President and CEO) and Coupa K.K. (Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and Country Manager: Takashi Ozeki) have begun collaboration on supply chain network design and Digital Transformation (DX) promotion of supply chain operations centered on procurement and purchasing. To strengthen corporate resilience to various disruptions and risks in the supply chain, we will begin providing comprehensive support services that enable rapid and optimal supply chain design across departments.
 

■ Initiative Overview
　"Coupa," the cloud-based Business Spend Management (BSM) platform provided by Coupa Software Incorporated, helps companies manage and optimize all business spending and processes related to their supply chain, procurement, and purchasing.
　Coupa's supply chain design solution helps companies design highly resilient supply chains through simulation trials and analysis. It enables them to take advantage of AI and digital twin technologies to reproduce their own supply chains in digital form. They can then run multifaceted simulations that account for various social and fluid factors and risks, such as cost, lead times, inventories and other indicators, as well as social conditions, and CO2 emissions.
　Coupa's procurement and purchasing solutions enable integration and management of all corporate spending and processes on a unified platform. From procurement to payment and financial management, it can all be controlled and improved consistently to optimize costs and operational efficiency, thereby mitigating risk and strengthening governance.
　ABeam Consulting aims to transform the corporate supply chain into a next-generation smart supply chain adapted to the evolution of digital technology in order to realize a more robust and sustainable supply chain. In this context, the Coupa platform is positioned as a solution that enables rapid decision-making in today's increasingly complex supply chain operations, as well as seamless integration of corporate and organizational processes where supply chain design involves procurement and purchasing.
　ABeam Consulting and Coupa K.K. are not only supporting the streamlining of procurement and purchasing operations through the digitalization of supplier collaboration, but also provide comprehensive support to strengthen the supply chain resiliency that enables companies to flexibly respond to global disruptions and risks. From the development of a roadmap strategy to strengthen organizational structure, to the formulation of policies for supplier risk management regulations, we provide comprehensive support by leveraging our extensive experience and knowledge as supply chain management (SCM) professionals to establish a system and processes to continuously redesign the entire supply chain in-house.
　By combining Coupa’s technology with ABeam Consulting's business transformation expertise and execution capabilities, we help companies build schemes that enable them to make optimal choices based on management policies in their supply chain operations, which are becoming increasingly sophisticated due to technological advances and changes in social conditions and the environment. By strengthening supply chain resiliency in this way, we help companies achieve sustainable procurement and purchasing operations.
 

■ Collaboration Background
　Efforts to address supply chain challenges have long focused primarily on cost and efficiency. However, increasingly diverse risks and social issues have recently been emerging, which companies need to be aware of and respond to. These include disruptions and breakdowns in global supply chains due to recent pandemics and conflicts, environmental issues such as CO2 emissions, and human rights issues related to forced labor in procurement.
　In many cases, corporate supply chain operations go only so far as the optimization of individual measures for each company department or location, and there is currently no scheme in place for rapid cross-departmental collaboration and decision-making to address diverse issues.
It is in response to these challenges that our two companies have launched this service, which not only improves operational efficiency but also helps companies strengthen their resilience to disruptions and risks for sustainable supply chain business and operations.
 

■ Endorsements
Yoshifumi Yamanaka, Principal Executive Officer and SCM Sector Leader, Digital Process Business Unit, ABeam Consulting Ltd.
　Evolutionary advances in digital technology have made it possible to visualize supply chain risks and realize multifaceted, quantitative, and future-oriented simulations. In the current environment, where trade and economic disruptions known as decoupling are causing logistics delays and reduced economic activity, it is of the utmost importance that companies have the capability to redesign their supply chains on their own. Through this collaboration, ABeam Consulting's expertise as a logistics conceptualization and infrastructure platform provider will be combined with Coupa's technology and service offerings to help strengthen corporate resilience. ABeam Consulting will thus become an even stronger DX partner for companies and organizations than ever.
 

Takashi Ozeki, Representative Director and Country Manager, Coupa K.K.
　Companies today face issues of achieving sustainable corporate growth while simultaneously realizing challenges related to environmental, social and governance matters. Supply chain strategy can play a central role in resolving these issues. By combining the abundant knowledge and execution capabilities that ABeam Consulting brings to the supply chain domain with Coupa’s BSM platform, we aim to help achieve sustainable corporate growth by advancing supply chain strategies, while being mindful of environmental, social and governance factors.

ABeam Consulting is an integrated management consulting firm that provides global services tailored to each country and region through its worldwide network centered in Asia. The wide range of consulting services it provides include strategy, BPR, IT, organization/personnel, outsourcing and other domains of specialized expertise. Roughly 6,900 richly experienced professional ABeam consultants advise in the areas of finance, manufacturing, distribution, energy, information communications, as well as industry, and organizations in the public sector and other sectors. ABeam Consulting creates the future together with corporations and other organizations. As a creative partner leading the way reliably through change, we contribute to industrial and societal change.
Website: https://www.abeam.com/jp/

Coupa is the cloud-based Business Spend Management (BSM) platform that unifies processes across supply chain, procurement, and finance functions. Coupa K.K. is a joint venture between Coupa Software Incorporated and Japan Cloud. Coupa K.K. is committed to providing "Value as a Service" to help organizations maximize value from their spend by integrating supply chain design and planning, purchasing and procurement, payments, and finance processes into one cloud-based BSM platform in Japan. More than 2,500 clients, ranging from Fortune 100 firms to some of the world's fastest growing companies, are leveraging community insights through Coupa's BSM platform to maximize value and operationalize purpose through their business spend.
Website: https://coupa.co.jp/

ABeam Consulting Ltd.
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Yumiko Yoshida
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Coupa K.K.
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Yoshie Otsuki (Japan Cloud)
E-mail: sotsuki@japancloud.co.jp