Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Coupa
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Coupa’s cloud-native Business Spend Management (BSM) platform provides end-to-end processes that helps drive collaboration across for every business leader from supply chain, procurement, finance, treasury, compliance, and IT and supply chain leaders to help their companies to get the visibility and control they need to spend smarter, mitigate risk, and improve resilience. A unified platform approach frees up IT from complex integrations to help leaders deliver on these goals.N/A
GEP SMART
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
GEP SMART is a procurement platform, meant as an end-to-end unified procurement solution that provides synergy between finance and purchasing and process fluidity.N/A
Pricing
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Highlights

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Coupa and GEP SMART are both procurement software. They are most commonly used by large businesses and enterprises. Coupa is sometimes adopted by smaller organizations as well. 

Beyond general procurement processes, Coupa has some additional capabilities like inventory management, and it also is heavily used for its invoicing management features. GEP SMART focuses on its spend visibility features, unifying spend processes and expense management across disparate financial systems within the enterprise. 

Features

Both Coupa and GEP SMART have various specializations that help them stand out among users. 

Coupa excels in its invoice management capabilities. The platform’s flexibility around invoicing capabilities makes it a viable option beyond traditional procurement industries like manufacturing. It also has excellent integrations with other financial systems organizations use, such as Enterprise Resource Planning platforms. 

GEP SMART stands out for its visibility into enterprises’ global spend, allowing for a unified view of expenses within the procurement process. Additionally, reviewers highlight the vendor’s excellent customer support throughout GEP SMART’s implementation and product lifecycle. GEP SMART also has robust customization abilities, particularly around workflows and reporting. 

Limitations

There are also drawbacks to Coupa and GEP SMART alike that buyers should keep in mind. 

Coupa’s excellence around invoicing trades off with lackluster expense support. Expense management processes have been bottlenecks and points of frustration for some users, particularly managing and reporting on expenses as an administrator. Related to these frustrations, Coupa’s mobile application is also far weaker and less efficient than the desktop application, limiting on-the-go expense reporting. The interface is also not user friendly for administrators and end-users alike. 

On the other hand, GEP SMART can require more manual actions than users might be used to. There is limited automation in certain areas, especially when sending data between various procurement processes. There are also some limitations in e-invoicing in certain geographic areas. 

Pricing

Coupa does not specify pricing publicly. Pricing is instead quoted on a customer-by-customer basis. 

GEP SMART pricing is also offered by quote from the vendor.

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User Ratings
CoupaGEP SMART
Likelihood to Recommend
5.5
(25 ratings)
7.3
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(11 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CoupaGEP SMART
Likelihood to Recommend
Coupa Software
I am new to customer-supplier portals in my career. I use several different ones in my current role, including Ariba and Tipalti. To be honest, I don't really enjoy the user experience of any of them. I can see how larger companies may benefit from their services but for my current role submitting invoices on them and filling out vendor information requests seems somewhat clunky to me. When I'm in Coupa, the easiest, most non-clunky process for me is when I'm successfully connected with a customer who has successfully created their purchase order and I can easily upload my invoice to said PO. To me, emailing customer invoices directly to the customer from our invoicing system seems like the easier route of delivering an invoice. I suppose it is helpful and reassuring to know that an invoice has been successfully uploaded into a company's system rather than waiting to find out if your emailed invoice made it to the correct department for payment processing.
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GEP
They are starting to expand in the direct procurement area and it would be good to see continued offerings in this area. The GEP supplier portal is a great way for suppliers to maintain visibility and increase efficiencies without an additional charge to the supplier. It has a high ease of use.
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Pros
Coupa Software
  • Coupa is easy to use, however, we had to teach our end users about procurement. They are not used to conducting an RFP, onboarding a supplier, or preparing a PO. This is the change management that our employees had to be prepared to understand. The Shelby Group helped us with the implementation.
  • The hardest part was the integration between NetSuite and Coupa. We wanted to have a dynamic tight integration between the two solutions. If we adjusted the chart of accounts or added a new supplier we wanted it to be able to done in both systems and be available immediately in both systems. We used a partner called SuiteSkies to accomplish this dynamic integration.
  • We’ve been able to manage the implementation and maintenance with a very lean IT group.
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GEP
  • SMART is flexible and scalable.
  • The account team is there to listen client concerns and business needs.
  • The engineering team is willing to share their concepts in development and vet with their clients prior to production release. They value client feedback.
  • GEP has a lot of progressive thinkers and is willing to invest in new technology trends such as AI, Machine Learning, digital adoption, etc.
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Cons
Coupa Software
  • Support Team - A little slow in responding. I think the tool is so configurable that they struggle with figuring out what is causing certain issues that are being submitted on the portal.
  • I'd love for the Sourcing Module to be able to support larger events. There seems to be a limit on the number of lines each event can support and as a growing retailer, our store count dictates we have room to grow and that each store is represented in the bid process.
  • Would like to see the ability to issue multiple POs for a single item to multiple locations. The tool may do this but I know I can't and it may be due to how we interface with our ERP.
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GEP
  • Our organization has yet to take advantage of upgrading to the latest version of GEP SMART. The version that we are on does not make use of the full screen for the different internal windows and pop-up windows. I find it cumbersome to scroll left-right and up-down on the smaller windows when there is much real-estate on the screen that could optimize the user interface.
  • GEP SMART provides technical support but our vendors seem to have some difficulty logging in to their profiles and updating their information. Occasionally, the salesperson delegates to another internal member so we'll have to set up the new member with their log in.
  • The digital signature process requires that the signers of the agreement be defined before the agreement is routed for approval. Sometimes our vendors have a pool of signers that could sign the agreements and it can become a small challenge to change the signers after it has already been defined in GEP SMART.
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Likelihood to Renew
Coupa Software
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GEP
The tool is fantastic, but we are investigating a broader spend management solution at the moment which may mean we look in a different direction for this capability, most likely internally developed.
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Usability
Coupa Software
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GEP
The platform's usability compares favorably with those that it competes within the market. Our employees have not endured a stressful change management process because the tool is relatively intuitive. The advantage of being cloud-native and built with usability in mind from the get-go gives GEP a real advantage over many of its competitors.
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Performance
Coupa Software
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GEP
I experience many issues in the UAT environment when the page is slow to load or will not load at all. I use the UAT environment to run training sessions to take potential users through all the functionality available. When the system is slow to load and keeps crashing it gives potential users a very bad first impression and significantly reduces the adoption rate.
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Support Rating
Coupa Software
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GEP
The support team is responsive, smart, and knowledgeable about their product and about our business needs. They are also flexible to respond to questions and find solutions to our requirements.
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Implementation Rating
Coupa Software
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GEP
Although we had encountered many bugs, GEP was able to address them quickly, and sent a technical person to sit in our hands-on training sessions to address bugs efficiently
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Alternatives Considered
Coupa Software
Concur was a lot easier and more user friendly for employees doing expense reports on their phone. That is not the case with Coupa. You must use your laptop to do expenses and our managers don't always have enough time to do that while out in the field working. This has caused some issues.
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GEP
We selected GEP SMART for its ability to offer a full end-to-end integrated source-to-pay solution, pricing, and ease of use. There was an implementation series offered by GEP, as well as flexibility, customization, account management team dedication, and the overall service and support.
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Return on Investment
Coupa Software
  • It has allowed for proper processing of expenses tied directly to the proper LOB and GL Codes
  • Has taken the guesswork away and allowed for the proper budgets to be hit and reconciled
  • Ease of use has led to mass adoption and more prompt processing of expenses
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GEP
  • GEP SMART has improved our spend analytics speed by allowing analysis to be completed in minutes compared to days when we previously used Excel spreadsheets.
  • The SMART Sourcing (RFX) solution has greatly improved the consistency of our supplier quoting and information gathering process.
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ScreenShots

Coupa Screenshots

Screenshot of Transform your company’s supply chain planning from running one-off projects to a consistent and repeatable process.Screenshot of Efficiently capture data for apples-to-apples comparisons of suppliers across business requirements, risk factors, ESG, and costs to find the best solution.Screenshot of Understand supplier relationships, ensure that the right mitigation is in place, and onboard suppliers. Use trusted data services, Community.ai, and performance feedback to spot risk and optimize relationships over time.Screenshot of Bring the results of sourcing events and risk vetting together to quickly formalize agreements without costly omissions or delays.Screenshot of Give users an easy experience for all types of goods, services, and contingent worker needs while bubbling up ESG and other favored suppliers. Streamline budget checks and approvals simple emails to get move spend pre-approved, on-contract, and under control.Screenshot of Give suppliers a variety of options for submitting e-invoices — all without fees and in compliance with VAT and global regulations. Boost supplier adoption of e-invoicing by giving visibility into status of invoice approval and digital payments.

GEP SMART Screenshots

Screenshot of Landing PageScreenshot of Create Tasks and DocumentsScreenshot of Manage TasksScreenshot of Analytical ReportsScreenshot of Savings Projects - Tracking ResultsScreenshot of Spend Dashboard