Coupa vs. Outlaw

Suitable: Simple indirect procurement. Low cost; short cycle implementation. Less Suitable: Complex procurement scenario requiring serious vendor collaboration. End-to-end integration. Direct Material Procurement, especially when planning, quality inspection, and other miscellaneous activities are involved, requires handling various special statuses and updates to meet industry- or country-specific requirements.

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Well suited to template led document creation - where multiple non legal users can create contracts that are locked down and secure from error. Because it is a niche platform it can be tough to persuade users outside our business to use collaboration features. Often we have to export and revert to using MS word for red-lining/track changes.

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• A consistent format is helpful because if you learn the tool once, then you should be set for long term success.
• Straightforward with some of the fields (not all), but for some pieces of work. It is easy enough due to the direct nature of the tool.

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• Easy to use from the contracting side.
• Ability to create a template that fits are needs exactly how we want.
• Easy to connect the consultant with the contract via link or email.

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• With one particular customer I have had about 40 emails to be accepted as a vendor. With other customers before Coupa became horrendous I had no problems. As an existing Coupa user why do I have to create a new profile?
• I have been accepted as a user 3 times then a day later Coupa wants the same form filled again and again.
• Help is only on a chat line. You cannot speak to anyone and in my opinion they are not helpful. Their suggstions have gotten me nowhere. They refer me to talk with my customer to straighten out the problem. My cusotmer doesn't have a clue.
• I'm considering not to accept purchase orders that require invoicing through Coupa.

• Export function to be more easily used.
• Ability to access fully executed documents more easily (the different version histories results in the wrong version being downloaded a lot).
• Notifications for when a contract is fully executed if you aren't the signee but do need to be notified.

Incentivized

I love using coupa but i'm not the decision maker in this regard.

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-Could be easy or hard to use depending on corporate policies and compliance. At times, errors and cryptical message associated with them could drive users mad.

Incentivized

Great user interface and great training and support by the Outlaw team. Whenever we had a question, they were always available to help. Loading templates made the contract process so much quicker and required less approval's from our leadership team, which makes it easier for everyone to do their jobs

Incentivized

-Support is generally speaking OK (not great). The user community is quite active, and the response time is acceptable. I would certainly hope there's more user-generated content (like in SAP, Oracle, and Linux, etc.), but I suppose Coupa is still not large enough, and the incentives are not yet there.

Incentivized

The support has been A+. Outlaw is always there when I'm having issues or need assistance. They will get back to me the same day or next. The support team is very knowledgeable and explains it very simplified for us. Julie Appel with Outlaw has been the perfect support for my company in rolling out Outlaw and answering any questions we have.

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The employee that trained me was not particularly interesting in teaching me but they were not a Coupa employee.

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Coupa fits within our desire to have best of breed systems delivering value to our organization. We generally work with true cloud providers that are available anytime, anywhere for our mobile workforce. We are pleased that Coupa is in our lineup of service solutions.

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The main reason we chose Outlaw was the price and customer service. The customer service at Outlaw has been outstanding in helping us learn the process and set up contracts. They are available all the time and respond very quickly. Julie Appel is the best at Outlaw!

Incentivized

• The Sourcing Module has returned our investment 23 times on an annualized basis.
• We're now SOX compliant and as a public company, that's keeping us compliant with our corporate charter.
• Having one central invoicing location has reduced our AP calls significantly. Our suppliers now have visibility into where their invoice is in the payment cycle. We also have a much higher invoice-to-pay cycle.

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• Faster contract process. Our process is smoother and faster then it ever was before.
• Employee efficiency. The process is quicker and has saved time, but I think there are more ways to save even more.

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