Procurement holds the earliest, most honest record of economic activity that exists. The purchase order is where intent becomes a dollar-denominated, vendor-specified commitment weeks before production and quarters before it surfaces in GDP. Most procurement teams use that record for one thing: last quarter's internal scorecard. But the same data, when viewed across Coupa's community, creates a new viewpoint. Turned outward, it's a leading read on the economy itself. Turned inward, it pinpoints the operational levers that actually move your P&L. This creates a new opportunity for procurement to move beyond simple cost control, and into the data-backed intelligence center of the enterprise.

Drawing on the Coupa Business Spend Index and the 2026 Spend Management Benchmark Report, each built from millions of real monthly transactions, this session shows what cross-firm platform-native spend data reveals about the economy and your success. We observe that aggregate community spend leads the ISM PMI by one to three months and reads on day one where GDP is still being revised a year later. And across 3,000+ organizations, the data show how downstream value creation actually works in procurement.

Coupa will break down:

• What the economy is telling procurement right now: the live sector signals in AI, manufacturing, and beyond
• The mechanisms behind how procurement KPIs move together, and a single connection that genuinely drives the rest
• The single highest-leverage intervention for turning spend strategy into measurable P&L impact
• How to move procurement from a quarterly scorecard to a forward-looking intelligence function