NTT DATA-WITH Corporation (Headquarters: Koto-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yasuyuki Wada; hereinafter "NTT DATA-WITH") and Coupa K.K. (Japan Branch: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Koichiro Sorimachi; hereinafter "Coupa") have signed a partnership agreement aimed at improving the productivity of procurement and purchasing departments and accelerating business transformation. The two companies will combine Coupa's cutting-edge autonomous spend management platform, which optimizes corporate spending with the power of AI, with NTT DATA-WITH's business reform support (IT/BPO) to provide comprehensive services that support everything from visualizing procurement and purchasing operations to ensuring their adoption. [Background] In recent years, against the backdrop of rapid changes in the business environment surrounding companies and the increasing severity of labor shortages, procurement and purchasing departments are required not only to reduce costs but also to advance their overall business processes and contribute to management through data utilization. However, the reality is that purchasing operations in many companies are often individualized and fragmented. Furthermore, many companies are currently struggling with the introduction of new AI technologies and securing the implementation and ROI associated with them, resulting in complex system integrations that become a burden on operations, further complicating the situation. Against this backdrop, simply implementing a system often does not yield sufficient results. NTT DATA-WITH has supported business reforms and DX promotion utilizing IT and BPO (Note 1) in back-office operations, including procurement. Coupa, with over 3,200 global customers and a track record of $10 trillion in spend data, offers a cutting-edge autonomous spend management platform that optimizes corporate spending with AI. It globally achieves automation of the entire process from procurement to payment and optimization of spending. By combin