Dean Bain, SVP Supply Chain,
Coupa
“ With AI-driven insights,” Dean adds“ leaders can test scenarios, optimise trade-offs and make smarter decisions in real time. This allows companies to turn uncertainty into advantage; such as by reallocating spend, strengthening supplier relationships or responding faster than other companies when conditions change.”
Coupa recently released Navi, a generative AI agent designed to move beyond the typical chatbot hype and address the complex mathematical optimisations that supply chain leaders genuinely care about. The Navi suite applies advanced mathematical reasoning and scenario analysis to streamline the creation of digital twins and complex model evaluations for practitioners who aren’ t optimisation specialists.
“ Navi is our ever expanding family of AI agents embedded directly into Coupa’ s platform and powered by Coupa’ s global community spend data providing agentic AI capabilities. As such it understands real business context,” Dean explains.
“ Our new Network Modelling Agent combines generative AI with advanced modelling and optimisation logic. It can evaluate scenarios, test alternatives and help leaders make mathematically sound decisions around sourcing, risk mitigation and network performance.“ Put simply, Navi is helping orchestrate decisions and actions across the entire Coupa ecosystem.
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