[Coupa] Artha, a transportation expense importer provided by Bemap, starts collaboration with Coupa’s Total Spend Management platform *Coupa*
Press release: September 9, 2024
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Artha, a transportation expense importer provided by Bemap, starts collaboration with Coupa’s Total Spend Management platform
*Transportation expense settlement using transit manager is now seamlessly available on the business system provided by Coupa* B-Map Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Fuminori Sugino, hereinafter B-Map) has started providing the “Transportation Expenses Importer Artha” service. Ward, Representative Director and President: Koseki
Total Spend, provided by Kishi (hereinafter referred to as Coupa), provides unified management of corporate activity expenditures from procurement and purchasing to miscellaneous expenses for companies. We would like to inform you that we have started collaboration with the Management platform.
As a result, for companies that have already introduced the Coupa platform, JR East Japan Kikaku Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Ryoji Akaishi, hereinafter referred to as “JEKI”) provides transportation expense settlement system
“Transit”.
It is now possible to use “Transit Manager” to provide an option that allows you to directly read and pay your transportation expenses from your transportation IC card or smartphone.
■What can be achieved by introducing Artha
For companies using Coupa, transit
By applying for Manager, Artha and linking with Coupa, you can track the usage history of your transportation IC card.
Just by registering as a manager, you can create accurate expense statements on the Coupa platform.
This allows you to reduce labor costs related to expense applications.
By providing Artha, Bmap will help improve the convenience and efficiency of transportation expense settlement for Japanese companies and Japanese subsidiaries of overseas companies that use the Coupa platform.
For more information on the collaboration between Artha and Coupa, please see the link below.
* Coupa App Marketplace “Artha” introduction page*
https://marketplace.coupa.com/en-US/apps/446758/artha-transportation-ic-card-importer-for-coupa-expense
* ■Comment from Fuminori Sugino, President and Representative Director of BMAP Co., Ltd.*
We are pleased to announce the collaboration between Coupa’s platform, which is currently used by 3,000 companies in 180 countries around the world, and Artha, our transportation expense importer.
This time, Artha, which we developed, will be used in the Coupa App. By joining the Marketplace, we are now able to support the many companies using Coupa’s platform in transforming their transportation expense settlement and management operations. This will enable customers to achieve cost reductions through streamlined
transportation expense settlement operations and operational improvements. We hope that many companies will use it.
* ■Comment from Takashi Koseki, President and Representative Director of Coupa Co., Ltd.*
We are pleased to be able to contribute to the reduction and efficiency of expense settlement operations for customers using Coupa in Japan through the collaboration between Artha and Coupa. We will continue to help more companies increase their profits through improved convenience, expense management, controls, and improvements.
* ■What is transportation expense importer Artha?*
This is a service that seamlessly provides historical data on expenses such as transportation expenses to the expense settlement and workflow systems that each company has installed. For each company, it will be possible to add an expense settlement function without changing the user interface of the installed system. Additionally, Artha will also consider linking with new ticket systems that are becoming popular at railway companies around the world, such as credit card touch payments and QR code ticketing.
*Please refer to the link below for an overview of Artha.
https://www.artha-cloud.net/
* ■About Coupa*
Coupa provides AI powered by community data and an industry-leading total spend management platform to help businesses of all sizes run their businesses by enabling them to grow their profits.
Multiplier
Company(TM). Coupa’s AI is powered by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data from a global network of more than 10 million buyers and suppliers. We provide accurate forecasts and
recommendations to help you make smart, valuable decisions to increase your profits. For details
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