Well, it’s time to raise a fuss
  and it’s time to raise a holler
About diminishing returns
  from the corporate dollar
I just heard from my boss
  who governs me
If I don’t save the cash
  he’s gonna fire me

Sometimes I wonder
What I’m gonna do
If there ain’t no cure
For the summertime blues

The purchaser he told me to
  go beat on the supplier
That his margins must be high
  while ours are under the wire
So I talked to the supplier
  he said that costs were elevated
He was losing all his money
  at the rates we had created

Sometimes I wonder
What I’m gonna do
If there ain’t no cure
For the summertime blues

So I found a consultant
  told her about my problems
She discovered that
  the supplier was just stalling
Material costs were falling
  and the exchange rate was fair
I had wasted all my time
  just pulling out all my hair

Next time I have a problem
  I’ll find me a solution
I’ll find a sourcing expert
  and get my retribution

No more will I wonder
  What I’m gonna do
I’ll find me a cure
  For the summertime blues

The Grunka Lunkas are still standing guard at the Coupa factory, so I have nothing significant to report yet … but I am told that the new enterprise version is almost ready and I will do everything I can to break the veil of secrecy as soon as possible.  On the bright side, I am told there are lots of cool new features to make you go “WOW”, so I’m betting it will be worth the wait.  In the meantime, if you’re daring, here’s a Coupa rap.

Apologies Jason (see “Why I’m Not a Poet”** on Spend Matters [WayBackMachine]), but I was dared^* (sort-of).
(At least it’s not another oompa-loompa chant!
And hey, as Charles said on the Purchasing Certification Blog (now the Certitrek NLPA blog), it’s guaranteed that no one will ever confuse our blogs. )

(To the rap of “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer.
Time to bring back those balloon pants!)

U-Can buy this!
U-Can buy this!
U-Can buy this!
U-Can buy this!

My, my, my, my Coupa hits you so hard
Makes you say Oh my Lord!
Thank you for blessing me
With an app that works so flawlessly
Feels good when you know you’re down
A superdope guru who slaps code down
And we’re known as such
And this is one app, uh, they can’t touch

I told you mister, they can’t touch this
Yeah, that’s how we codin’ and ya know,
U-Can buy this!
With a slick UI, U-Can buy this!
You know, let me bust the funky lyrics, U Can buy this!

Cool new app features
Built to satisfy all sorts of creatures
Knock you out of your seat
New tagging feature that can’t be beat
Grab your arm-rests, hold on
With order tracking features, your order’s never gone
Like this, Like that
Coupa’s on a mission, better fall back
Tell the world that we’re too much
And this is one app, uh, they can’t touch

Yo, I told you, they can’t touch this
Why you standing there man, ’cause U-Can buy this
Yo, sound the bell, school is in, sucker, U-Can buy this

It can link to your system
Punch-out power is what we’re giving ’em
Can’t negate
The only word is Coupa when you’re buying cor-por-ate
It’s hype and tight
With Ruby on Rails, system needs are slight
Now it’s time to learn
What it’s gonna take in the nought’s to burn
The hits legit
They can’t top us, they might as well quit

It’s all because you know
They can’t touch this … but …
U-Can buy this
Break it down!
Stop! Coupa time!

Go with the flow is what they say
Time to get with Coupa, stop livin’ in yesterday
Purchase at the speed of light
No-click Coupa buys will get your order right
This is it, it’s a winner
Get with this, make your processes thinner
Now move, click that mouse
Just takes a minute for you to not get loused

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they can’t touch this
But man, U-Can buy this
You’ll probably get hype boy,
‘Cause you know U can, U can buy this
Ring the bell, schools’ back in, buy it now!
Stop! Coupa time!

U-Can buy this
U-Can buy this
U-Can buy this
Buy it now!
Stop! Coupa time!

Every time you see it, the app just gets slicker
It’s dope on the net and service doesn’t flicker
Now why would we ever stop coding it
With others makin’ products that just don’t hit
I toured around the world from London to the Bay
It’s Coupa – Go Coupa – OS Coupa – Yo Coupa
and the rest can go and play

U-Can buy this
U-Can buy this
U-Can buy this
Yeah, U-Can buy this
I told you, U-Can buy this
Too hype, U-Can buy this
Get on outta here, U can buy this!

^* Not by Coupa, who, to the best of my knowledge, had no prior knowledge of this post.

** All posts prior to 2012 were removed in the Spend Matters site refresh in June, 2023.

To the tune of Perfect World by Huey Lewis and the News.

Ev’rybody’s looking for a perfect world
where you could save everything your heart desires.
A perfect buy will happen every time
and the perfect order will set your world on fire.

What you gonna do
when one and one makes three?
And a vision of the future is impossible to see.
Nobody’s perfect
not even a perfect fool
but if you’ll use sourcing tools reductions will find you.

Ain’t no saving in a perfect world
there ain’t no perfect world anyway.
Ain’t no saving in a perfect world
but we’ll keep on dreaming of getting to a perfect world.
Keep on dreaming of getting to a perfect world.

Everybody’s got targets
you know that it’s true.
They’ll RFX me and they’ll e-Aucton you.
Something happens to the pledges of trust
down through the years they begin to rust.

Now here we are amid the chaos and rising tides
still waiting for our agreements to save our hides.
We’ll keep on fighting as long as we can
try to remember and understand.

Ain’t no saving in a perfect world.
Ainlt no saving in a perfect world.

Keep on dreaming of getting to a perfect world.
Keep on dreaming of getting to a perfect world.
Keep on dreaming of getting to a perfect world.