Coupa’s R40 Release Notes: What’s New?

The tentative Coupa R40 Release date is set for September 2024. If you are looking for Coupa R40 release notes, this blog is for you. Opkey is an official test automation partner for Coupa and uniquely equipped to provide expert guidance on all things Coupa testing.  

This blog highlights major changes that will come with Coupa R40 release, while also offering testing guidance that will help you sail through the transition.

Coupa R40 September 2024 Release: Module-wise Updates

Procure

• Procurement
  
  • The new update has made it easier to find Amazon items, among items from all other suppliers, in Open Buy searches.
  • Users can now easily find multifaceted items when searching in any language that Coupa supports.
  • When creating or viewing a requisition, a new floating action bar provides quick access to commonly used buttons.

Learn more: Advisory Document for Coupa R39, May 2024 Release

• Inventory
  
  • The new enhancement to Coupa's bulk receiving feature includes the summary of the items' value, simplifying ERP comparisons.
  • To improve operations efficiency, users can now add a single receipt date on inventory items and services leveraging Coupa's bulk receiving feature.
  • The new ASN data table enhances user experience with improved functionality and a modern look.

• Supply Chain Collaboration
  
  • Categorize purchase order changes into Material and Non-Material based on their specific business requirements.
  • Generate a summary for confirmation emails, and process PDF attachments. Monitor orders and requests for confirmation at a single place. Buyers can review confirmations and approve or reject supplier requests.

Invoice

• New invoice presentation template support for Malaysia (CaaS).

• Improved high visibility invoice notifications make approval details easier to find and enhance the customer experience with new templates.

Travel & Expense

• New modern and minimalist presentation of Coupa Expenses email notifications for expenses approval, expense report accounting review, and expense report approved for payment.

• Calculate per diem exclusions in percentage as well as monetary values.

Pay

• Payments
  
  • AI suggestions help you shift more spending to virtual cards, for greater rebates with less manual analysis and supplier outreach.
  • The convenience of managing your virtual cards on the Coupa app now includes requesting PO-backed cards.  

• Treasury
  
  • Configure and add widgets to the enhanced Dashboard (formerly Cash Management Dashboard).
  • With this release, Coupa has further updated the roles and permissions concept introduced in R39.
  • Additional outbound API and flat file integrations, including for more Financial Instruments in Coupa Treasury have been added.
  • Coupa Treasury finalizes 2024 EMIR Refit upgrades ahead of the UK Refit in September.

Supply Chain

• Allows users to copy large databases.

• Allows users to copy and paste values in grids; new "Clear All Filters" ability.

• The Data Visualizations load script now includes Transportation Optimization.

• Allows column filtering and sorting on the landing page.  

Contract Management

• Duplicate existing contracts and make amendments to the contracts table, saving time and ensuring consistency in contract creation and updating.

• The Coupa Contract Collaboration panel in the Agreement tab has been redesigned to improve the user experience and optimize for users to collaborate on contracts.

Since it is beyond the scope of this blog to cover everything related to Coupa R40 release notes in this blog, we recommend you read our comprehensive advisory here.

Learn more: Coupa Release Preparation Timeline and Testing Guide

Why Is It Critical to Test Coupa Updates?

Coupa releases three updates per year that are mandatory for all customers. Each update needs to be thoroughly tested because of the following reasons.

• Ensuring Compatibility: Coupa R40 Updates may introduce changes that can affect integrations with other systems, such as ERP, procurement, and payment systems. Coupa update testing ensures that these integrations continue to function correctly.

• Identifying Bugs: Like any software, Coupa updates can introduce new bugs. Testing helps identify and fix these issues before they impact end users.

• Validating New Features: Coupa updates bring new features and enhancements. Testing ensures that these new functionalities work as intended and meet user requirements.

• Security Role Validation: Updates might address security vulnerabilities or impact existing security roles and privileges. Testing ensures that your Coupa system is protected against threats and complies with security standards.

• User Experience: Updates can change the user interface or user workflows. Testing helps ensure that these changes enhance the user experience without causing confusion or usability issues.

Opkey for Coupa Test Automation

Opkey is the industry's leading No-Code test automation platform and an official Coupa partner. Coupa customers across industries are saving time, money, and effort on each release with Opkey's AI-enabled features. Here's how:

• AI-enabled Test Management: Wilfred, Opkey's Chatbot, is powered by Opkey’s ERP language model to simplify test creation for both technical and non-technical folks. Opkey's Natural Language Processing chatbot Wilfred can break down bottlenecks and limitations between teams, allowing you to save time and money on labor costs while speeding up Coupa release testing overall. Wilfred can also help with a wide variety of tasks and project areas, including planning, support tickets, and much more.

• AI-powered Impact Analysis: During Coupa releases, Opkey’s AI powered impact analysis engine takes all the guesswork out of determining what needs to be tested. Opkey identifies changes in your transactions, configurations, and custom screens to highlight the impacted tests due to those changes. Instead of executing all the test cases, you only need to test those that are highly risky and their dependent components. Thus, eliminating hours of effort and struggle.

• AI-powered Self-Healing: Coupa is a highly dynamic application and maintaining test scripts can be a challenge. Opkey's AI-powered Self-Healing feature detects and automatically resolves issues that arise due to updates. The time and resources required for script maintenance are drastically reduced and AI’s ability to continuously learn and adapt to changes ensures that your automated test suite remains functional.

• End-to-end Coverage: Opkey tests across entire enterprise application landscapes, from front-end such as web and mobile to core, back-end systems such as custom or databases, ERP and CRM systems. It supports 12+ ERPs including Coupa, Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud, Workday, Dynamics 365, and Salesforce. As a result, you can eliminate critical gaps in your end-to-end journey.