Connecting to Coupa

Coupa is a cloud based Business Spend Management platform that allows you to manage and analyze business spend across Procurement, Supply Chain & Finance.

To use external applications with IBM watsonx Orchestrate, you must establish a connection that enables communication between them. See Managing connections for more details.

Connecting to Coupa using the watsonx Orchestrate user interface

To connect watsonx Orchestrate to Coupa:

  1. Open the main menu and select Manage > Connections.

  2. Search for Coupa.

  3. Find the connection ID with the following structure: coupa_key_value_ibm_184bdbd3.

  4. For the matched connection ID, click edit Edit icon.

  5. Choose the environment to create the connection: draft or live.

  6. Select the Authentication Type as Key Value Pair.

  7. Provide the following Keys, click Add new field to add additional key-value pairs:

    • base_url
    • token_url
    • client_id
    • client_secret

    For all Value fields insert the value corresponding to the key. To get these values, see the Get Started with the API.

  8. Select the credential type.

  9. Click Save.

Note: The icon A green check icon appears. indicates that the connection was successfully established.