procurement - Calabash

Split scene: a Nigerian compliance portal dashboard on one side, an unresolved AP exception queue on the other — same invoice, two fates

treasury

Nigeria's FIRS mandate puts every invoice in structured XML. It does not touch the queue.

FIRS went live for large taxpayers in August 2025. Only 1 in 5 had onboarded by day 15. The ones who think compliance is the finish line are about to discover that structured invoices still land in manual queues when your supplier master data is dirty.

Paper invoices with handwritten bank details beside a verified digital supplier record, Lagos skyline at dusk.

treasury

Coupa Navi promises 100% faster supplier discovery. FIRS and KRA are already doing the foundation work in Africa.

Coupa Navi promises 100% faster supplier discovery. In Nigeria and Kenya, the government is already doing the foundation work: forcing verified supplier records into existence through e-invoicing mandates. Whether that compounds into a real AP record is the only architecture decision that matters.

Corporate office in Lagos with a procurement workflow UI overlaid on glass, Ariba supplier network data in background.

treasury

Sasol is about to migrate twice while 85% of its supplier base cannot get on the network at all

Next-gen SAP Ariba is live and African enterprise procurement leads did not choose the timing. The rebuild coincides with ECC end-of-maintenance and lands on top of a supplier base that is 85-90% informal. Two migrations, one budget cycle, zero slack.