Contract Insights

Procurement departments can encounter procurement workflow inefficiencies without the proper procure-to-pay tools – especially when implementing inefficient and disjointed contract management processes throughout parts of the procurement process.  You can avoid risk, unreasonable vendor pricing, and vendor non-compliance by leveraging contract management processes in procurement that centralize processes, technology, and people.  Read on to discover how you can implement effective contract management in procurement that results in maximized collaboration of various roles and responsibilities, managing cost effectively, and more fruitful business relationships.

Managing contracts from requests to renewals can prove difficult when relying on primarily manual processes. Your organization could be sacrificing accountability, visibility, a clearly defined strategy, and actionable insights. As such, you can find yourself running into compliance issues, minimizing contract value, and encountering other setbacks. 

But it does not have to be this way. Modern advances in contract management technology can allow your organization to scale with success.

Read on to learn how to manage contracts effectively and how leading contract management software can support each of the contract management best practices below for efficient contracting processes.

Collecting, analyzing, and tracking contract management data with manual and disparate processes throughout the contract lifecycle can prove challenging. You can waste time and energy without readily accessible contract management reports for the following.

• Contract Financials
• Contract Terms
• Workflows
• Budgets
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Vendors
• Contract Compliance Data
• & Other Essential Contract Data

Fortunately, leading contract management software can provide you with contract reports for optimizing contract performance management oversight.

Do you have many contracts to extract data from and organize within a centralized, web-enabled contract management software suite?  Extracting contract data with a manual process - especially from hundreds or thousands of legacy contracts - can seem overwhelming and time-consuming. However, it doesn’t have to be.  Read on to learn how CobbleStone's automated contract data extraction can help streamline your contract data extraction process in three easy steps.