Contract Insights

Managing government contracts with disparate processes such as shared drives, email, disorganized documents, and disorderly spreadsheets can prove challenging and leave your organization vulnerable to undue risk.  Public contract managers implementing such disparate contract management methods can transform their processes and maximize their budget by fiscal year-end by investing in a robust contract management software system that can seamlessly evolve with their organizations’ needs.  City, state, and federal contract management professionals can streamline their processes with the help of an end-to-end government contract management software suite that centralizes government contract administration services from requests to renewals.  Read on to learn how leveraging a centralized government contract management system with integrated eSourcing and eProcurement features can empower government contract management professionals to successfully administrate the many moving parts of their contracting processes.

Managing vendors with manual and disparate processes such as spreadsheets, phone calls, emails, and paper-based filing systems can prove challenging.  Without a centralized electronic process, vendor management workflow bottlenecks can significantly decrease your organization’s profitability.  Fortunately, leading-edge vendor management software can help increase your vendor profitability by leveraging cost-saving vendor management best practices.  Read on to discover three vendor management best practices you can implement immediately to help increase your organization’s ROI.

Reviewing contract risk can be time-consuming, challenging, and stressful.  Manually assessing risk factors can cost an organization extra time and money while increasing the risk of inadvertent human oversights.  While you can do your best to carefully track risk factors, including negligent clause language, it can prove challenging when dealing with multiple stakeholders and pressing deadlines.  Read on to learn how three contract risk management tools proffered by contract management software can help protect your organization from the risks of poor contract management and, in some cases, your job.

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