Contract Insights

Did you miss any of our blog posts from August?  Don’t worry; we have outlined each of them for you.  Stay up-to-date with industry topics, real-world case studies, and contract management and procurement best practices by reading CobbleStone’s latest content. 

Systematically tracking and reporting contract financials is a crucial strategy for healthy contract lifecycle management.  Organizations must have a contract management software platform that permits them to keep track of transactions, run reports on key financials data, establish alerts for thresholds, and perform financial statistics analytics for contracts.  This blog will demonstrate how leading source-to-contract management software can help organizations to manage contract financials carefully and proactively in one centralized solution to maximize spend and increase ROI.

Process, unity, and efficiency are essential for proper vendor management.  A vendor management process that relies upon disorganized documents, emails, and spreadsheets for vendor key data, contract data, certificates of insurance, and vendor performance data may not be enough.  These methods may lead to failed compliance, missed deadlines, agreement breaches, overlooked volume discounts, insufficient payments, and poor vendor selection.  These manual and time-consuming processes should be replaced in favor of an organized and streamlined one.  Thus, here are six tips for better vendor oversight with vendor management software.

NIGP (The Institute for Public Procurement) will be hosting its annual forum virtually August 24th – 28th, 2020.  CobbleStone will be exhibiting its leading-edge government contract management, sourcing, bid management, and procurement software in NIGP’s virtual exhibit hall.  CobbleStone’s software experts will answer questions from attendees and demonstrate how contract management software can help solve government purchasing challenges.  NIGP’s celebratory 75th Annual Forum will feature procurement-focused sessions, a virtual exhibit hall, breakout sessions, networking opportunities, inspirational keynote speakers, a virtual happy hour, and other engagements.