A vendor agreement - an indispensable business contract - outlines the terms of the exchange of goods or services between a business and third-party vendors. This written agreement not only provides clarity of terms and conditions, but also protects both parties' interests. Here are the five essential elements every comprehensive vendor agreement should include for healthy vendor contract management, successful operations, streamlined contract lifecycle management, and increased ROI.
Vendor Agreements: The 5 Essential Elements They Should Have
By Sean Heck on 08/1/24
Healthy Vendor Contract Management - 4 Simple Steps
By Sean Heck on 10/20/22
We would venture to say that all businesses from various industries in the public and private sectors need vendors. Vendor relationships help power business processes. Vendors can provide supplies, services, maintenance, and raw materials for generating products. As such, it is important that organizations maintain business relationships with third-party vendors.
Unfortunately – as is the case with most things – there is a right and a wrong way to go about vendor management.
Contract and procurement teams need to sidestep spend leakage, detrimental terms, and soured vendor relationships. On the other hand, proper vendor contract management can set the stage for positive growth and opportunity realization. Here’s how.
CobbleStone Contract Insight® 17.11.0: Master New Tools to Enhance CLM
By Sean Heck on 03/22/22
CobbleStone Software's latest version – CobbleStone Contract Insight® Enterprise 17.11.0 – has come, introducing next-level CLM features and enhancements for you to master to bring your contract management software platform to the next level!
What Is Vendor Management Software?
By Sean Heck on 03/4/22
Vendor management efficiency is critical for organizations to reap the highest ROI from vendor relations. Unfortunately, many organizations still rely on vendor management methods that depend on costly pay-per-solicitations, unclear selection of the best possible vendors, tracking vendor insurance certificates manually, decentralized vendor management and contract management processes, and other deleterious procedures. Luckily, you can automate these processes and more with vendor management software. But what exactly is vendor management software? Let's improve your processes with integrated vendor management and contract management software.