Contract Approval Process: Mastering Contract Management Series

    By Maria Votlucka on 05/25/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 4 min read

    The contract approval process can prove challenging for many contract management and contract administration professionals.  Without the proper contract lifecycle management tools in place, bottlenecks and human error can lead to longer contract lifecycle times. Delayed contract approvals may fail to meet business rules, business processes, and business and regulatory compliance standards - potentially leading to missed opportunities for time-sensitive pricing options and special terms.  The challenges and problems of inefficient contract administration are apparent, but what are the root causes of the issues with contract approvals?

    Continue Reading

    CobbleStone Contract Insight® 17.9.0: CLM Tools of Tomorrow - Today!

    By Sean Heck on 05/24/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 6 min read

    CobbleStone® Software's latest release – CobbleStone Contract Insight® Enterprise Version 17.9.0 – is here, providing visionary CLM features and feature enhancements to bring your contract management software suite even further into the future!

    Continue Reading

    3 Vendor Management Best Practices for Cutting Costs Right Now

    By Joshua Hansen on 05/19/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 6 min read

    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.

    Continue Reading

    3 Contract Risk Management Tools To Protect Your Organization

    By Joshua Hansen on 05/12/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 5 min read

    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.

    Continue Reading

    Help at Your Fingertips With the CobbleStone Contract Insight® Wiki

    By Adam Widmeier on 05/7/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 3 min read

    CobbleStone Contract Insight® users can leverage the CobbleStone Contract Insight wiki/user manual to promote the best possible utilization of their system.  Whether you are a CobbleStone user or a potential user, you can read this article - written by CobbleStone Software Documentation & Training Specialist Adam Widmeier - to learn how to maximize the many contract management software features available with CobbleStone Contract Insight.

    Continue Reading

    Procure To Pay Software - How To Select the Right Solution

    By Sean Heck on 05/5/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 5 min read

    Procurement departments can run into serious issues without the proper procure-to-pay tools.  Lackluster procurement strategies can bring unnecessary risk, dark purchasing, detrimental data inaccuracies, harmful supplier issues, and a more drawn-out procure to pay cycle.  Procurement teams no longer need to be bogged down by wasted time, overlooked opportunities, and poorly allocated resources due to decentralized and ineffective procurement planning and execution.  Rather, they can maximize a future-minded procure to pay process flow with procure to pay software.  Here's how procurement professionals can select the right solution for their needs.

    Continue Reading

    CobbleStone Software Blog Recap for April 2021

    By Joshua Hansen on 05/4/21

    reading-minutes-icon-one-color 6 min read

    Did you miss any of our blog posts from April?  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.

    Continue Reading
    Website Graphics_Collage for Website Module copy
    RESERVE MY SEAT
    REGISTER TODAY

    Lists by Topic

    see all

    Tag Cloud

    Posts by Topic

    see all