Contract Insights

Managing and overseeing contract risk factors can be difficult, stressful, and time-consuming.  Manual contract risk assessment can cost organizations money and time and lead to costly and potentially disastrous instances of contract mismanagement.  Organizations do their best to diligently track contract risk factors, including potentially negligent clause language.  However, contract risk management can prove overwhelming when dealing with multiple deadlines and stakeholders.  But all is not lost; there is a solution: contract management software.  Read on to learn how to use a contract management risk and opportunity assessment tool to decrease risk and increase your bottom line.

Procurement departments can encounter detrimental issues without the proper procure to pay software solutions.  Improper procurement planning can bring about unnecessary risk, dark purchasing, deleterious data inaccuracies, harmful supplier issues, and a procurement cycle that is rife with bottlenecks.  Procurement teams should not have to be bogged down by wasted time, missed opportunities, and misallocated procurement resources due to disorganized and lackluster procurement planning and execution.  They can instead streamline and simplify the procurement process with procurement software as a service integrated with contract management software.  Here's how to overcome procurement challenges by reaping the benefits of leading procurement software.

2021 has arrived, and with it comes new innovations to your contract management software processes.  Keeping this in mind, we have outlined six critical contract management tools that your organization should equip itself with to stay ahead of future-minded contract management best practices in 2021 and beyond.

In order to get started with improving contract lifecycle management, there first needs to be an understanding of what exactly the contract lifecycle is - as well as how it progresses.  To that end, we have provided an illustration that shows the stages in the life of a contract - as well as descriptions that give more insight into how each stage involves and can be managed with contract management software!

Are you looking to get started with a contract management software solution, but are not necessarily sure where to start?  Maybe your organization has yet to come to a consensus on which full-bodied contract lifecycle management software features are needed for your unique process.  Do you want a web-based contract software solution but prefer to host the data on your organization's server?  Luckily, your team does not need to immerse itself in a full, enterprise contract lifecycle management software system right off the bat.  Rather, you can start with basic contract management and contract tracking tools without being overwhelmed, and subsequently add the features and functionalities that your organization needs at the time that is best for your organization.  To that end, your team can get started with CobbleStone Contract Insight® WorkGroup Edition to maximize the features you need today!

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!

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.

2021 has already brought many enhancements and innovations to contract management automation - and contract management technology will not stop enhancing contract management processes any time soon.  Your organization could be missing out on user-friendly and future-minded contract management system tools.  As such, here is a list of four must-have contract management software features for a streamlined, simplified, cost-effective, and configurable process for increased ROI.