Contract Insights

Did you miss any of our blog posts from June?  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 best practices by reading CobbleStone’s latest content. 

Nursing home networks face a unique set of challenges around healthcare contract management.  Since they are subject to strict laws and regulations, nursing homes need to be vigilant when establishing and maintaining contracts - as to avoid litigation costs, witness depositions, and the frantic retrieval of mismanaged contracts.  With disorganized or manual processes, nursing homes increase the risk of lawsuits, misplaced documents, data entry errors, contract lifecycle bottlenecks, damaged reputation, wasted time, and revenue loss.  Luckily, contract management software can help nursing home networks establish a seamless contract lifecycle, remain compliant, reduce wasted time, unify and secure documents, efficiently and accurately enter data, and manage contracts with varying complexity and volume.  Here’s how.

Organizations should be equipped with contract management software that is easy-to-use, reasonably priced, and whose features are aligned to their needs.  When these criteria are not being met, organizations risk encountering issues such as contract lifecycle bottlenecks, wasted time, increased costs, and lost revenue.  These are issues that require making a switch to a better solution.  With that said, here are three things to consider when making the switch to a leading contract lifecycle management software platform.

Establishing a bid process with which you can regularly receive optimal bid responses may seem like a daunting task.  However, it is quite achievable with the right steps and tools.  There are numerous simple ways to leverage scalable, cloud-based source-to-contract management software for streamlined RFP, RFI, and RFQ management, and better bid responses.  Here are six ways to get more quality bid responses from vendors.

Government supply chain management is a multi-faceted, involved process – including the handling of RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs.  Supply chain RFx management responsibilities may include accumulating vendor proposals, collecting quotes to compare vendors and contractors, establishing a database of vendors and contractors, signing off on approvals before selecting them, managing contracts, and much more.  Handling these different tasks with separate manual processes can make for a disorganized approach that can potentially lead to lost opportunities, supply chain lifecycle bottlenecks, improper vendor and contractor selection, wasted time, and revenue loss.  Luckily, integrated contract management software solutions can help.  Here are three ways to improve government supply chain RFPs.

There is a significant need for automation in contract management software processes.  When collaborating within the contract management community, we often find that most organizations do not currently leverage meaningful automation for better contract management.  Yet, most organizations have developed or plan to develop strategies to implement contract automation.  It is clear to see that the industry is evolving in favor of contract automation.  Don't get left behind. Get ahead with robust and user-friendly contract management software.  Here's how.

As the end of the traditional local government fiscal year draws near, city, state, and other public agencies must make sure that they are leveraging their budgets by investing in software tools for streamlined, robust, and transparent contract management, purchasing, and sourcing for current and future needs.  Here are five tools that can be used for simple, user-friendly, and powerfully integrated government contract management, procurement, and sourcing processes.

CobbleStone Software’s latest release, Contract Insight® Enterprise Version 17.6.0, has arrived with many new features and enhancements to improve your eSourcing and contract management software platform!