Contract Insights

CobbleStone Software, a trusted leader in contract management and eProcurement software solutions, is exhibiting at NCMA's Virtual World Congress July 27-29, 2020.  The annual event is one of the largest industry gatherings for contract management, procurement, and sourcing professionals. Learn more about World Congress and CobbleStone's virtual exhibition!

As technology evolves and organizations shift to adapt, business process changes should increase productivity rather than hamper it.  Contract managers who primarily utilize manual methods with their team may encounter difficulties in efficiently managing contracts.  Contract mismanagement can decrease productivity, hinder communication regarding task responsibility, and increase avoidable inefficiencies.  As contract administration changes for the future, organizations can attain greater control over their contract management processes by avoiding the following pitfalls of contract mismanagement.

U.S. Federal Contractors - no matter which government agency or department they are contractually involved with - can face several challenges throughout the contract lifecycle.  With many different tasks to perform, there is a lot of room for errors or missteps that may lead to contract lifecycle bottlenecks, compliance challenges, regulatory violations, wasted time, and lost revenue.  Luckily, government contract management software can help.  Here’s how.

Legal departments face ever-increasing pressure to deliver contract value and streamline legal ops with shorter contract lifecycle times and improved contract performance.  Legal departments that regularly measure the efficacy of their contracts against KPIs can proactively calibrate their legal contract management process to improve organizational impact through goal alignment and goal attainment.  Discover four crucial legal department KPIs in this article.