Contract Insights

Manual and disparate vendor management methods - such as those involving phone calls, emails, paper-based filing systems, and spreadsheets can prove challenging and error-prone.  Without the aid of a centralized, web-enabled process, vendor management workflow delays can stall productivity.  Thankfully, future-minded vendor management software can positively transform your process with end-to-end vendor oversight.  Read on to discover user-friendly, comprehensive, and unified vendor oversight from start to finish with CobbleStone Vendor Management Software.

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 undermine productivity.  Fortunately, leading-edge vendor management software can enhance your processes by expediting end-to-end vendor management workflow with optimal oversight.  Read on to learn how to supercharge your vendor management processes with CobbleStone Vendor Management Software.

The health of the contract lifecycle relies upon efficient contract task management.  Manual methods for completing contract tasks relating to pre-award and post-award contract lifecycle management can be error-prone, inefficient, and tedious - potentially decreasing your organization's ROI.  Read this blog to learn how your organization can embrace streamlined and future-minded contract task management with AI-powered contract management software.

As we step into 2021, CobbleStone Software’s Executive VP – Mark Nastasi – reexamines contract management software technology trends in the wake of the many challenges of 2020.  He provides expert insight into how organizations can move forward into more future-minded, automated, and user-friendly contract management in 2021 and beyond.  Read his considerations and suggestions below.

Manual healthcare contract management processes can increase cost and liability, leak and decrease revenue, and bring about negative patient and personnel experiences.  Outdated strategies can prevent a seamless contract lifecycle, compliance, the best use of time and resources, unified and secured documents, efficiently and accurately entered data, and the management of contracts of varying value and complexity.  Luckily, future-minded contract lifecycle management software can help. Here’s how.

Managing contracts can be challenging for legal, procurement, and contract management professionals, especially when primarily relying on outdated processes.  Managing the contract lifecycle from requests to renewals can prove challenging with spreadsheets, emails, filing cabinets, and other disparate tools and systems.  Without accountability, visibility, a clearly defined process, and actionable insights, organizations can find themselves running into compliance issues, not realizing contract value, and encountering other setbacks. 

Process, unity, and efficiency are essential for proper vendor management.  A vendor management process that relies upon disorganized documents, emails, and spreadsheets for vendor key data, contract data, certificates of insurance, and vendor performance data may not be enough.  These methods may lead to failed compliance, missed deadlines, agreement breaches, overlooked volume discounts, insufficient payments, and poor vendor selection.  These manual and time-consuming processes should be replaced in favor of an organized and streamlined one.  Thus, here are six tips for better vendor oversight with vendor management software.

Retail property management organizations often need to handle many different types of requests and contracts – including construction contracts, leases, rental agreements, retail management contracts, vendor contracts, maintenance agreements, property management contracts, and more.  With the need to handle numerous of contracts per year and support updated lease accounting standards, manual contract management processes may prove insufficient – potentially leading to contract lifecycle delays, missed key dates, lost revenue, unsatisfactory lease accounting, and wasted time.  These organizations need to leverage integrated contract management software for enhanced retail property contract management.  Here’s how.