Contract Insights

Did you miss any of our blog posts from February?  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 software and procurement best practices in February by reading the latest CobbleStone® content.

Contract management is a multi-faceted process.  Without oversight over each stage in the life of a contract, your organization can suffer from process bottlenecks, missed contract obligations and tasks, wasted time, lawsuits, decreased revenue, and missed opportunities - to name a few.  Fortunately, you can increase your ROI by better understanding approaching contract management.  Here are the four phases of contract management and how to tackle them with contract management software.

Contract management is a process that has been embraced by contract professionals of numerous industries worldwide.  But why do organizations need contract management?  Read on to discover six reasons why contract management is necessary - and how you can positively transform contract management with user-friendly contract management software.

Contract management professionals of all types are in the age of digital transformation.  Organizations need to correctly leverage contract management tools to adapt successfully.  As with any practice, mistakes in contract management are quite possible.  Contract management teams leveraging obsolete, manual methods are even more likely to commit CLM errors – resulting in contract lifecycle bottlenecks, missed key dates and milestones, and lost revenue.  Mistakes in contract management must be avoided.  Read this blog to discover six common mistakes in contract management – and how they can be evaded with the help of contract management software.

Professionals engaging in the contract management process can find themselves facing a myriad of challenges.  Many of these challenges are born from a decentralized strategy and a lack of automated contract lifecycle management tools.  Read this blog to discover five common contract management challenges and five leading solutions to those problems.

Gathering required signatures for contracts can be a challenging task, especially when working with multiple signatories in various locations.  Considering that signatures finalize contracts and propel their execution, this highly anticipated step can be delayed with manual wet signatures that can waste time and paper-based resources - including postage and office supplies.  Moreover, specific signatures can require notarization, which can further delay the signing process.  Read on to learn how contract management software can make online contract signing quick and easy.

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!

CobbleStone Software’s leading-edge contract management software solution - CobbleStone Contract Insight® - allows users to centralize and navigate the contract lifecycle in one simple, configurable system.  The final stage of contract lifecycle management - contract signatures - can be streamlined with the use of eSignatures.  IntelliSign® - CobbleStone Software's proprietary electronic signature software tool -  significantly expedites and simplifies signing, tracks each step in the process, and can cut send-to-sign time by up to twenty percent.  Users can be notified when a contract is ready for signing through automated workflows and real-time status updates.  A seamless eSignature integration with Adobe Sign makes the process even easier!  Here's how.