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8 must-focus areas that drive contract management success
Mastering contract management practices can empower contract managers, procurement professionals and legal teams to collaborate and integrate their processes more efficiently and effectively. An efficient contract management system leads to increased contract effectiveness, which can be a source of efficient workflow, decreased risk exposure, improved visibility, accountability, reputation management and return on investment.
Leading-edge contract lifecycle management software that is not merely a repository system can drive contract value and streamline contract workflow. Transparency and insights from contract metrics, a secure contract repository, seamless collaboration, a complete audit trail, real-time visibility and automated contract creation all work together so contract managers can transform contracts from static documents into dynamic building blocks. Contract managers who commit to this form of contract lifecycle management can better streamline their processes and help their organizations maximize their contracts’ value, which can inevitably improve comprehensive, long-term and holistic success.
Contract managers and their organizations can master contract management by employing industry-leading best practices in generating contracts, writing documents with contract clauses, tracking contracts, approving contracts, signing contracts, increasing contract management ROI, managing contract renewals, and storing contracts. Implementing best practices in each stage of the contract lifecycle enables contract managers and their organizations to maximize contract value and streamline workflow.