Every company, whether small or large, needs to manage contracts. How this management is performed is essential for success or business reputation issues in the market they operate.
What is more, contract management shall monitor compliance with agreements executed with customers and suppliers, from negotiation to established item closure. Thus, this activity is deeply strategic to business.
Would you like to know some benefits of properly executed contract management? We will show you a few insights!
Saving
Monitoring every contract life cycle stage of a company is a time-consuming task for managers and their teams. As all information is focused on a single contract management module within SAP, for instance, it is possible that every stakeholder accesses and follows document stages easily.
Thus, not only are we not talking about time-saving only, as such task automation speeds up task control within each stage, but also financial saving, as, for instance, fines and penalties related to delays or non-complied clauses will be prevented.
Productivity
Whenever monitoring contract stages is a task that engages people from more than one area of the company, processes and decision-making related to document can be sped up as contract management is automated, and thus, the organization productivity as whole is improved.
One of the advantages, for instance, is that everyone engaged with a specific document will be notified whenever there are any changes, addenda or terms, enabling that everyone is aware.
It is a way of providing a broader business view and of what has to be done concerning contract compliance, focused on company success. More organization and clarity means less time spent, understanding what has to be done and more time to perform tasks, increasing operation productivity.
Information security
One of the main goals of a contract is supporting legally the relevant parties concerning items agreed. Thus, it is important to care for information security.
Performing fine contract management is following each execution step and registering each change in transparent and accessible way to every stakeholder, developing history to settle divergences, so that stakeholder interests are complied with.
As such task is automated, apart from keeping such history and enabling status view of every contract party, it is also possible to limit access to authorized people – and only the will have contact with information that is often confidential.
Contract management performance
As monitoring is automated through a contract management module, companies save time and money, protect strategic information and enable that their employees focus on more strategic actions, generating even more value to business.
If you want to know these and other ContractPlus features, talk to an Inventer to understand how to integrate this native module to SAP Business One!
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