Monday, June 3, 2013

Contractroom Adds Intelligence to Enterprise Negotiation & Contract Management



Essentially, a contract is as an agreement between two or more parties agreeing to do business together. Contract management refers to the creation and maintenance of these agreements. Also, managing these contracts often involves negotiating with the client and various partners.

Today's complex transaction relationships involve multiple processes, businesses and clients. In addition, contracts are governed by various terms, such as price, quality, shipment, payment, discounts, rebate policies, etc. This management process, especially if there are thousands of contracts that change frequently, requires a serious commitment of time and resources.

As a result, many organizations have either employed an in-house contract manager or have hired a third-party business consultant for efficient enterprise negotiation and contract management. However, companies can save money by using new developments in technology in the form of contract management software.

Recently, several contract management and enterprise negotiation solutions have become available. This software makes the enterprise negotiation and contract management process easier, more efficient and more productive. One such solution is the ContractRoom Contract Management Software.

ContractRoom provides a single digital platform for all of the activities in contracting. With ContractRoom, contract management does not end at signing. Since the system is cloud-based, users can access it from anywhere and at anytime. Once the contract documents are signed and stored in the cloud, they can be traced back and accessed for reviews, amendments, approvals, data procurement and much more.

ContractRoom’s contract management and enterprise negotiation solution organizes the entire contract management process. The contract manager or negotiation leader is informed about the exact status of an agreement from the software’s history function, or through reminders that include e-mail alerts, system pop-ups and messages.

ContractRoom makes enterprise negotiation and contract management effective, productive and bottom-line driven.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

ContractRoom Helps to Enhance Productivity with Effective Contract Management


  I don’t know of anyone who says they enjoy contract management. It takes so much time, there are so many mistakes and so much back and forth. It’s a waste of time!!

After managing several contracts I can say this from my own experience!!!

Only a lead knows about the trouble involved in managing a contract when it has to be approved by different employees of the organization. Moreover, it takes a lot of time when all of them have to provide input and correct the agreement before it can be sent to the client. Many times this simple process of contract management workflow for assembling the contract takes 3-4 weeks.

Recently, we came across a software application known as an enterprise negotiation solution. These applications claim to help enterprise negotiation and contract management.

Well, I reviewed a number of contract management software solutions and decided on the one which is best suited to our business. Currently we are using the ContractRoom as our contract management and enterprise negotiation solution.

Typically, I manually keep track of who I have sent the document to, who is reviewing the contract or who has responded and who hasn't. The ContractRoom solution monitors the whole contract management workflow and notifies me as soon as everyone agrees on the contract terms and language. Then as a designated editor, make the approved changes and all participants visit the Contract Room for final approval.

The best thing about the ContractRoom enterprise negotiation and contract management software is that it is cloud based. Therefore, rather than sending multiple emails, text messages and having virtual and face-to-face meetings to get the document reviewed by everyone, ContractRoom provides a common platform where everybody can review, approve and comment on the agreement. So, the physical location of users is never an an issue, which saves a lot of precious time and increases productivity.

I would recommend the ContractRoom enterprise negotiation solution to every business owner who wants to ‘shorten the time to close a deal’, ‘reduce transaction waste’ and ‘improve control over business’!

Well, who wouldn’t want to!!!