Contract Management for Small Companies is …

James Meads isn’t saying it in this LinkedIn post, but he’s hit the nail on the head with an old-school hammer. (Unlike the shiny new hammer, the old school hammer actually works.) For most small enterprises, they don’t need full contract lifecycle management, they need document centralization and visibility and time-based reminders. That’s it! This […]

Stop Wasting Your Time With Contract Management

The Mandarin (Yes, The Mandarin) recently posted a great article on why you should stop wasting your time with contract management As the author clearly states, every department, state and federal, in which I have worked has a set of policies and directives on contracting and contract management. Almost every contract has a contract management […]

Source-to-Pay+ is Extensive (P25) … And Contract Management Very Extensive … So Here Are 80 Contract Management Companies to Check Out!

And now the post you’ve all been waiting for! A partial, starting, list of 80 contract management companies that may (or may not) meet some, or many, of the core baseline capabilities we outlined in the last three parts of this series (Part 22, Part 23, and Part 24) as we discussed the Negotiation, Analysis, […]

Source-to-Pay+ is Extensive (P21) … And We Have a Long Way To Go! Next Up: Contract Management

When we started in Part 1, we noted that even though all core sourcing and procurement technologies have been available for twenty (20) years (although it is debatable just how good the initial versions of many of these applications were) … the majority of organizations still do not have what any modern analyst would consider […]

Agiloft — For those with Lofty Ambitions for Contract Management Agility

Agiloft is another rare breed in the Supply Management space. It’s ancient (as it was founded in 1991, only a year after the first web browser was invented), it was founded to be a back-office B2B enterprise application (and their main offerings are service desk, workflow & business process management, and contract management), it’s debt-free, […]