Looking back, it would appear that this is one topic that I have not really tackled yet. Back in week one, I made an initial post on Contract Management, but although I have mentioned the importance of good contract management in a number of posts here and over in my summer series on e-Sourcing Forum. […]
Monday we defined a basic strategic sourcing process, indicated there were five critical process driven phases that can be greatly enhanced by software solutions, and indicated that we would spend one day discussing each of these technologies this week. Monday we discussed spend management and spend analysis, Tuesday we discussed RFX, Wednesday we discussed auctions, […]
The Wikipedia definition is the management of contracts made with customers, vendors, partners or employees and the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance and minimizing risk. In a wiki-paper on the e-Sourcing Wiki*, I differentiated between basic and enterprise contract management, […]
In Part 21 we noted that after Supplier Management came Contract Management because the only way to lock in the opportunity was to get a contract signed on the bottom line. However, like Supplier Management, Contract Management isn’t consistent across vendors because each has a different idea on what Contract Management actually is … and […]
In Part 21 we noted that after Supplier Management came Contract Management because the only way to lock in the opportunity was to get a contract signed on the bottom line. However, like Supplier Management, Contract Management isn’t consistent across vendors because each has a different idea on what Contract Management actually is … and […]