contract management

Financial services firms are turning to Business Spend Management (BSM) as a Strategic Solution Beset by competitors and burdened by ever-shifting regulatory requirements, financial services firms are turning to cloud-based technology to gain better control over—and visibility into—spending. In the process, they are becoming fiercer competitors. Download this ebook for insights into how you can improve your organization's financial health and how: A cloud complete-BSM solution can track and measure all purchasing activities, identifying patterns that provide opportunities for negotiating discounts, and better managing risk To increase savings across source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, travel & expense management, as well as risk and supplier management Modern technology enables the finance function to take cost-management to a deeper level—without investing in IT infrastructure

Healthcare organizations are facing uncertain times, which are putting enormous strains on their revenue cycle management (RCM). Automation is proven to improve RCM measures, and even small improvements can significantly impact the bottom line. This whitepaper details how providers can embrace automation to help drive financial performance.

Children’s Mercy is not only one of the nation’s top pediatric medical centers, they have a strategy that improves organizational profitability in the face of constant change – all while delivering world-class care for their patients. Children’s Mercy accomplished what many have tried: integrating hospital and ambulatory revenue cycle activities with complete integration of all processes on a single IT platform.

Sharp is leading the way in the shift to shared risk. In this journey, they manage to the right financial metrics while still delivering appropriate care to their patient population. Watch the video to learn how GE Healthcare is helping Sharp make a difference.

Centricity™ Business helps Virginia Commonwealth University achieve new heights in financial performance while delivering award-winning care.

Centricity™ Business Performance Manager service helps Schumacher Group make significant workflow improvements and reduce rework costs by approximately $3.8 million per year.

The shift to value-based reimbursement (VBR) entails more financial risk for providers. Successful management of the transition to VBR can only be achieved when healthcare organizations are clinically and financially integrated to ensure tight care coordination and efficient resource utilization. That level of integration requires the aid of a robust IT infrastructure to support the enterprise. This whitepaper offers the opportunity to learn about new tools for healthcare providers to manage financial challenges associated with value-based reimbursement

This paper will explore some of the market dynamics driving the financial volatility in healthcare and will explore how advanced analytics, with the right IT backbone and organizational competencies, can help organizations successfully identify ways to manage revenue cycle profitability.

The complexities of distribution make it a most daunting challenge. Indeed, for hoteliers, mastering it might be akin to finding the industry’s Holy Grail. Consider the task’s many facets: Maximizing exposure to attract new customers and establish presence in markets, both near and far, requires contracts and integration with an everchanging cast of OTAs and metasearch companies. Evaluating voluminous amounts of data for rate management practically defines “paralysis by analysis.” And demonstrating online capabilities that can adapt to the ever-changing demands of today’s consumers – who expect everything to be faster, better and cheaper than yesterday.

The advent of cloud computing and software-defined data center architectures for modern application delivery has made networking more sensitive than ever before. Applications in the digital age require networks that can expand and contract dynamically based on consumer demand. Enterprises are implementing software-defined networking (SDN) to deliver the automation required by these new environments, but the dynamic nature of SDN makes network management and monitoring fundamentally more challenging. Network infrastructure teams need monitoring tools that can provide visibility into these new and constantly changing networks. This white paper explores the importance of SDN monitoring and examines a leading example of a solution, CA Performance Management with CA Virtual Network Assurance integration.

Is your supplier only interested in selling you more products? Or are they committed to helping your business succeed?

Download this paper to find out how Primavera Unifier’s granularity supports the entire team’s participation while giving your organisation the peace of mind that critical data is protected and accessed by authorised users.

As projects become larger and more complex, the variation in contracting standards around the world makes compliance increasingly challenging to maintain—especially when project teams are often operating in different time zones. Easy access to tools that streamline compliance with a range of contracting standards enables construction firms to rapidly improve communication, optimise efficiency and mitigate risk.

This whitepaper features a discussion of how leading healthcare organizations are developing a strategy for risk contracting and population health management.

The sponsor named below commissioned Ardent Partners to write this report. While the report topic In 2015, collaboration is the name of the game in procurement and frequently entails working with key internal stakeholders (like line-of-business managers and legal departments) or preferred suppliers to drive greater value through sourcing and procurement. For Chief Procurement Officers ("CPOs") and other supply management leaders, collaboration has taken on many new and innovative forms over the years, causing these executives to leverage new (and, in some cases, existing) processes, relationships, and technologies to enhance compliance, decrease risk, and increase savings. One such business process, contract management, has been reborn with digital, automated features that can shift the way procurement teams collaborate, mitigate risk, drive performance, and realize greater savings for the enterprise.

Why it’s more important than ever before. Today, wider varieties of contract types, larger numbers of stakeholders, and increased government regulatory requirements are all driving the demands of the global economy and making contract management even more crucial and complex.

These are the end times for traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Overstatement? Not really—especially for growing businesses like yours. Old-school ERP systems are simply too slow, complex, and inflexible to keep up with today’s business climate. Think about your existing ERP. Does it support industry-specific best practices, ever-changing regulatory requirements, and emerging technologies such as social media, mobile, cloud, and analytics? If not, you could risk losing ground to your competitors as a result.

Did you ever wonder what enterprise resource planning or ERP is and how it can help your business? Or perhaps you know a little about ERP but you’re not sure if you should opt for an on-premise or cloud solution and what to expect from your final choice. Don’t worry. If you’re a business owner, manager or director in a mid-sized or growing business and you’re confused about ERP, this guide will help you.

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As our unpredictable world becomes more complex, interdependent and dangerous, it’s becoming harder to manage third-party risk. Traditional financial and operational risks seem like the good old days. Now procurement has to manage, mitigate and avoid risks as disparate as conflict minerals, cybercrime, natural disasters, resource depletion and many others.

Twelve Key Trends in Contract Management CEB Legal’s contract management survey results allow general counsel to evaluate their current contract review and monitoring processes against hundreds of their peers at midsized companies. Your peers are using our 12 Key Trends in Contracts Management to: o Gain in-depth insight into the challenges and viable solutions presented by the current contracts management landscape. o Determine the scope of their contract review policies. o Identify opportunities to accelerate their approach across the contract life cycle -- from drafting through negotiation, review, and monitoring. o Improve efficiency using contract management software, including a review of key features and associated costs

A global transportation company was challenged with high contract cost due to frequent part failures. Genpact implements the right Failure forecast modeling technique to reduce overall part consumption by ~43% till the life of the contract.

In this white paper we explore how smaller contractors can now have access to robust and compliant solutions via the cloud, thus removing the IT and cost barriers that previously kept these solutions out of reach.

This 30- minute webcast recording reviews the basics of project management and reporting for government contractors. Based on content from the Deltek Special Edition Government Contracting for Dummies e-book.

Jonas Construction Software has been present in construction and service management since 1990 and is the choice of more than 1,000 contractors in various construction trades. Since 2007, Jonas has won six prestigious award for its paperless service management applications. In 2010 the company won a "Top Product" award for their service management program. The software manages the business activities of firms in a variety of construction trades but handles the mechanical/HVAC, electrical and plumbing trades especially well. The software also contains extensive functionality to handle the general contracting trade.