Contract management systems help you get the most out of your contracts
Contract professionals in the manufacturing industries face difficult challenges with their supplier and customer contracts. Often, they don’t have a clear view into the long-term scope of contracts, which can result in lower operating margins. They can also lack consistency and controls over their data and processes. This can lead to a service and warranty management nightmare. And without being able to maintain the required regulatory compliance, manufacturers can experience serious legal exposure. These complex contract problems when faced without contract management systems, can be nearly impossible to overcome. Thankfully there is a better way.
Lack of visibility into long-term scope of contracts

Shrinking operating margins
Lack of consistency and controls in their data and processes

Service and warranty management nightmare
Inability to maintain required regulatory compliance

Increased legal exposure
Lack of visibility into long-term scope of contracts
Lack of consistency and controls in their data and processes
Inability to maintain required regulatory compliance
Results in:
Shrinking operating margins
Service and warranty management nightmare
Increased legal exposure
Manufacturing companies need not despair! Modern contract management systems, like Malbek, provide tools to overcome the unique problems faced by this industry. The Malbek contract management solution enables manufacturers to optimize margins through pre-deal analytics and what-if scenario modeling to gain a better understanding of which business terms will impact profitability. Service and warranty tracking automates milestones and makes it easy to seamlessly integrate invoice data with contract terms, reducing revenue leakage. And to address legal exposure, Malbek makes it possible to clauses that carry a high level of risk, highlight unfavorable terms throughout contracts, and compare historical contract performance to assess current exposure levels.
Here’s how Malbek's contract management system can help

Optimize Margins
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Playbook enables pre-deal analysis
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Unlimited what-if analysis by tweaking multiple levers
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Clear understanding of which business terms affect profitability

Service and Warranty Tracking
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Automated milestone and warranty tracking
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Seamless integration of invoice data with contract terms
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Variance and non-standard transaction tracking to reduce revenue leakage

Reduce Legal Exposure
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Automated flagging of risky clauses
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Highlighting of unfavorable terms across contracts
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Comparison against historical contracts to grade current contract exposure