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Overview of Enterprise Contract Features

Oracle Enterprise Contracts provides the most complete solution for managing sales, procurement, and other contracts. It's a comprehensive offering for standardizing corporate contract policies, improving internal controls, and complying with all contractual obligations and regulatory requirements.

Summary of Features

The key features of Enterprise Contracts include the following:

  • Standardize the contract process
  • Speed up contract renewal cycles
  • Improve visibility and drive contract compliance

Standardize the Contract Process

With Enterprise Contracts, companies can implement contract best practices with standard templates, clauses, and contract policy rules that can be enforced enterprise-wide. Global organizations can establish company-wide standards that can be adopted and tailored by regional administrators to comply with local or country-specific regulations.

Contract administrators and legal personnel might author and negotiate many complex contracts each year. Enterprise Contracts simplifies the process by allowing contract administrators to maintain a central library of standard clauses, contract templates, and policy rules across the enterprise. Contract templates enable rapid assembly and creation of contracts by providing standard contract boilerplate language for each type of sale or procurement. Policy rules specify which clauses are required for a contract or protected against updates during negotiation.

Speed up Contract and Renewal Cycles

The Contract Expert feature guides users through a questionnaire. Based on the user's responses and other negotiated business terms, such as products, prices, and contract amount, Contract Expert adds any required clauses. Standards-based contracts can be generated, reviewed, and approved with little or no legal supervision. Users can print the contract as a PDF document for signature. The application also enforces contract policy controls to prevent unauthorized modifications. Contract collaboration and negotiation is streamlined using the two-way integration with Microsoft Word. The change tracking in Microsoft Word enables the contract administrator, legal department, or the external party to make changes offline. The document is synchronized with the structured contract terms stored in the application.

Improve Visibility and Drive Contract Compliance

A single view of all enterprise contracts is essential for effective management of contract activities and for reporting and analysis of outstanding supplier, customer, and partner commitments. Contracts enables contract professionals to search and view all contracts from a single location. The text-based search engine can combine keyword searches with structured information like contract dates or amounts, providing unprecedented access to contracts for all key stakeholders. The Contracts Dashboard provides a snapshot of all contract-related activities, including deliverables progress, approvals, and contracts that need attention.

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