Mitigate risk, enhance business process design, and optimize integration with your corporate ERP systems across all phases of the contract life cycle with Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) Consulting from Perot Systems.
According to the Aberdeen Group's Contract Management Benchmark Report (June 2003), nearly half of every revenue dollar is spent on goods and services from suppliers. And for manufacturers, supplier costs account for 60 to 80 percent of a product's final cost.
Most of an organization's transactions involving goods and services begin with some form of corporate business contract—the most common being sales orders and purchase orders, documents that most managers consider insignificant in terms of their effect on revenue. However, effective life-cycle contract management can add hard dollars to the corporate bottom line.
Perot Systems' Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) solutions can help organizations mitigate risk, enhance business process design, and optimize integration with corporate ERP systems across all phases of the contract life cycle. ECM solutions facilitate corporate governance on a transaction–by-transaction basis and deliver standardization and control not possible in a paper-based environment. Most importantly, ECM solutions integrate workflow to identify, correct, and prevent transactions initiated outside the parameters of the governing contract, thereby operationalizing business process.
Perot Systems is one of the few consultancies to establish a comprehensive ECM practice to help companies realize the benefits of ECM. Our business process design and deployment methodologies have been organized along industry-specific business processes and nuances.
Our expert teams can help your organization:
Assess the existing life-cycle contract environment to identify inefficiencies and determine the level of corporate exposure
Align IT strategy to corporate strategy and objectives for more effective governance and competitive advantage
Design short- and long-term business / technology roadmaps to achieve common business objectives
Empower teams to achieve organizational and process improvements that are enabled by successful implementation of an ECM solution
Ensure compliance with internal controls and external regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley
