Why Do Businesses Need ARC Management Tool?
An annual rate contract is an agreement between the supplier and the buyer to provide goods for a particular unit price for a predetermined time, usually one year or until the rate contract expires. Annual rate contracts offer buyers and sellers a win-win situation in which they both accept an agreed price for the duration of the contract. Annual rate contracts, or ARCs, provide stability needed to protect both buyers and sellers from an unexpected price increase.
The Annual Rate contract management software solution speeds up and simplifies the contract generation process by enabling cloud-based contract verification, compliance analytics, and clause templates. It provides procurement teams with more knowledge on the effectiveness of a contract, enabling these teams to assess if the business partnership will support the company’s high-valued objectives in both the short and long run time.
Simple and Faster Contract Authoring
You can avoid starting from scratch every time you need to build a contract by utilizing Annual Rate Contract Management technologies for authoring and creation. Your system’s terms and clauses will be updated automatically rather than manually. Don’t complicate the Contract management process that eats up your productive time. Make it simple and faster.
Simplify your Rate contract creation with no more time and energy. Use the templates that are ready to use to meet your rate contract needs. You can also create a custom template or customize an existing template as per the contract requirement without any extra effort.
No more Document re-creation when the Rate contract renewal is due. Access the old Annual Rate Contract document and simply renew it with the nominal changes required or create a contract renewal agreement template to standardize the contract renewal process.
Get Rid of Repetitive Rate Contracts and Negotiations
Streamline your Negotiation and Rate Contract Creations with Ready-to-use Contract Templates
Quick Turnaround Time
Most of the contract formation and renewal process is time taking as it keeps traveling between both parties for discussions and negotiation and signatures for approvals. With the ARC management tool, you can easily highlight discussion points without physical document exchange and sign it digitally when negotiated and mutually agreed upon by both parties.
For negotiations, there is no need to exchange document attachments. By using password-protected links, allow restricted access to counterparty contacts. Bi-direction accessible document shortens the turnaround time and expedites the process.
With redlining, contextual remarks, and version control tools, you may easily carry out several rounds of negotiation. contract acceptance and renewal with a digital signature are expedited.
Seamless Obligation Management
Enjoy reducing contract risks with top-notch obligation management. Each contract’s contextual obligations module makes sure that all of the responsibilities are carried out. Create reminders to make sure you never forget a contract need.
Every time every action need not to be initiated by you. With the ARC module, you can delegate the respective tasks to respective business owners. Keep the recurring tasks delegated to reduce the repetitive work for contract creation and renewals.
Monitor all the annual rate contracts, their deliverables, and their performance, and assess them against the preset KPIs with real-time contract monitoring. Based on real-time analytics manage the renewals or cancellations of the Annual contracts.
Keep Track of Vendor Performance and Rate Contract Renewals in Real Time
Take Data-driven decision while renewing your Annual Rate Contracts with Real-time Analytics
Elevate Contract Management Life Cycle
By drastically reducing cycle time and improving compliance, the Contract Management automation solution with the ARC module lowers maverick spending, improves operation, and enhances the entire contracting experience.
Using ARC Module with Contract management, coworkers can make real-time updates to a single document. This provides you more control over the contract’s specifics and assures that everyone is working from the same version.
All contracts you enter into are stored and organized by a contract management system with an ARC module, preventing them from clogging up your space and procedures and making them easily available with just a few clicks.
Key Features of Annual Contract Rate Management Tool
User-friendly templates, clause libraries, and external template support simplify contract drafting.
Automated approvals and tracking of modifications with personalized processes.
Rapid insights, comparable rate variants, and updates through email or mobile.
Execution of annual rate contracts more quickly and CLM experience with enhanced value.
Metadata that is adaptable and dynamically integrated.
Milestones for tracking contract use, powerful reporting tools, and interactive dashboards.
Industries We Serve
Maintenance
Education
Oil & Gas
Real Estate
Banking
Equipment
Healthcare
Non-Profit
Government
Fire Department/EMS
Hotels
Food & Beverage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Does the "Annual Contract Rate" mean?
An annual rate contract is an agreement between the supplier and the buyer to provide goods for a certain unit price for a predetermined amount of time, usually a year.
What is the Purpose of an Annual Rate Contract in Business?
The annual rate contract’s main purpose is to assist a firm in setting guidelines for the acquisition of products and services required for its ongoing operations. Controlling operational costs is one of the annual rate contract’s biggest advantages
How ARC Module Can Streamline your Procurement?
Annual Rate Contracts reduce the time spent on Rate negotiation every time you go for procurement and help you expedite the creation and authoring of contracts between business partners.
Can ARC Module send a Notification when the Renewal is due?
Yes. You will be able to receive a renewal notification on your smartphone or in the email when the contract is near to the renewal period.