iMANY FOR FOOD SERVICE

Food service contracting has evolved from reactive contract and agreements management as deduction issues to proactive management as rebates and billbacks. Food Service contract terms can define millions of dollars in corporate commitments, and yet most contracts are authored through semi-formal processes and disparate systems. Billbacks, incentives and administrative fees require complex calculations and the potential for revenue loss is massive. In order to stay competitive, manufacturers must carefully monitor contract performance and prevent revenue leakage due to errors such as duplicate billbacks or invalid deductions. Only iMANY® CONTRACTSPHERE® provides all the critical capabilities that provide a competitive edge for contract and agreement revenues and maintain complete auditability for compliance.

Commercial Contracting

Food service manufacturers rely on strategic contracting methods in commercial markets to maximize profits and maintain a competitive edge. Contract prices and incentives are carefully modeled in arrangements that encourage product growth and expand market share. Manufacturers require comprehensive solutions that enable them to model revenue impact across multiple contract scenarios and maintain auditability and compliance. iMANY ContractSphere provides industry-leading solutions for managing the contract negotiation process; analysis of contract strategies and methods; pricing adjudication and settlement processes; and a full suite of advanced workflow capabilities.
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Government Contracting

The Federal government is, by far, the largest contractor in the U.S. and awards contracts for various products and services including consumer products, services and military products. Contracting with the government is dramatically different than commercial contracting with the private sector. Driven by public policy and U.S. law federal government contracts are heavily regulated to curb misappropriation of funds and ensure uniform policies and practices across agencies. Contract terms are the product of careful drafting by teams of government attorneys and have often received distinct meaning through past contract adjudications. Given the government's special status, disputes under federal government contracts follow a different procedural path than those under private contracts. State agencies, municipalities and public authorities operating under state law are subject to similar government contract regulations but at the state level.

Only iMANY® CONTRACTSPHERE® provides all the critical capabilities for contract authoring, execution and administration within a centralized and searchable hub for all government contract-related information including hierarchical contract storage; auto-detection of government requirements; flowdown of government requirements to owners; contractor to sub-contractor flowdown; contract closeout and reassembly of RFP after flowdown iMANY Contract Manager
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Trade and Brand Management

In today's highly competitive life sciences marketplace trade and brand managers at leading manufacturers are embracing the demand-driven enterprise for competitive advantage. Success depends on the ability to read and react quickly to demand signals across the organization. Contextual understanding of these demand-driven variables provides the greatest insight. When intelligently organized, processed and reported, channel data can enable the monitoring, response and orchestration of demand to optimize business performance. Only iMANY® CONTRACTSPHERE provides the ability to validate, analyze and transform 852 and 867 EDI based sales data to drive robust channel reporting, order management, fee for service, forecast and launch management for optimal trade and brand management.
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Legal and Compliance

Legal and Compliance teams are responsible for governance and mitigation of legal and regulatory compliance risk through the entire lifecycle of buy and sell-side commercial and government contracts. Many organizations rely on generic document management systems, enterprise portals designed for collaboration or file-based shared drives on corporate networks to manage contracts and clause libraries stored in unstructured documents; worse still, some manage contracts by maintaining physical paper assets. Lack of visibility and management into contracts dramatically increase the risk, exposure and revenue leakage that these legal agreements can bring by the use and acceptance of non-standard language, missed or unwanted renewals, new amendment terms, and penalties for missed payments and non-compliance. Only iMANY® CONTRACTSPHERE® provides all the critical capabilities for contract authoring, execution and administration within a centralized and searchable hub for all contract-related information usable by cross-functional business users.
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Finance

The office of Finance, using a structured approach needs manage governance and compliance with legal, tax and accounting regulatory requirements, evaluate the soundness of buy and sell-side commercial and government contracts align processes and controls and optimize margins and advice on future performance based on accurate information of the organizations budgeted, actual and forecasted performance. Lack of visibility into contracts before signature of agreements limits the ability to optimize contract revenue, margins, and discounts and analyze the impact to the business. Inaccurate accrual for future and time-lagged transactions create incorrect financial statements which may shake shareholder confidence and increase regulatory scrutiny. Only iMANY® CONTRACTSPHERE® provides all the critical capabilities needed to set the right incentives, for the right contract at the right time; provide full visibility into contract and Gross to Net margin performance; and establish accurate accruals and estimates of future performance.
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Sales & Marketing

Sales and Marketing teams operate in a highly competitive marketplace that requires rapid and efficient proposal and contract generation. Only iMANY® CONTRACTSPHERE® provides all the critical self - service capabilities for initiating contract creation utilizing a web-based application including from Smartphone and mobile devices. Through proactive alerts and robust Business Intelligence reporting sales teams can stay ahead of contract and account performance and significant contracting milestones including impending payments and contract expiration.
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