Hi team, James here from the Ironclad team--I've had the privilege of working with a lot of you over the years and am stoked to see how active the Community forums have become! For folks who I haven't met, I've been at Ironclad for 4.5+ years, focused on helping customers design and deploy solutions for their unique contract problems. I'm reaching out to start a discussion about community best practices for procurement processes and vendor contracts. We want to learn from you all to ensure we're making the best possible recommendations to our customers for these use-cases!
To that end, I'd love to harness the wisdom of this group and learn about how you're using Ironclad to power procurement/vendor processes at your company. A few of the types of things we're curious about:
- Do you have a dedicated procurement function or is Legal filling this gap? If you do have a procurement team, how do you interact with them in Ironclad? Are there specific features that resonate with your procurement colleagues?
- How do you think about structuring your vendor workflows? Have you built a "kitchen sink" vendor intake form or do you try to segment by purchase type (E.g. one workflow for SaaS agreements, another for consultants)? How are you steering your business folks to using your paper, if at all?
- What other tools are you using in your procurement process (e.g. Coupa, Netsuite, security review tools)? Do these systems talk to Ironclad? Should they?
- What are the bottlenecks in your procurement process? How have you tried to fix them? If you had a magic wand, how could Ironclad help?
- What else should I be asking about? @kenneth_carter Have you cooked up any mad scientist purchasing workflows that we should know about? @David_Wieseneck What's your perspective as a CFO?
Thanks all!
