Green Notebook Assessment

Do you have easy insight into your vendor spend whereby you can quickly identify sourcing opportunities?

Does your organization have, and enforce, clear, written vendor management policies endorsed by executive leadership?

Does your organization require that a nondisclosure agreement is executed prior to beginning specific discussions with a vendor?

Does your organization have a uniform process for developing and executing negotiation strategies that everyone follows?

Does your organization conduct RFP’s at every opportunity?

Does your organization maintain and use your own standard contract templates?

Does your organization store all executed contracts in a central repository and use key contract data to manage those contracts, proactively?

Does your organization have a clear and consistent approach for establishing, measuring, and monitoring SLA’s and KPI’s related to vendor performance, with remediation?

Do you require that each of your SaaS vendors provide you annual SOC2 Type II attestations and quarterly pen test reports, and remediate any deficiencies identified therein?

Do you engage objective third parties to assess and be a part of your procurement process?