“In order to gain in effectiveness, the sales team can now write their own contracts thanks to the clause library in which each clause has been pre-validated by the legal department. This process of making contract templates saves time therefore allowing corporate counsels to spend more time helping other departments.
Recognized throughout the world for his for his fine tableware, Guy Degrenne chose the Legal Suite to optimize the follow-up of their legal department’s contracts and to advise more efficiently the group’s other departments.
Cutlery, porcelain, glassware, kitchen accessories… Guy Degrenne’s clients are found around the world, whether they be part of the general public or large industry. His sales team travels the world, always in search of new lucrative markets. The buyers and product managers work with thousands of suppliers. All this activity generates a large amount of contracts every month which need to be drafted, verified, followed-up on and amended.
All these contracts mean a lot of work for the company’s legal department. “We didn’t have a standardized way of dealing with our contracts within the group, explains Philippe Lassaux, Legal Director. The implementation of an IT solution allowed us to wake up and reflect on the best practices to put in place.”
In 2003 Guy Degrenne equipped his company with 2 Legal Suite modules: Legal Advising and Contract. He was immediately impressed with the tool power and the fact that he could now insure a perfect traceability of his legal documents. In March 2005, a few months before he migrated to an intranet version, Guy Degrenne added one more Legal Suite module to his application, LBACT/DOC. With this innovative solution, the purchasing director, marketing director as well as the sales team can now draft their own contracts risk free given that each terms and clauses are pre-validated and protected before hand by the legal department.
Results: a true time saver for the legal team as well as greater autonomy and better reactivity for users. The legal department can now concentrate on advising and supporting instead of spending all their time drafting documents. Guy Degrenne has already planed to complete his solution by adding the module “Real Estate” to help him manage his many sales outlets. Guy Degrenne’s choice to implement the Legal Suite confirms the new need for corporate counsels to equip themselves with IT tools completely adapted to their needs.
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