About Company
Founded in 1983, Express Employment Professionals serves customers globally through a network of more than 850 franchise locations worldwide.
Express used Symfact as their primary contract management solution to manage all the service agreements, vendor, franchise, and employee agreements. With an increasing number of contracts and limited functionality in Symfact, contract managers at Express wanted to achieve a single source of truth for all their service agreements and contracts, and also simplify the contract authoring and storage.
Moreover, Symfact is an OnPrem contract solution making it challenging to work across borders, and needed a cloud-based contract management solution. Also, the contract managers wanted to implement role-based contract access with streamlined contract audits that comply with their monthly, quarterly compliance schedules.
Key Contract Management Challenges
We work with 800+ vendors and recruitment partners, making it challenging to get visibility for contracts created, canceled, processed, and signed. We are looking to adopt AI and get contract visibility across all the agreements which lacked in the on-premises contract management solution. Another challenge for Aavenir’s team was to abstract and migrate all the legacy contracts to the ServiceNow platform shared with the customer.
The key challenges include:
- Extended contract review cycles
- Preliminary implementation with the earlier vendor with limited functionality
- Lack of contract reporting
- No direct visibility in contract status
"Since implementing Aavenir Contractflow in 2021, we've seen a remarkable 66 percent acceleration in the legal review process at Express Pros. The user-friendly interface of Aavenir has made it easy for our team to adapt, requiring minimal training. What used to take days for legal reviews now only takes hours, greatly benefiting our franchisees. I wholeheartedly recommend the Aavenir team for their responsiveness and unwavering support—they always prioritize our needs!"-Jared Mashaney
VP of Legal & Asst. General Counsel, Express Employment International
The Solution: Aavenir Contract Lifecycle Management Solution for Professional Services
Express’ service agreements are managed in Symfact, and all the data needed to be migrated to the ServiceNow platform as it offers more flexibility. Aavenir Contractflow is an AI-enabled cloud-based contract management solution built natively on the ServiceNow platform delivering Microsoft Word enabled contract authoring, secure storage, and advanced contract reports with contract audit dashboards. Additionally, they wanted to simplify the contract workflow process, keeping the entire contracting process streamlined in a single system. Moreover, contract redlining and editing contract agreements were easy with Aavenir Word add-in.
AI-enabled Contract Authoring + Centralization
Express can create multiple service agreements and consolidate all contracts in a centralized repository on Now Platform with enhanced contract search functionality. AI helped to create contracts directly from emails and other digital documents, simplifying the contract authoring cycle.
Cancel Contracts with Flexible Workflows
Some of the service agreements were required to be canceled in real-time which was achieved with Aavenir Contractflow. Also, the solution offered custom contract processing workflows based on the vendor type. The signing of contracts was implemented to capture both wet and e-signatures.
Renaming Contracts with Drag n Drop Contract Creation from Attachment
Express’ contract management team needed to create agreements on the fly, so a custom implementation was enabled in Aavenir Contractflow where users can create agreements by simply drag-n-drop of email attachments and the AI would create contracts on the fly. This shortens the contract creation time and proper contract version controls were maintained in the centralized contract management system. Renaming contract agreements were also implemented in the Aavenir Contractflow solution to maximize efficiency and reduce contract creation time.
Contract Reports & Dashboards
Aavenir Contractflow offered custom contract dashboards providing contract visibility for key metrics like contract by month, contract cycle time report for individual contract types, contract due to renewal, upcoming renewals, total spend by vendor, total spend by status, and more.
Key Results
Express Professionals and Aavenir teams went through a series of sessions for successful implementation and adoption. And, it wasn’t long before they saw the benefits of using Aavenir Contractflow.
- Centralized contract repository
- Unified contract workflow
- Real-time visibility in contract status
