SPRING BRANCH ISD
DocuSign CLM , Mitigating Risk and Increasing Efficiencies As the world began to procure the supplies needed to combat COVID-19 , spiking demand far beyond the norm and planned for , supply chains became fraught with issues . Mitigating risk and securing supplies delivered on time and as needed was critical to avoiding stockouts . Gay ’ s trusted vendors , and well-tuned inventory and order management , kept him safe .
“ We ’ re very lucky . I have not had a real delay in any of those supplies because we ' ve used contractors and contracts that we already had in place that had very robust supply chains . We left the classroom back in March of 2020 , and we didn ' t come back until September of 2020 . That gave us time to get all of those supplies into place and make sure that each teacher in a class term had plenty of all the necessary supplies without risking deadstock , and so our strategy was to ensure a steady supply versus an oversupply .”
Digital Contract Lifecycle Management ( CLM ) ensured proper management of those vital contracts . “ In July of 2019 ,
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