For the vendor and contract manager
Stronger vendor relationships. Smarter contracts. Lower risk. More value.
Contracts, obligations, rate cards, spend, assessments and fourth parties in one model, so the notice period is a date you plan for, not one you discover.
In one sentence
AlignX holds every supplier, contract, obligation and renewal on one record, with renewals counted from the decision date rather than the end date.
Written forHead of Vendor ManagementCommercial DirectorContract ManagerProcurement Director
The challenge
The questions management will ask you.
- Which contracts are up for renewal, and which need a decision now?
- Are our suppliers delivering what we are paying for?
- Are we paying what the deal said we would?
- How well do we actually know our most critical suppliers?
- Could we leave this supplier, and what would it cost to exit?
- If this supplier knows we cannot realistically leave, how strong is our negotiating position?
If any of these takes a week to answer, the rest of this page is for you.
The solution
What the contract manager holds.
Renewal gate
A renewal is a process with a decision in it, not a date on a record.
Notice window open, commercial review done, the renewal decision in progress. Renew, renegotiate or exit, with the approver and the date the call is due.
Obligations
Every obligation with its owner, its due date and its state.
Availability, breach notification, service reviews, data residency, exit assistance. Fulfilled, in progress, open or overdue, each on a person.
Spend and rate cards
Budget against actual, by quarter, on the contract.
What the rate card said, what was invoiced, and where the quarter ran over, on the same record as the obligations.
Provider assurance
Tier, due diligence date and every assessment targeting the provider.
Federation provider assurance, vendor security review, data protection assessment. In progress or completed, on the provider's record.
Fourth parties
Who the provider depends on, and who they depend on.
Microsoft Azure hosts the broker, Sectigo issues the certificates, CyberCX runs the out-of-hours response. Named on the provider's record, not discovered in an incident.
Day to day
What changes.
The AlignX technology
Nothing new to govern.
Runs inside Microsoft 365In your tenant, on your Dataverse. Nothing leaves it.
Entra ID governs who sees whatThe roles you already run decide access. No second directory.
Australian data residencyYour Dataverse environment sits in an Australian region. Purview and retention policies apply as they do everywhere else.
Questions
What vendor managers ask us.
Does AlignX replace our CLM tool (Ironclad, SirionLabs, DocuSign CLM)?
AlignX manages the vendor and contract lifecycle end to end: intake, assessment, negotiation support, execution, obligation tracking, renewal and exit. Where you have a document-heavy CLM, AlignX integrates and adds the business context CLM tools lack. Most organisations consolidate to AlignX within 12 months and retire the standalone CLM.
What vendor risk, CLM and procurement tools can we consolidate?
Typically: your CLM platform, your vendor risk tool (Prevalent, ProcessUnity, OneTrust), your Modern Slavery assessment spreadsheets, your vendor performance tracker and your obligation register. All consolidate into AlignX with integration to procurement (Coupa, SAP Ariba) and finance for spend actuals.
How does AlignX handle contract expiry, renewal windows and auto-renewal traps?
Every contract carries key dates (start, end, notice period, auto-renewal, price review) with alerts configured to the responsible owner. Renewal windows appear on the vendor dashboard with lead time, so you never wake up to an auto-renewal you did not plan for.
Can I track vendor risk and performance in the same view as spend?
Yes. Vendor records carry risk (cyber, financial, modern slavery, privacy), performance (SLA, satisfaction, incidents) and spend on one page. Renewal decisions get made on evidence, not politics.
How does AlignX connect vendors to the applications, projects and risks they touch?
Every vendor links to the applications it supplies, the projects it delivers, the risks it introduces and the contracts that govern it. When a vendor has an incident or fails an assessment, you see business exposure instantly, not after a scramble.
How do we handle Modern Slavery, cyber and privacy assessments per vendor?
Configurable assessment questionnaires (Modern Slavery, cyber, privacy, ESG, financial viability) with evidence capture and automatic risk scoring. Assessment history lives on the vendor record. Modern Slavery Act reporting and third-party compliance reporting run off the same data with no manual roll-up.
How does AlignX integrate with our procurement, finance and legal systems?
Two-way integration with procurement platforms (Coupa, SAP Ariba, Oracle Procurement), finance systems (SAP, Oracle, TechnologyOne) and e-signature (DocuSign, Adobe Sign). AlignX is the connected vendor and contract intelligence layer over the transactional systems that stay.
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