REPORT: The 2025 State of Contracting

Contract Intelligence for Automotive

Lower Costs, Reduce Risks With AI-Powered Contract Digitization and Insights

With the Icertis platform, leading automotive companies are embracing contract-centric sourcing to lower costs, reduce supplier risk, and accelerate time-to-market.

The Challenge

Leverage the Full Value From Every Commercial Relationship

Contracts are the foundation of commerce, and they support the entire automotive value chain, including Engineering & Technology, Supply Chain & Procurement, Production & Operations, Human Resource Management, Partner Management, and Sales & Marketing.

Contracts have a direct impact on an organization's revenue and spending. But have you ever measured how well your contracts are performing for your enterprise? If you haven't here are the potential risks:

  • Suboptimal contract terms combined with suboptimal fulfillment can cause an erosion of value equal to 9% of a business’s annual revenues. (World Commerce & Contracting Association).

  • A massive digital transformation is happening across all facets of the Automotive industry: electric drivetrains, connected vehicles, on-demand features, and direct-to-consumer sales.

  • OEMs and their Suppliers are under pressure to continue to drive product innovation while reducing costs, improving safety, and increasing top-line and bottom-line revenues.

  • With contracts touching virtually every dimension of the Automotive supply chain, how can companies ensure the intent of every agreement is fully realized as part of ongoing operations?
  • Stop Revenue Leakage Before It Impacts the Bottom Line

    Link production agreements with dealer and sales channel commitments to quickly identify order variances caused by market shifts. Icertis connects seamlessly with your systems of record, enabling real-time insight and rapid response.

  • Gain Complete Supplier Visibility from Tier I to Tier III

    Ensure suppliers have full transparency into contractual obligations—down to pricing, capacity, and delivery terms—with structured visibility at the clause, attribute, and obligation level.

  • Reduce Risk with a Unified View of All Contracts

    Establish a single source of truth for internal and external contracts to proactively identify and mitigate risk across the entire automotive supply chain—reducing delays and improving compliance.

  • Protect Margins with Real-Time Contract Intelligence

    Compare contract terms with actual performance to uncover margin erosion drivers like rising costs, labor discrepancies, and inflation—empowering OEMs and suppliers to take corrective action fast.

  • Ensure Flow-Down Compliance Across the Supply Chain

    Confidently enforce quality standards, material specifications, delivery schedules, and other flow-down requirements by tracking and analyzing compliance at every level of the supply chain.

  • Boost Operational Productivity Across the Contract Lifecycle

    Streamline contract creation, negotiation, execution, and renewal to accelerate cycle times and reduce administrative burden across all automotive supply chain stakeholders.

Customer Stories

Trusted by leading automotive companies

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“Icertis gives us a single point of truth, analytics capabilities, and seamless integrations with the rest of our enterprise software.”
Jan Brecht
Chief Information Officer

The Icertis Platform

Achieve Business Agility with Contract Intelligence

Transforming contracts into structured, connected, and on-demand data is just the beginning. Discover the power of intelligent contract creation, automation, and insights to realize the full intent and maximize the value of every contract, clause, and obligation across the enterprise.

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