Year-over-year price increases have become the norm, but that doesn’t mean your organization should accept them as inevitable. Many contracts are structured to allow steady cost creep without delivering added value. In this session, you’ll learn how to spot the hidden mechanisms that drive annual increases, build contract language that safeguards your bottom line, and hold vendors accountable to performance and outcomes—not routine escalations.

• Explore negotiation tactics to secure flat or predictable pricing over time
• Identify common contract clauses that enable automatic annual cost escalations
• Discover benchmarking strategies to challenge unjustified price hikes