Obligation tracking is the discipline of monitoring the specific commitments a party has made in a contract - deadlines, deliverables, notice periods, sustainability commitments, entitlements. It turns a contract's obligations from passive text into active operational tasks.
What obligation tracking manages
Each obligation is captured as a structured task: what needs to happen, by when, by whom, with what evidence. Alerts fire before deadlines; evidence gets logged on completion; portfolio-level reporting shows aggregate compliance posture.
Where it links to CPM
Obligation tracking is the workflow counterpart of Contract Performance Management. CPM handles the economic reconciliation; obligation tracking handles the operational commitments. Both operate on the same underlying structured contract data.
