It has been almost a year since the first Online Benchmark Sessions hosted by EBG saw the light. During two days and five sessions people from across the Nordics came together to listen to and share insights into how sourcing, procurement and finance processes and strategies are evolved on an organizational and process related level. […]
End to end transformation
EBG | Webinar: Historic spend and future needs
Imagine you could learn from history and predict the future..this is something many organizations want to achieve and EBG | Network are happy that Irene Tibbling at Stora Enso will share how they are visualizing historic spend and forecasting future needs. Date: October 13th Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM CEST Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: […]
UPM and Finnair to Source 2 Pay Summit 2017
EBG | Network are very happy to welcome two experienced managers to Source 2 Pay Summit 2017. Nina Kivioja at UPM and Kati Leppänen at Finnair both have long experience from shaping, measuring and developing sourcing and procurement processes and organizations further. During Source 2 Pay Summit 2017, Nina and Kati will moderate Theme Discussions […]
Prevent or react on fraud and cybercrime?
Before the summer, EBG held a webinar together with OpusCapita focusing on risk and fraud within the procure to pay and cash management end-to-end flow. There are numerous research and studies highlighting that fraud is an increasing reality. The Association for financial professionals say that 62% of their study respondents claim they were targets of […]
Vestas and DONG Energy to Source 2 Pay Summit 2017
The hard but rewarding job of creating next years Source 2 Pay Summit has started. EBG are inviting experienced managers with a story to tell and questions to ask. First to be welcomed are Nicola Gianluca Raimondi, Indirect Global Sourcing Senior Director at Vestas and Brian Frederiksen, Manager in Procurement Excellence at DONG Energy. Industries […]
Online Goods Receipt Q&A Benchmark
Welcome to EBG | Network and Online Goods Receipt Q&A Benchmark! EBG have long experience from creating both real life meetings and online interviews and webinars. One thing is clear – there is a greater need for experience exchange than real life conferences can meet. And there are more people than usually go to a […]
EBG | Webinar: Structuring global procurement
As within finance, procurement increasingly centralize both strategic and operational sourcing as well as procurement activities. It is recognized that end-to-end visibility and control is needed in order to leverage on purchasing power, achieve sustainable savings and mitigate risk. Date: September 30th Time: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM CEST Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of […]
EBG Play: How to create value rather than extract it
If you take a look around and read most articles about how procurement is evolving or want to evolve, how finance want to develop and the way businesses need to find their way forward – there is one thing in common. Most focus on how to create value rather than extract it, extracting value is […]
Follow up from a spend analytics webinar
A few hours back EBG | Network finished a fully booked spend analytics webinar featuring Sahar Shirzad, BI Analyst, Procurement Development at Vattenfall. She shared how Vattenfall have developed their spend analytics using Qlik to help them on the tool side. The webinar was fully booked which is no surprise for EBG. Finding ways to […]
Reflections from Source 2 Pay Summit 2016
When you work for a really long time with an event it becomes a part of you and when it is over you are somewhat left in a void. That void is however quickly filled with impressions and ideas for the future, just like it is for us at EBG after Source 2 Pay Summit. […]
EBG | Webinar: The Vattenfall story going from re-active to pro-active spend visibility
This webinar is – no surprise – very popular and almost fully booked! EBG know from experience that a number of those registered at the end will not attend the live webinar and therefor allow the webinar to be more than fully booked. In case all try to log in, the first 100 attendees will […]
EBG | Education: Practical change and transformation management
EBG are well known to enable experience exchange among peers. EBG are also well known to create flawless experiences with the focus on the right things – sharing know-how, getting to a result, being concrete and taking an end-to-end perspective. A while back EBG conducted a survey among Swedish procurement and finance organizations to find […]
EBG Play: Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark
Following the first day of sourcing and procurement benchmark, the second day of EBGs first Online Benchmark sessions were about the “other” side of the puzzle – finance and accounting. Finding ways to reduce administrative costs, improve efficiency and effectiveness have been a priority for a long time. Centralizing, captive or not, possibly outsourcing, and […]
EBG Play: Sourcing & Procurement BPO Benchmark
Almost six months ago, EBG held the first Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Sourcing & Procurement BPO and Finance & Accounting BPO. Or – really – we focused on how large organizations tend to develop their operations and beyond. Within finance and accounting there has been a trend for a long time to centralize and […]
EBG | Webinar: Avoiding risk and fraud from a cash management and purchase to pay perspective
Date: Wednesday April 6th Time: 11:00-11:55 AM CEST (12:00-12:55 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >Click here to register There are numerous research and studies highlighting that fraud is an increasing reality. The Association for financial professionals say that 62% of […]
EBG Play | How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?
Getting an understanding into an increasingly important and increasingly global supply chain is and will be even more significant. Looking at the progress of EBG | Network over the past five years, the strategic increase of a holistic approach to sourcing, procurement and finance is the most apparent. It seems most companies today know that […]
EBG Play | Changing transaction platform with 170+ countries
Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
Source 2 Pay Summit 2016 | Collaboration | Trust | Sustainability
It is that time of the year – we are getting closer to the annual Source 2 Pay Summit during which EBG | Network gather managers from across businesses, across countries and across industries. Our philosophy is simple yet effective – allow experiences managers to share ideas and exchange knowledge with peers and expert organizations […]
CPO Outlook online and free of charge
Welcome to EBG | Network and Online CPO Outlook February 18th 2016! EBG have long experience from creating both real life meetings and online interviews and webinars. One thing is clear – there is a greater need for experience exchange than real life conferences can meet. And there are more people than usually go to […]
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!
EBG | Network would like to wish you a calm and friendly Christmas and New Years Eve. We hope that 2015 has delivered as you wished and that 2016 is appearing to be even better. We hope to see you irl or online many times next year and hope to be able to inspire and […]
EBG | Play: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]