EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2019 and EBG look forward to learning more about how sustainability take an increasingly bigger part on company development. Because it is not easy. You have multiple layers of people, data and suppliers and gaining insight is not always easy. How often you you do online supplier reviews? How are your […]
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EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2019 and EBG look forward to learning more about how sustainability take an increasingly bigger part on company development. Because it is not easy. You have multiple layers of people, data and suppliers and gaining insight is not always easy. How often you you do online supplier reviews? How are your […]
SAP Ariba join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
There has been an explosion of developments within the solution and services industry. Just when we got used to thinking about the cloud, other ways of thinking about digitization became household – what will be next? EBG | Network welcome SAP Ariba to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019, taking place March 28th in Stockholm. What […]
Visma Commerce join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
A warm welcome to Visma Commerce joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2019! EBG have learned from and worked with Visma before and they bring experiences from both private and public sector to the summit. About Visma Commerce With our eprocurement cloud platform your company can realize savings within the processes of source-to-pay. We believe in […]
Essity join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
No one can have escaped the buzz surrounding digitization and digitalization of business processes, services and products. Still – research indicate that within some areas – contrary to for instance marketing – a forward looking digital strategy is almost non existing. What of it? The same research highlight strong correlation to EBIT growth when digital […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How are procurement, finance, and treasury stronger together in a networked world?
Working as a procurement and finance professional today mean overseeing huge amounts of data, several cross function processes and infinite amounts of people who need to act in order to reach set targets. Welcome to a webinar where we will aim to take a 360 view on business development from a procurement – finance and […]
EBG Webinar | Beyond Trends: “10 Transformational Realities” redefining procurement
EBG | Network invite you to an insightful online session grounded in a forward looking paper. What will impact procurement the most ahead? What does that mean to You working with procurement? Take the time to pause from your here and now tasks and join us and a knowledgeable group of professionals and look ahead. […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG Play: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail
EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
EBG Play | Shaping a dynamic and proactive procurement organization
Following a very interesting webinar held by Peter Böhm at Trelleborg Industrial Solutions an english summary of this Swedish webinar is in place. Peter shared how he has aimed at developing a dynamic and proactive procurement organization and shared how he measure and organize in order to achieve set targets. Procurement Directors wanting to lead […]
EBG Play: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective
Aligning procurement targets to company targets, supporting the business and delivering results. Easily said but not so easily achieved? In far too many situations procurement and finance functions find themselves not reaching set targets, or trying to reach targets that simply aren’t aligned with overall business targets. What happen then is frustrated managers and even […]
EBG Play | Beyond Trends: “10 Transformational Realities” redefining procurement
It was a handful, we give you that – as it so often is doing business today in a global environment. We were scheduled to meet online from Canada, India, UK, Sweden and the US – preferably on web camera. We almost made it! What we were able to achieve is to have several insights […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
Before Easter, EBG | Network hosted a webinar enabled by riskmethods featuring Husqvarna Group focusing on how they have been and are developing ways to manage risk in their supply chain. Benjamin A Sutherland at Husqvarna group and Heiko Schwarz at riskmethods share their insights. Below is the recorded webinar session for you to view. […]
EBG | Play: Global CSR Risk & Performance: Insights From The 2017 Index
What happens if you decide to take a deep look into years of quality data based on thousands and thousands of companies actual performances? Great insights of course. EcoVadis did just that and gathered the data into a first Global CSR Risk & Performance index. EBG | Network are happy to share the recorded webinar […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Interview: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
Organizations are striving to increase an understanding of company spend, ways to improve innovation speed and company capital and cash. Procurement have for a long time struggled to highlight the possible impact the know how they possess can have on all of the above. Challenges visualizing what is and what if can be part of […]
EBG Play: The Hackett Group on world class finance and procurement performance
It is always a pleasure listening to consultants with a clear holistic approach to procurement and finance development. Tom Bangemann at The Hackett Group is one of those who are able to showcase why procurement is getting more strategic interest than before, why wage arbitrage and short term cost reductions will soon come to an […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | I
On March 12th, EBG | Network, Procurement Insights and Zycus gather forces and bring you a panel of experienced professionals. They will be giving you their views on what current and future trends mean for procurement. Here you can learn more about the webinar on March 12th and register David Loseby, one of the panelists […]
Time to gather for Source to Pay Summit 2015!
Every year for the past four years, EBG | Network have created a cross functional, cross organizational conference day based upon the fact that in order to take control over both the physical and financial supply chain – an end to end approach is needed. This is not rocket science but take a look at […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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. This webinar is fully booked – the first 100 who log in can join the live […]
LinkedIn: Is one keystone to success of change missing?
”What’s in it for me?” In every sucessful change management strategy that little sentence is prepared for. Thinking that change in behaviour is possible without it is vane. However, a little note to that very important understanding: What’s in it for me equals what’s in it for me in any relationship – between manager and […]
LinkedIn: Tail End Spend: How does your organization manage this spend?
Having followed this discussion for some days, let’s share some insights. Tail spend. Maverick spend. And then some headache. EBG have yet to meet with an organisation that has taken control over their tail end spend. We have heard about the 80/20 rule for so long we have stopped asking questions about the rest of […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
Sourcing Outlook recap and Post Summit Report
The first Sourcing Outlook took place in Stockholm end October 2017. Creating and hosting a second annual conference wasn’t an easy decision – it had to be with a focus that felt fresh and to-the-point. Sourcing success due to business – buyer and supplier collaboration EBG decided from the get go that one aspect had […]
EBG | Webinar: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
Transforming the supply chain process with augmented intelligence – a far stretch from the reality many organizations face today? Data is the lifeblood of business in the information age. Hence, gathering and analyzing mission-critical data from different sources is increasingly important. Vast amounts of business-critical data reside in silos, is manually handled and reactively communicated. […]
EBG | Play: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization
End September great minds met online to discuss digitalization in general and Artificial Intelligence impact on procurement specifically. Why so? On April 10th 2018, 25 European countries signed a Declaration of cooperation on Artificial Intelligence. It builds further on the achievements and investments of the European research and business community in AI. Given this announcement, […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
EBG | Play: Global CSR Risk & Performance: Insights From The 2017 Index
What happens if you decide to take a deep look into years of quality data based on thousands and thousands of companies actual performances? Great insights of course. EcoVadis did just that and gathered the data into a first Global CSR Risk & Performance index. EBG | Network are happy to share the recorded webinar […]
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 […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | IV
An online session is a perfect way to gather know how from across the world. To enable knowledgeable professionals to share extensive experiences without leaving the office. On March 12th Jon Hansen, Procurement Insights, gather industry experts such as David Loseby, CPO, Advisor, Author and Global Board of Trustees Member of CIPS to discuss procurement […]
EBG | Play: Munters Europe share Supply Chain Risk Management experiences
It was a pleasure sharing supply chain risk management know how from Stefan Måhl, VP Global Sourcing at Munters Europe and that of Rolf Zimmer, Managing Director at riskmethods. It was also a pleasure highlighting the experiences shared by you who joined in live – giving a live webinar an extra value. You may also […]