EBG | Network welcome GEP joining Sourcing Outlook 2019 as an Expert Organization. They bring international competence paired with Nordic and European insights to Stockholm on October 10th. Over the years, EBG have had the pleasure of introducing great international know how to our network of sourcing, procurement and finance professionals. To be able to […]
EBG | Summit News
GEP join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network welcome GEP joining Sourcing Outlook 2019 as an Expert Organization. They bring international competence paired with Nordic and European insights to Stockholm on October 10th. Over the years, EBG have had the pleasure of introducing great international know how to our network of sourcing, procurement and finance professionals. To be able to […]
Danfoss join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network welcome Claus Blæsbjerg Poulsen, Head of Risk and Contract Management at Danfoss to Sourcing Outlook 2019. Together with Omeed Mosavat at Resilience360, Claus invite you to join his round table discussions during the day. Learn more about Resilience360 here. Holistic supply chain risk management The below topic will be brought up by […]
Kodiak Rating join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network welcome Kodiak Rating to Sourcing Outlook 2019, taking place in Stockholm on October 10th. At Sourcing Outlook You who join us will be able to have informal yet to the point experience exchange with Kodiak Rating and your peers. They invite you to join their Theme Discussions, which from experience will be […]
Roima join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network are glad to be able to welcome Roima Intelligence to Sourcing Outlook 2019. On October 10th you will be able to meet with Roima Intelligence and make sure you know what they could help your organization achieve in a better, faster and more stable way. About Roima Roima Intelligence’s mission is to […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How do you manage Business Control in transformation?
Welcome to a session enabled by Qlik where Marcus Sjöholm, VP SML Business Control at Volvo Group will share his vision how companies and individuals can – and will need – to free up time in order to gain greater business control, enable true end to end business collaboration and create value. Date: September 3rd […]
EBG | Webinar: How do you digitize your sourcing strategy and operations?
Discussing how to digitize an entire organization is tiresome to anyone. Breaking it down and making a huge topic more understandable is important! In this upcoming session EBG | Network and Basware invite You to learn more about digitizing eSourcing in general and using eAuctions in particular. Why? Like Jacob Gorm Larsen, Director of Digital […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG Play: Swedish government agencies to save millions with eprocurement
For the past years the Swedish government have pushed lower administration costs in central government agencies. Starting off with a demand in 2008 saying that government authorities should be able to receive standard type e-invoices, and now continuing with a demand (with some exceptions) that says government authorities with more than 50 employees should purchase […]
EBG | Play: Structuring global procurement
It is no easy task creating and managing global organizations. It is no easy task managing global procurement organizations – end-to-end. This is why it is extra inspiring to listen to Tamara Braun, CPO at SAP sharing how they have chosen to structure their global procurement organization. How they have chosen to set up their […]
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 […]
CFO Talk with Nuno Guerreiro at Sonae about touchless processes and the need for stakeholder management
As downstream Shared Service Centers find themselves managing numerous errors, realizing the need for upstream process development, the question is – how do you enforce that? If touchless processes are the goal – in what ways do you influence metrics and behavior in sourcing and procurement departments? Nuno Guerreiro, Head of Accounts Payable at Sonae […]
EBG Play: The promise in “e” is the promise of any future strategy
First published in May 2013 – this interview is still valid and we’d like to push it again. Quite often discussions about e-procurement and e-invoicing tends to focus around – the e – rather than the process itself. E as in electronic as in systems and IT. It is however clear that “e” is more […]
EBG | Play: Aligning procurement & finance reducing wasteful spending
Aligning procurement and finance is an always returning topic within EBG | Network. Separate functions, KPIs, systems and how about organizations and even countries. It is not an easy task but the outcome can make huge difference. Difference on bottom line figures, difference enabling an organization to use correct data growing further and difference ensuring […]
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: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?
There is a lot of talk about collaborative and connective relationships. It is fare to say that the possibilities today could enable a completely seamless and transparent approach to doing business. So are we? Take a look at and listen to two snapshots from this years Source to Pay Summit where Kate Vitasek gave a […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | III
On March 12th professionals from across the globe will meet online to learn from each other about what trends may mean now and ahead for procurement. Jon Hansen is gathering intelligence leading up to the webinar and you too can draw from those insights via Beyond trends form industry experts | I and Beyond trends […]
Ragn-Sells, Sweden: Purchase-to-pay optimation
In the following article, Leila Immonen at Ragn-Sells shares her experiences in optimising accounts payable through purchase-to-pay. The company introduced both an electronic invoice process system and a procurement system. The change process included 15 legal companies simultaneously. One major sucess factor has been involving both finance and procurement introducing scanning and e-invoices as well […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 […]
A thinner line between direct and indirect procurement
When we talk about spend we still talk about direct and indirect spend. The latter being what is not directly used in a production line. The latter still not – in our mind – seen as the strategic asset it is and increasingly will be. Increasingly though that definition is becoming obsolete. What do we […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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, […]
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 | Play: What is your contract management status?
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
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: Beckers Groups sustainability change management journey
How to move from silo CSR and sustainability code of conduct website statements to active performance measures and supplier collaboration activities is increasingly important for most large organizations. EBG | Network was happy to be able to share – in much detail – the work made by Beckers Group and not the least Thomas Lüder, […]
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: Aker Solutions: Reputational and financial risk control
It is always a treat hearing real life experiences from different industries and with different angles based on the same premises. That today a lot of doing business has to do with managing and developing external supplier relationships. EBG | Network is very happy that Hilde Kjensjord, Senior Manager, SCM Governance, Risk & Compliance at […]