EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Tradeshift joining Sourcing Outlook 2019 as an Expert Organization. You who join us on October 10th in Stockholm will be able to sit down during their round table discussions – aka Theme Discussions – and draw from both their and your peers experiences. Want to prepare? Take […]
EBG | Summit News
Tradeshift join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Tradeshift joining Sourcing Outlook 2019 as an Expert Organization. You who join us on October 10th in Stockholm will be able to sit down during their round table discussions – aka Theme Discussions – and draw from both their and your peers experiences. Want to prepare? Take […]
Determine, a Corcentric company join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG have followed them from a distance for years and are happy to now welcome Determine, a Corcentric company to Sourcing Outlook 2019. On October 10th sourcing and procurement professionals and experts meet to exchange know how and experiences. This is done in an informal yet to the point environment. You who join us can […]
h&z Management Consulting join Sourcing Outlook 2019
Who do you turn to conceptualize, guide, and support changes in your company? EBG | Network welcome h&z Management Consulting to Sourcing Outlook 2019. h&z Management Consulting has for 20 years acted as business transformers. Helping clients with everything from “fixing the basics” to developing digitalization roadmaps and beyond. At Sourcing Outlook you will be […]
Bureau van Dijk join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network welcome Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics company as an Expert Organization at this years Sourcing Outlook. Taking place on October 10th in Stockholm. About Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics company We capture and treat private company information for better decision making and increased efficiency, so we’re ideally suited to help […]
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: If all is about change – how can we make change more strategic
The art of change. The art of managing change. The art of managing strategic change. The art of change in a strategic way. Ask anyone and change management is on the top list of what is perceived the biggest challenge in any large organization. Why is it so hard to realize strategies? Strategies followed by […]
EBG | Play: Historic spend and future needs
EBG | Network want to send a big thank you to Irene Tibbling at Stora Enso who generously shared her sourcing and procurement visualization experiences. Also a big thank you to Qlik (in Swedish go to Qlik) who enabled the webinar to take place. Webinar recording Here you can view the recorded webinar session: Poll […]
EBG Play: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay
On November 17th 2015, at Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, procurement and finance professionals will meet up at Ariba Commerce Summit 2015. During this summit you can network with practitioners and experts and exchange experiences, learn about future procurement developments and today’s technology driven market. Listen to the below interview with Charlotte Wedell-Neergaard, Nordic […]
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 | How data driven are you?
Data is every where and data is everything yet if you ask most organizations they would probably state that still a lot of information “sit” in excel sheets and that much work is still managed manually. So how do you know to what extent increased automation and data insights can help improve efficiency and bottom […]
EBG Play: Outsoucing your sourcing?
It is not a new topic but it has been more and more discussed – even in procurement – what should you do yourself and what should you outsource? If procurement is only seen as an administrative service (as accounts payable, wrongly, for so many years has been seen as) then the math is probably […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG Play: Outsoucing your sourcing?
It is not a new topic but it has been more and more discussed – even in procurement – what should you do yourself and what should you outsource? If procurement is only seen as an administrative service (as accounts payable, wrongly, for so many years has been seen as) then the math is probably […]
EBG Play: Source to Pay panel discussion on how to develop world class compliance
There are numerous finance, procurement, CRM and other systems in the market. A lot has happened in the past, systems are merged as are companies. Finding the balance between knowing exactly what your organization is spending, how and why, is a challenge in itself. At Source to Pay Summit 2014 EBG brought together wise men […]
EBG Play: CPO Talk with Björn Stenecker – Category management influencing compliance strategies
What role will procurement take in future business development? No easy answers and for sure it differs depending on the type of business – but one thing is clear. We are seeing an externalization of business, having organizations invest many percent of revenue with external suppliers. What role should procurement take when value need to […]
EBG Play: From transactions to financial value ad
EBG first met with Pagero back in 2008. The era of e-invoicing for the masses was there – accounts payable managers were looking for ways to make those suppliers send e-invoices, the Norwegian government was looking for an approach to enforce e-invoicing to government authorities and the Danish government had already enforced business to government […]
Focus Area: Procurement
The New Economics of Commerce Revolutionizing business relationships from me to we
As old as the business itself is how to find ways to maximize profit, return on investment and maximized efficiency. Preferably with an as low effort as possible – if it is not clear that without the relationship we cannot survive, competition will take the best of us and no one else can step in […]
How to continuously improve your Source-to-Pay process?
Every organization have a source to pay process – defined and mapped or not. Each such process runs through numerous functions, touches on various KPIs and pre-defined strategies. Organizations that have taken charge over S2P processes are growing and the question might be why not more have done like Nokia, defining the process and flow […]
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: Sourcing
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 […]
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: 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: Deploying supplier CSR monitoring across a global purchasing organization
What do you think are sourcing and procurement key focus areas today and going ahead? Risk management is probably in the top areas as are reducing cost. If you ask where CSR and sustainability come in – how do you think those aspects rate? In a recent study made by Silf in Sweden, the number […]
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: 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 […]
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. […]