EBG | Network are happy to welcome Coupa to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019. Offering an all-in-one business spend management platform it will be interesting to learn what will be discussed during the round table discussions Coupa will be hosting. When Coupa shared some of their know how with EBG back in 2013 they shared […]
EBG | Summit News
Coupa join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome Coupa to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019. Offering an all-in-one business spend management platform it will be interesting to learn what will be discussed during the round table discussions Coupa will be hosting. When Coupa shared some of their know how with EBG back in 2013 they shared […]
Making summits with passion
It has almost been ten years since EBG saw the light of day. Since the start we have aimed to gather cross function, cross industry and thought provoking know how. Not thought provoking for the sake of it but since we understood early how silo functions operate even though business is about collaboration. Source 2 […]
GEP join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome GEP to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019. The idea of a one stop go to partner that help you reach strategic, operational and financial objectives is the corner stone of GEP. GEP have three pillars. Strategic advice and consultancy. A unified source to pay platform including software covering […]
Synertrade join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome Synertrade to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019, March 28th in Stockholm. They bring a cloud-based Source-to-Pay platform and extensive experience from numerous Nordic and European clients to the summit. About Source 2 Pay Summit In March it will be the ninth annual time EBG bring together sourcing, procurement […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG Webinar | Beyond Trends: “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 | Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Management Best Practices: Nokia
Apart from meeting face to face and being able to ask each other questions and listen to each others experiences – meeting online is a great way to increase knowledge in different areas. EBG are happy to present an opportunity to learn more about supply chain risk management from Nokia. Managing risk is a top […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG Play: Online S&P and F&A Benchmark Sessions
Thank you for being interested in all or most of each days Online Sourcing & Procurement and Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark Sessions held in October 2015. EBG are very happy with the result, happy with the experiences given and happy with the interaction so many showed! You can access the recordings from all sessions […]
EBG Play: Basware interview about e-invoicing and e-procurement trends
Something is cooking, the traditional “moving-what-used-to-be-paper”-documents around in an organization is transforming into ways to use supplier and buyer relationships, processes and pure cash in more efficient and more valuable ways. To the surface comes realizing that many processes cut through organizations leaving room for errors and missed opportunities. Basware is one of the […]
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: 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 […]
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: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
“Artificial intelligence is not purely “artificial.” The ideal approach amplifies human intuition with machine intelligence to create a powerful multiplier effect. That’s augmented intelligence.” A statement made by Qlik with the headline “From BI to “AI””. EBG | Network hosted a webinar together with Paul Winsor at Qlik. The topic what augmented intelligence mean within the […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: 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 | Interview: Part II | Visibility, control, and compliance by digitising Source-to-pay processes
In the second interview part, interviewing Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development at Zycus, we continue to discuss challenges and opportunities advancing procurement digitization. Or – rather – gathering and sharing those huge amounts of data floating around in any large company and making the best of it. Richard come from years of working with procurement […]
EBG Play: Taking a holistic approach to procurement
It is easier said than done. Multiple stakeholders, multiple markets, multiple systems – and yet – it is getting easier to achieve end-to-end control from source to pay. In the below interview we “meet up” with Regine Böhm-Gams at Capgemini IBX Business Network to learn more about their view on procurement development. EBG follow the […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 | 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 | Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
As supply chains become increasingly global, diverse, complex and important – so does calculating and reducing risk. Most procurement and supply chain professionals probably recognize this as one of your top priorities? And would you agree that it is becoming increasingly important with multiple ways of analyzing and communicating possible risk scenarios – before they […]
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 | 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, […]
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. […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
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: 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: 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: 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 […]