What if you could just implement system support and that was it. All problems solved. All data harvested, interpreted and used at its best. What if. Having gathered competences within sourcing, procurement and finance for 10 years – EBG | Network know it is not so easy. The terms people – process – technology have […]
EBG | Summit News
People, process and technology at Sourcing Outlook 2019
What if you could just implement system support and that was it. All problems solved. All data harvested, interpreted and used at its best. What if. Having gathered competences within sourcing, procurement and finance for 10 years – EBG | Network know it is not so easy. The terms people – process – technology have […]
Strategy execution a Sourcing Outlook 2019
For sure all have experienced that new management presenting what surely must be the best possible new organization structure. Best new way of improving business efficiency and effect. De-centralized becoming centralized – or the opposite. Outsourced being in-sourced – or the opposite. Local and regional becoming global – or the opposite. And so on. But […]
NCC join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome NCC to Sourcing Outlook 2019. NCC is a construction and property development company in the Nordic Region. With annual sales of over SEK 57 billion and approx. 16.500 employees. Emma Papakosta, Director & Head of Purchasing Systems is joining Sourcing Outlook as a Theme Discussion moderator and she […]
Digital strategy, analytics and operating models at Sourcing Outlook 2019
Digitalization and data insights has been a hot topic for a long time. Turning paper into data, data into insights, automating manual processes and increasing ways of acting upon real time information. But what is technology and automation without a clear goal, a path to follow and ways to ensure actions generate value? That sourcing […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Supply Chain Transparency – The Next P2P Evolution
Welcome to a webinar exploring what an end-to-end transparent supply chain may mean to you and your business growth. Today there are endless discussions about digitizing all aspects of doing business – but what does it really encompass? During this webinar we aim to find out! Date: October 17th 2019Time: 3:00-3:45 PM CESTPlace: Your computer/tablet/phoneLanguage: […]
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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Interview Part II | Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer, Tradeshift
A recent conversation with an experienced person within Business Control again opened up our eyes for the lost opportunities when people work in silos. Business opportunities, revenue and margins lost because processes and use of data is not aligned across functions and in-between organizations. Can we find a solution over an interview and upcoming webinar […]
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: 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: The Lundbeck business service center and Ariba story
We live in a rapidly changing world and businesses need to stay agile. Finding ways to lower cost and ad value is on all businesses agenda. Actually doing so is another question. Lundbeck has undertaken several steps to ensure they enable the strategy set. “We want to invest significantly in growth opportunities, maximize the growth […]
EBG Play: 7 out of 10 or 46% of spend contingent workforce?
Winning the talent war and at the same time reducing cost does not seemingly go hand in hand. Companies have found ways to reduce wage costs by centralizing and outsourcing HR, finance, procurement and many more functions. The wage arbitrage game however is apparently coming to an end. A contingent workforce may historically have been […]
EBG Play: CFO Talk with Mikael Ebefors – Shared Competence Center’s part of end-to-end control enablement
Centralizing finance has been a strategy for many years now. The initial reasons are often to reduce administration costs and lower wage arbitrage as well as enable transactional control. Moving from a pure transactional perspective place other opportunities and challenges in the center such as: How can downstream accounts payable help develop upstream procurement and […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG Play: Working capital the essence of procure to pay efficiency
Ravindra Rao is Finance Director & Global PMO Leader at Honeywell. His knowledge in cross functional, cross organizational, cross industry process development comes from years of experiences. For ten years he has been working at Honeywell with finance transformation. Their strategy has been to pay vendors on time and work with both internal and external […]
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 […]
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 […]
EBG | Play: Online Goods Receipt Q&A
A big congratulations to Ann-Louise Hallding, Sourcing & Procurement Process Development Specialist at Telia Company who – on February 17th – won a Sourcing & Procurement Hero Award for her fantastic internal job aiming to improve the companies procurement user experience. Telia Company CPO Jarkki Sakki gave Ann-Louise an award for ” Achievements in deliver value […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG Play: What is procurement transformation?
Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]
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 […]
EBG Interview: AstraZenecas road to P2P tool implementation success
It is not even given that all large organizations have a dedicated e-procurement tool beyond SAP SRM or other ERP centric procurement tools. That became evident at this years Source to Pay Summit 2014. How ever, once you have decided to implement a tool, perhaps as in the case of AstraZeneca in several countries – […]
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 […]
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: 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: 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 […]
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. […]