For a small company the past weeks have been a nightmare. As for all others. The uncertainties with the COVID-19 virus are shaking the world we live in. Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 will be postponed until October 7th 2020 in Stockholm, to meet physically again and learn from each others experiences. EBG | Network […]
EBG | Summit News
Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 | October 7th | Stockholm
For a small company the past weeks have been a nightmare. As for all others. The uncertainties with the COVID-19 virus are shaking the world we live in. Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 will be postponed until October 7th 2020 in Stockholm, to meet physically again and learn from each others experiences. EBG | Network […]
JAGGAER join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
A warm welcome to JAGGAER joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 as an Expert Organization. You who join will be able to attend their Theme Discussions – round table discussions – and learn and discuss what autonomous procurement just might mean to you. Especially great is it to see the focus on HOW to move […]
Determine, a Corcentric company join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
A warm welcome to Determine, a Corcentric company joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2020. “You really manage to gather all in one room” is feedback EBG | Network have received previously. And it is for sure not a one person nor one company job to improve efficiency and effect from an end to end perspective! […]
Taulia & CORE Process join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
Taulia and CORE Process join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 March 19th in Stockholm and invite you to attend their round table discussions. One of the clearest aspect where there can be a disconnect between up- and downstream sourcing, procurement and finance processes are paying suppliers. Join Sebastian Chilvers, European Sales Director at Taulia Inc. […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Finance and procurement – a fine romance or the best of enemies?
How to Leverage Automation to Build a Bridge between Both Traditionally, in most organizations, the relationship between finance and procurement has been ad-hoc, and not strategic. Even though the two functions are closely linked together and have mutual goals of savings, control and visibility, oftentimes there is tension between the two departments due to historical […]
EBG | Webinar: How do you lead the digital transformation of your supply chains successfully?
A hint – it is not all about technology! All of you are surrounded by data and are increasingly in need of using that data across the organization. Most of you are seeking to digitize supply chain and procurement but are most likely not ”there” just yet. Many of you have been responsible for or have […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
CPO Talk with Dr. Marcell Vollmer, CPO at SAP about aligning from source to pay
It is fair to say that the possibilities in keeping control and gather the facts in any type supply chain has increased dramatically past ten years. At the same time, more of businesses have been externalized and finance and procurement as we once new them does not look the same. What we buy and how, […]
EBG Play: 10 advice when sending e-invoices to your customers
Ever heard of buyers asking their suppliers for more structured invoice data? The debate about how to get suppliers to send e-invoices has been loud and clear for the past decade, at least from the buyer side. The benefits are clear on the buyer side but what about the supplier side? When the buyer side […]
EBG Play: EFFSO about the development in category management BPO in the Nordics
Outsourcing has been a part of strategies in a number of business areas due to different reasons. One main reason being to focus on core business processes and let other professionals take care of manual and transactional processes and flows. One, perhaps even bigger reason, has been to reduce cost – cutting wage arbitrage has […]
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 […]
EBG | Play: Building Partner Enabled Digital Offerings through AI
Facts and fiction. It is evident – through numerous research reports – that procurement and supply chain are not using for instance Artificial Intelligence in any major way. Yet. McKinsey state that a mere 2% of respondents have a supply chain oriented digital strategy. Deloitte state “The level and speed of digitalisation across procurement functions […]
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: Source to Pay
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 […]
EBG Play: Key Elements in a global OneFinance transformation program
What importance does SLAs, service level agreements, have? Importance to those buying or selling the service, to those using the service? In a world that has become SLA driven, and not necessary in the best of ways, the key note given by Kate Vitasek and Henric Häggquist at Source to Pay Summit 2014 was very […]
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: Arjan van Weele about the need for change
He is a household name within procurement and supply chain – Arjan van Weele. He holds the (parttime) NEVI-Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management, at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS). Arjan acts as an independent boardroom consultant to many large companies on procurement strategy and governance issues. He […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Key elements in a global OneFinance transformation change program
Microsoft has been on a journey towards perfecting their OneFinance transformation program. A global journey set to create efficient processes, effective controls and clear roles and responsibilities within finance and procurement. We recognize their starting point: huge amount of employees (92 000 at their starting point), fragmented finance, accounting and procurement functions and non standardized […]
EBG Play: How do you measure procurement?
When talking about how to develop procurement further the issue of how to measure sucess is one of the most valid topics. Savings of course being and having been the number one metric it is still a challenge to truly measure both people and processes. At EBG’s annual Source 2 Pay Summit a number of […]
EBG Play: A holistic approach to supply chain connectivity
They talk about a shift in the market and they do their best to make a shift happen. Tradeshift is sprung from a Danish government initiative back in 2005 enabling the Danish government to make it mandatory to send electronic messages to the Danish government. Having followed the guys behind Tradeshift since the beginning it […]
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: 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 | 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: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating
How do you scale solutions you already have or consider growing that platform of capabilities you wish you had? EBG | Network tuned in with Sam Jenks and Ashley Stephenson at Kodiak Rating to hear their view on how to enable procurement to utilize the possibilities out there. It is not shortage of technology that […]
Scope and type supply chain risk monitored
For the third year in a row, EBG | Network are happy to invite you to join a supply chain risk management overview webinar. Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, Global Operations at Nokia share her insights during a riskmethods enabled webinar. There is still time to register go here to learn […]