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
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 Play | Supply Chain Transparency..
..the Next P2P Evolution – a webinar hosted by EBG | Network enabled by Tradeshift recently and below you can view it all over again. Mike Jud and Jonathan Laverentz shared their different “up” and “down” stream experiences from years of working with different type organizations and technology. The first reflection being that seeing supply […]
EBG | Play: Public e-procurement success factors
In the early spring EBG | Network held a couple of Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Public Sector Tender and Procurement development. Most of what EBG do is done in English – however it became fairly clear that the public sector target group wanted us to do the sessions in Swedish, so sorry to the […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: 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: 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 […]
How can anyone still question P2P and S2P importance?
Sure, I admit, I haven’t worked neither in a large procurement or finance department nor have I been dependent on KPIs that clearly tells me what I need to do and what not to do. But still – how can we still be debating if end-to-end support and control is a valid business choice? Who […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Benefit realization – How do you demonstrate success of you P2P system roll out
The decision is taken – let’s go for a p2p-system roll-out to ensure control and business agility. There are numerous decisions to make that relates to both suppliers and buyers. And how do you prove an effect? At S2P Summit 2014 Tommy Nielsen, Source 2 Pay Global Programme Director at AstraZeneca invites you to join […]
How to secure compliance and minimize leakage in the source-to-pay process
Let’s face the facts. You may have done the mapping of processes and transaction flows. You have categorized suppliers and started to consolidate them. You have purchased a system and written the policy. And yet – you do not get the results you aimed for. Why? There are no simple answers to why! Is it […]
LinkedIn: What do procurement professionals value in working with vendor suppliers?
What is most valued among the respondees to this discussion question? There are many answers so the questions touches upon an area of interest. Some of the answers: “I’d suggest that a supplier who helps you achieve your client’s goals whilst legitimately maximising their return from you would be ideal. Namely, consistently providing what 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: 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 […]
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 […]