It was a handful, we give you that – as it so often is doing business today in a global environment. We were scheduled to meet online from Canada, India, UK, Sweden and the US – preferably on web camera. We almost made it! What we were able to achieve is to have several insights […]
EBG | Summit News
SAP Ariba join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
There has been an explosion of developments within the solution and services industry. Just when we got used to thinking about the cloud, other ways of thinking about digitization became household – what will be next? EBG | Network welcome SAP Ariba to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019, taking place March 28th in Stockholm. What […]
Visma Commerce join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
A warm welcome to Visma Commerce joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2019! EBG have learned from and worked with Visma before and they bring experiences from both private and public sector to the summit. About Visma Commerce With our eprocurement cloud platform your company can realize savings within the processes of source-to-pay. We believe in […]
Essity join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
No one can have escaped the buzz surrounding digitization and digitalization of business processes, services and products. Still – research indicate that within some areas – contrary to for instance marketing – a forward looking digital strategy is almost non existing. What of it? The same research highlight strong correlation to EBIT growth when digital […]
Statkraft join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
A warm welcome to Margit E. Granheim, Vice President FPS – Group procurement system and processes at Statkraft joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2019 moderating Theme Discussions. EBG have had the pleasure of seeing Statkraft for a few years at our annual conference and it was a treat learning about the P2P related work they […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How are procurement, finance, and treasury stronger together in a networked world?
Working as a procurement and finance professional today mean overseeing huge amounts of data, several cross function processes and infinite amounts of people who need to act in order to reach set targets. Welcome to a webinar where we will aim to take a 360 view on business development from a procurement – finance and […]
EBG Webinar | Beyond Trends: “10 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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG Play | Changing transaction platform with 170+ countries
Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management Best Practices: Nokia
A big thank you to Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management at Nokia for generously sharing how they are stepping up their supply chain risk management ways of working. In a session enabled by riskmethods you can learn both from Tua, riskmethods and from those attending live. Supply Chain Risk Management in […]
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: How to manage buying of complex categories in eProcurement
EBG recently hosted a webinar featuring Martin Casserdahl at OpusCapita sharing thoughts and ideas about how to manage buying of complex categories in eprocurement. This specific question was evident at EBGs spring summit Source 2 Pay Summit too where one question arose touching upon this topic: How can an eprocurement system manage both those wanting […]
EBG | Play: Making sense of procurement and AP data
A great number of people signed up to join a webinar named “”How do you make sense of procurement and accounts payable data?” where Jereme Pineda at Basware shared his insights into the matter. From a finance perspective cost is a solid way of analyzing purchase to pay outcome, but how about looking at it […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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 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: 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 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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
RT: Intersecting Procurement and Finance: Top Trends for 2013
Ever heard “thats finances headache” or “thats all about procurement” even though you know it is interlinked? We hear it all the time, both from end users and professionals such as consultants and system vendors. Because of that it is even more thrilling when a blog focusing on spend management mentions trends where procurement and […]
EBG | Play: A toolbox for measurable purchase to pay automation
Hands up how many of you have had, have or will have a digitalization vision or premonition? For many that lie in the future but let’s say anything “e” in doing business? Anything electronic supporting business transactions, processes and ways of doing business is not new anymore yet reaching those visions may still prove to […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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. […]
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: 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: 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: 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. […]
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 […]