A warm welcome to AbbVie and Marc von Allmen who will be joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2019 hosting round table discussions! Marc von Allmen- Kariuki is Director, Purchasing and Supplier Management EMEA. Marc is leading AbbVie’s EMEA’s procurement organization including Category- and Purchasing Management, supporting 50+ commercial affiliates. Marc invites You to join his […]
EBG | Summit News
Yara join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome Fernanda Lopes Larsen, Senior Vice President Indirect Procurement at Yara to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019. On March 28th, Fernanda will share her insights from a transformation journey in the making. At LinkedIn, Fernanda states she is “Passionate about Change & Innovation” and her keynote reflect just that. […]
Tradeshift join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
Tradeshift has been and is on a remarkable journey. Started by three Danish seeing the possibilities in a collaborative way of communicating between businesses and thus exchanging transactions too. EBG | Network welcome Tradeshift joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2019 as an Expert Organization – You will be able to sit down face-to-face and discuss […]
Volvo Cars join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
Once you embark on a transformation journey you have a before, during and – possibly – after. Or will there ever be an after? A continuous during and after more likely. EBG | Network are happy to welcome Frida Linder, Global Process Owner and Raza Syed, Director – Global Delivery Center of Excellence at Volvo […]
Ivalua join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network welcome Ivalua to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019, held March 28th in Stockholm. A one day event where end to end optimization is in focus – with all challenges and opportunities that include. In a market where there is still often a division between direct and indirect spend – Ivalua handle both. […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization
It is with great pleasure we present a truth seeking, forward and inward looking webinar session with great minds and years of experience coming together to reason about how to realize the promise Artificial Intelligence (AI) hold for procurement. Joining us for this webinar are Jon Hansen, Editor and lead writer for the Procurement Insights […]
EBG | Webinar: How Beckers Group procurement is driving sustainability change management
Welcome to a webinar where we put focus on how Beckers Group procurement is driving sustainability change management globally across the supply chain to create positive feedback. Date: May 17th 2018 Time: 11:00-11:45 CEST Place: Your computer/tablet/phone Language: English Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & EcoVadis >>Register here Multinational […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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: From re-active to pro-active spend visibility
EBG | Network are happy to be able to share the recorded webinar session held with Vattenfall, made possible by Qlik , in June. A big thank you to Sahar Shirzad and to everyone who joined (fully booked!). The recording View the recording below and stay tuned to upcoming Online Benchmark Sessions and webinars. Live […]
EBG Play: Spend control through rapid access to information
In a recent post EBG wrote about studies indicating that an average contract compliance lies at about 30%. How can that be? Why is it so much of company spend is neither under management, control nor influence? Systems not being “filled” with enough data, catalogs and other purchasing options is one key element but according […]
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 Play: Consumerization driving IT development and introverts reaching out
In a recent interview with Alexander Reay from ITOSDA, a non profit organization driven by peers within the IT development area, he told about his view on IT development and CIO challenges. There are hardly any parts of any business that is not IT dependent or IT driven. Yet IT is in many cases fighting […]
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 […]
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 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 Play: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?
There is a lot of talk about collaborative and connective relationships. It is fare to say that the possibilities today could enable a completely seamless and transparent approach to doing business. So are we? Take a look at and listen to two snapshots from this years Source to Pay Summit where Kate Vitasek gave a […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG Play: Swedish government agencies to save millions with eprocurement
For the past years the Swedish government have pushed lower administration costs in central government agencies. Starting off with a demand in 2008 saying that government authorities should be able to receive standard type e-invoices, and now continuing with a demand (with some exceptions) that says government authorities with more than 50 employees should purchase […]
About PEPPOL — PEPPOL | Pan-European Public Procurement Online
The broader vision of PEPPOL is that any company (incl. SMEs) in the EU can communicate electronically with any EU governmental institution for all procurement processes. The objective of the PEPPOL (Pan-European Public eProcurement On-Line) project is to set up a pan-European pilot solution that, conjointly with existing national solutions, facilitates EU-wide interoperable public eProcurement. […]
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 […]
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 | 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: 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: 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: 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 […]