What would you do if you knew your organization need to speed up from idea to execution? From R&D to market readiness to delivery to and communication with the end customer? What would it mean for your sourcing and procurement strategies and operations if you knew you had to re-think your end to end strategies, […]
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Electrolux join Sourcing Outlook 2019
What would you do if you knew your organization need to speed up from idea to execution? From R&D to market readiness to delivery to and communication with the end customer? What would it mean for your sourcing and procurement strategies and operations if you knew you had to re-think your end to end strategies, […]
Volvo Cars join Sourcing Outlook 2019
How many of you face markets in change? The need to adapt to new ways of working, to customer desires you need to adapt to, to technology development you cannot ignore and to a world where it is not a “nice thing” to be sustainable in every aspect but a must. EBG | Network are […]
Resilience360 join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network welcome Resilience360 joining Sourcing Outlook 2019, October 10th in Stockholm as an Expert Organization. At Sourcing Outlook EBG take an overview over sourcing and procurement strategies, operations and governance in practice. Through networking, round table discussions, keynote presentations and focus sessions EBG enable You who join to get maximum value over your […]
Follow up after Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
A huge thank you to all who came to the 9th version of Source 2 Pay Summit in Stockholm! It is a pleasure seeing all the connections taking place, all the conversations and all the experience exchange. Informal and to the point. All share more or less the same challenges! Post Summit Report Take a […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How do you digitize your sourcing strategy and operations?
Discussing how to digitize an entire organization is tiresome to anyone. Breaking it down and making a huge topic more understandable is important! In this upcoming session EBG | Network and Basware invite You to learn more about digitizing eSourcing in general and using eAuctions in particular. Why? Like Jacob Gorm Larsen, Director of Digital […]
EBG | Webinar: Source-to-pay digital transformation – keep up or get left behind?
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 and finance perspective. […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Munters Europe share Supply Chain Risk Management experiences
It was a pleasure sharing supply chain risk management know how from Stefan Måhl, VP Global Sourcing at Munters Europe and that of Rolf Zimmer, Managing Director at riskmethods. It was also a pleasure highlighting the experiences shared by you who joined in live – giving a live webinar an extra value. You may also […]
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: 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: Outsoucing your sourcing?
It is not a new topic but it has been more and more discussed – even in procurement – what should you do yourself and what should you outsource? If procurement is only seen as an administrative service (as accounts payable, wrongly, for so many years has been seen as) then the math is probably […]
EBG | Play: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]
EBG Interview: Nokia experiences in Source to Pay optimation
They don’t grow on trees – process owners and process development professionals. But in Nokia, defining and optimizing source to pay has been targeted as a core process in need of structure and control. At Source to Pay Summit 2014, Antti Koski, Business Process Lead at Nokia (now Microsoft) moderated very appreciated discussions about continuously […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: 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 […]
EBG Play: If all is about change – how can we make change more strategic
The art of change. The art of managing change. The art of managing strategic change. The art of change in a strategic way. Ask anyone and change management is on the top list of what is perceived the biggest challenge in any large organization. Why is it so hard to realize strategies? Strategies followed by […]
Follow up from a spend analytics webinar
A few hours back EBG | Network finished a fully booked spend analytics webinar featuring Sahar Shirzad, BI Analyst, Procurement Development at Vattenfall. She shared how Vattenfall have developed their spend analytics using Qlik to help them on the tool side. The webinar was fully booked which is no surprise for EBG. Finding ways to […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG Play: Ways to measure win-win buyer and supplier relationships
Creating value and sharing the profit. Sounds reasonable? But still that is not how many business relationships are built. There is often an opposite business driver between buyer and supplier and price is still a major driver. In this interview we talk to Kate Vitasek (Faculty, author, researcher, innovator of the Vested ® business model) […]
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: 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 | 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. […]
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 […]
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: Munters Europe share Supply Chain Risk Management experiences
It was a pleasure sharing supply chain risk management know how from Stefan Måhl, VP Global Sourcing at Munters Europe and that of Rolf Zimmer, Managing Director at riskmethods. It was also a pleasure highlighting the experiences shared by you who joined in live – giving a live webinar an extra value. You may also […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | IV
An online session is a perfect way to gather know how from across the world. To enable knowledgeable professionals to share extensive experiences without leaving the office. On March 12th Jon Hansen, Procurement Insights, gather industry experts such as David Loseby, CPO, Advisor, Author and Global Board of Trustees Member of CIPS to discuss procurement […]