A warm welcome to Jukka-Pekka Hämäläinen, Director, Sourcing Operations at UPM joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2020. Jukka-Pekka is responsible for leading and developing Group-wide source to pay operations and the teams in Europe, China and India. At Source 2 Pay Summit You can sit down and learn from his and their experiences during round […]
EBG | Summit News
UPM join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
A warm welcome to Jukka-Pekka Hämäläinen, Director, Sourcing Operations at UPM joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2020. Jukka-Pekka is responsible for leading and developing Group-wide source to pay operations and the teams in Europe, China and India. At Source 2 Pay Summit You can sit down and learn from his and their experiences during round […]
Booking.com join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
Welcome to Booking.com joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2020. Alexandre Tschann, P2P Manager at Booking.com will be sharing what their strive towards world class source to pay encompass. In the source to pay area the words “best in class”, “best practice” and “world class” is often use. But what does that mean? For sure not […]
Finnair join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
EBG | Network follow both companies and individuals as they grow. EBG have follow Antti Koski since he worked at Microsoft and are now happy to share his experiences from Finnair. A warm welcome to Antti joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2020! Antti Koski, Development Manager, Source-to-Pay at Finnair will be sharing his experiences together […]
Novartis join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
How do you do it? How do you go from deciding on One way of working or at least aiming for a single overview over how a global organization (and it’s 3rd party collaborators) should handle certain processes? Is it even possible? EBG | Network welcome Iulia Stanciu, Global Digital Manager, Procure-to-Pay at Novartis to […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Benchmark your source-to-pay performance against the best
Welcome to a webinar session where data from hundreds of survey respondents experiences will be shared. Allowing You to benchmark your source to pay maturity and next steps. The rapid changes in innovative technology help to drive unforeseen cost efficiencies through process optimization. By implementing new technologies such as Robotics Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial […]
EBG | Webinar: Supply Chain Transparency – The Next P2P Evolution
Welcome to a webinar exploring what an end-to-end transparent supply chain may mean to you and your business growth. Today there are endless discussions about digitizing all aspects of doing business – but what does it really encompass? During this webinar we aim to find out! Date: October 17th 2019Time: 3:00-3:45 PM CESTPlace: Your computer/tablet/phoneLanguage: […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 […]
EBG | Play: Benchmark your source-to-pay performance against the best
The idea of “the best” in process automation may be shifting. From lowering the number of FTEs and SLAs focusing on transactional efficiency. To improved value creation and data insights fed back to the organization. How do you get there and how do you know where Your organization stands? Take a look at the on […]
5 questions about how to manage supply chain risk
Yesterday EBG | Network hosted a webinar enabled by riskmethods and joined by Husqvarna Group. The topic was tips and insights when working with supply chain risk management (SCRM). EBG also have had the pleasure of interviewing Heiko Schwarz, founder and managing director at riskmethods. The idea with the interview – to ask 5 questions […]
EBG | Play: Online Goods Receipt Q&A
A big congratulations to Ann-Louise Hallding, Sourcing & Procurement Process Development Specialist at Telia Company who – on February 17th – won a Sourcing & Procurement Hero Award for her fantastic internal job aiming to improve the companies procurement user experience. Telia Company CPO Jarkki Sakki gave Ann-Louise an award for ” Achievements in deliver value […]
EBG | Play: Solving the e-procurement user adoption challenge
The title of this webinar holds many promises. Could there be a single formula that enable organizations to use systems as intended? May it be the way they are implemented, how many hours are spent on education, how processes are set up or who are able to use it. Of course all of that matters […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG Play: What is procurement transformation?
Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]
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: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective
Aligning procurement targets to company targets, supporting the business and delivering results. Easily said but not so easily achieved? In far too many situations procurement and finance functions find themselves not reaching set targets, or trying to reach targets that simply aren’t aligned with overall business targets. What happen then is frustrated managers and even […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 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 […]
EBG Play: Sourcing & Procurement BPO Benchmark
Almost six months ago, EBG held the first Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Sourcing & Procurement BPO and Finance & Accounting BPO. Or – really – we focused on how large organizations tend to develop their operations and beyond. Within finance and accounting there has been a trend for a long time to centralize and […]
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 | 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 | 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: 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: 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: 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 […]