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 | Summit News
Sourcing Outlook 2019 topic overview
Sourcing Outlook 2019 is based on the know how and experiences shared by speakers and moderators joining he summit. Creating a program in that way ensure EBG | Network stay in tune with what reasonably many others want to get better at and improve. Experiencing a day created a day ensure all present are passionate […]
People, process and technology at Sourcing Outlook 2019
What if you could just implement system support and that was it. All problems solved. All data harvested, interpreted and used at its best. What if. Having gathered competences within sourcing, procurement and finance for 10 years – EBG | Network know it is not so easy. The terms people – process – technology have […]
Strategy execution a Sourcing Outlook 2019
For sure all have experienced that new management presenting what surely must be the best possible new organization structure. Best new way of improving business efficiency and effect. De-centralized becoming centralized – or the opposite. Outsourced being in-sourced – or the opposite. Local and regional becoming global – or the opposite. And so on. But […]
NCC join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome NCC to Sourcing Outlook 2019. NCC is a construction and property development company in the Nordic Region. With annual sales of over SEK 57 billion and approx. 16.500 employees. Emma Papakosta, Director & Head of Purchasing Systems is joining Sourcing Outlook as a Theme Discussion moderator and she […]
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: 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: Basware interview about e-invoicing and e-procurement trends
Something is cooking, the traditional “moving-what-used-to-be-paper”-documents around in an organization is transforming into ways to use supplier and buyer relationships, processes and pure cash in more efficient and more valuable ways. To the surface comes realizing that many processes cut through organizations leaving room for errors and missed opportunities. Basware is one of the […]
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: 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: 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: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating
How do you scale solutions you already have or consider growing that platform of capabilities you wish you had? EBG | Network tuned in with Sam Jenks and Ashley Stephenson at Kodiak Rating to hear their view on how to enable procurement to utilize the possibilities out there. It is not shortage of technology that […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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 […]
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 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: 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) […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Seminar: Practical change and transformation management
EBG are well known to enable experience exchange among peers. EBG are also well known to create flawless experiences with the focus on the right things – sharing know-how, getting to a result, being concrete and taking an end-to-end perspective. A while back EBG conducted a survey among Swedish procurement and finance organizations to find […]
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: 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 […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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. […]
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 | How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?
Getting an understanding into an increasingly important and increasingly global supply chain is and will be even more significant. Looking at the progress of EBG | Network over the past five years, the strategic increase of a holistic approach to sourcing, procurement and finance is the most apparent. It seems most companies today know that […]
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 […]
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. […]