EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2019 and EBG look forward to learning more about how sustainability take an increasingly bigger part on company development. Because it is not easy. You have multiple layers of people, data and suppliers and gaining insight is not always easy. How often you you do online supplier reviews? How are your […]
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EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2019 and EBG look forward to learning more about how sustainability take an increasingly bigger part on company development. Because it is not easy. You have multiple layers of people, data and suppliers and gaining insight is not always easy. How often you you do online supplier reviews? How are your […]
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 […]
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: 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: CPO Talk with Björn Stenecker – Category management influencing compliance strategies
What role will procurement take in future business development? No easy answers and for sure it differs depending on the type of business – but one thing is clear. We are seeing an externalization of business, having organizations invest many percent of revenue with external suppliers. What role should procurement take when value need to […]
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 […]
EBG Play: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail
EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
EBG | Play: ROI, obstacles and future proof P2P
The other day EBG | Network “met” with Eric Wilson, Vice President Purchase to pay with Basware in the US. We spoke about his experiences in creating purchase to pay business cases, ensuring ROI, how to ensure success and how to future proof purchase to pay development.
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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: 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 | Interview: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
Organizations are striving to increase an understanding of company spend, ways to improve innovation speed and company capital and cash. Procurement have for a long time struggled to highlight the possible impact the know how they possess can have on all of the above. Challenges visualizing what is and what if can be part of […]
Key elements in a global OneFinance transformation change program
Microsoft has been on a journey towards perfecting their OneFinance transformation program. A global journey set to create efficient processes, effective controls and clear roles and responsibilities within finance and procurement. We recognize their starting point: huge amount of employees (92 000 at their starting point), fragmented finance, accounting and procurement functions and non standardized […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 […]
RE: P2P Metrics that matter
Every now and then someone put the spotlight on the right things. Using fancy words is so easy – finding common understandings and ways of utilizing those opportunities is much harder. P2P can be such a fancy word. As a shared service organization and the meaning might be purchase-to-pay and moving a PO/non PO order […]
LinkedIn: Tail End Spend: How does your organization manage this spend?
Having followed this discussion for some days, let’s share some insights. Tail spend. Maverick spend. And then some headache. EBG have yet to meet with an organisation that has taken control over their tail end spend. We have heard about the 80/20 rule for so long we have stopped asking questions about the rest of […]
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 | 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. […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]