For the third year in a row, EBG | Network are happy to invite you to join a supply chain risk management overview webinar. Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, Global Operations at Nokia share her insights during a riskmethods enabled webinar. There is still time to register go here to learn […]
EBG | Summit News
Coupa join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome Coupa to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019. Offering an all-in-one business spend management platform it will be interesting to learn what will be discussed during the round table discussions Coupa will be hosting. When Coupa shared some of their know how with EBG back in 2013 they shared […]
Making summits with passion
It has almost been ten years since EBG saw the light of day. Since the start we have aimed to gather cross function, cross industry and thought provoking know how. Not thought provoking for the sake of it but since we understood early how silo functions operate even though business is about collaboration. Source 2 […]
GEP join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome GEP to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019. The idea of a one stop go to partner that help you reach strategic, operational and financial objectives is the corner stone of GEP. GEP have three pillars. Strategic advice and consultancy. A unified source to pay platform including software covering […]
Synertrade join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
EBG | Network are happy to welcome Synertrade to Source 2 Pay Summit 2019, March 28th in Stockholm. They bring a cloud-based Source-to-Pay platform and extensive experience from numerous Nordic and European clients to the summit. About Source 2 Pay Summit In March it will be the ninth annual time EBG bring together sourcing, procurement […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG Webinar | Beyond Trends: “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 | Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Management Best Practices: Nokia
Apart from meeting face to face and being able to ask each other questions and listen to each others experiences – meeting online is a great way to increase knowledge in different areas. EBG are happy to present an opportunity to learn more about supply chain risk management from Nokia. Managing risk is a top […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 […]
EBG Interview: Cloud service agreements, lock-in effects and data format issues
As the demand to cut wage arbitrage and minimize administration costs keep growing, solutions like cloud services grow and will keep growing. Low cost, flexibility and agility may be reasons why cloud services are growing fast. Services in the cloud is of course here to stay and there are matters to consider when signing an […]
EBG Play: 4 companies, 3 questions about financial supply chain developments
EBG recently met up with Esa Tihilä, Basware, Jonas Edlund, Pagero, Markus Ament, Taulia and Kai Finck, Ariba an SAP Company to ask about the market developments within the financial supply chain market. What is that then, really? Well, it may of course be anything from ERP systems, to workflow systems, to e-invoicing to supply […]
EBG Play | Changing transaction platform with 170+ countries
Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | I
On March 12th, EBG | Network, Procurement Insights and Zycus gather forces and bring you a panel of experienced professionals. They will be giving you their views on what current and future trends mean for procurement. Here you can learn more about the webinar on March 12th and register David Loseby, one of the panelists […]
Nordic F&A BPO Webinar April 17th: How does your data compare with peers?
Date: Friday April 17th Time: 11:00-11:55 AM CET (12:00-12:55 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >>Click here to register for the webinar The idea of centralizing and outsourcing all or part of finance and accounting (F&A) has been around in the […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Driving Efficiency and Cost Improvement through Platform-based BPO
Finding the golden path towards the perfect end-to-end spend capture and efficiency enabled source-to-pay process should be any organizations dream. Imagine the following, you have perfectly well organized sourcing, purchasing, finance and IT functions working at reaching set targets. Buying the right goods and services from the right suppliers, writing the right contracts and enabling […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 | 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 […]
Scope and type supply chain risk monitored
For the third year in a row, EBG | Network are happy to invite you to join a supply chain risk management overview webinar. Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, Global Operations at Nokia share her insights during a riskmethods enabled webinar. There is still time to register go here to learn […]
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 […]