Is the world spinning faster or are we just getting older? Well, looking back surely previous generation would state the same “I can’t almost keep up”. How about having been in a trade for a multitude of years and seeing it change dramatically? Many probably have that feeling – and at the same time – […]
EBG | Summit News
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 […]
Statkraft join Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
A warm welcome to Margit E. Granheim, Vice President FPS – Group procurement system and processes at Statkraft joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2019 moderating Theme Discussions. EBG have had the pleasure of seeing Statkraft for a few years at our annual conference and it was a treat learning about the P2P related work they […]
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 […]
CPO Talk with Dr. Marcell Vollmer, CPO at SAP about aligning from source to pay
It is fair to say that the possibilities in keeping control and gather the facts in any type supply chain has increased dramatically past ten years. At the same time, more of businesses have been externalized and finance and procurement as we once new them does not look the same. What we buy and how, […]
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: The promise in “e” is the promise of any future strategy
First published in May 2013 – this interview is still valid and we’d like to push it again. Quite often discussions about e-procurement and e-invoicing tends to focus around – the e – rather than the process itself. E as in electronic as in systems and IT. It is however clear that “e” is more […]
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 Interview: How do you improve Po – Goods recevied and Invoice Matching Rates?
What is the ultimate proof if a source to pay process is flawless? If sourcing measures taking place, contracts being written, purchases being made, goods received and invoices being received are all part of a coherent flow – all linked together as pieces in a puzzle. Matching. Ask any accounts payable and they will probably […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG Play: Arjan van Weele about the need for change
He is a household name within procurement and supply chain – Arjan van Weele. He holds the (parttime) NEVI-Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management, at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS). Arjan acts as an independent boardroom consultant to many large companies on procurement strategy and governance issues. He […]
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 | 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 […]
Protected: EBG Play: Online public sector sourcing & procurement
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Focus Area: Procurement
Transparency and communication the biggest challenges facing procurement today?
Following discussions at LinkedIn can be both rewarding and a headache. Topics that should gain momentum and create a wider discussion might dissapear. Questions that you never would have thought engaged anybody tend to grow enormously. One such discussion, topic, was posted in the group Procurement Professionals (#1 supply chain & sourcing group)…by a consultant. […]
EBG Interview: AstraZenecas road to P2P tool implementation success
It is not even given that all large organizations have a dedicated e-procurement tool beyond SAP SRM or other ERP centric procurement tools. That became evident at this years Source to Pay Summit 2014. How ever, once you have decided to implement a tool, perhaps as in the case of AstraZeneca in several countries – […]
EBG Play: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay
On November 17th 2015, at Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, procurement and finance professionals will meet up at Ariba Commerce Summit 2015. During this summit you can network with practitioners and experts and exchange experiences, learn about future procurement developments and today’s technology driven market. Listen to the below interview with Charlotte Wedell-Neergaard, Nordic […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 […]
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: 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: 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: 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 […]