Does the way we do business look the same now as ten years ago? Is it likely it will look the same in another ten years? What will make companies grow and prevail as markets shift and products and services change? A company that is serious about thinking ahead and aiming to support small, medium […]
EBG | Summit News
Tradeshift join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
Does the way we do business look the same now as ten years ago? Is it likely it will look the same in another ten years? What will make companies grow and prevail as markets shift and products and services change? A company that is serious about thinking ahead and aiming to support small, medium […]
Cargotec join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
Will a company ever be finished improving efficiency? Will the effect given strategies enable ever be enough? What do you do when you have realized important milestones and are looking ahead? EBG | Network are happy to welcome Pia Lax-Lehtelä, Director, Development and Projects, Indirect Procurement and Laura Oldendorff, Development Manager, Purchasing at Cargotec to […]
Basware join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
A lot has happened the past years in the sourcing, procurement and finance area EBG | Network call source to pay. New solution providers have appeared, new collaborations and acquisitions have taken place. New technologies have emerged and companies are today truly realizing the value in end to end visibility and control. Basware have taken […]
Coupa join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
EBG | Network look forward to sharing the extensive know how Coupa can share from years of constant development. You who join Source 2 Pay Summit will be able to join their round table discussions – Theme Discussions – ask questions and learn from peers joining the same session as you. It is without doubt […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Building Partner Enabled Digital Offerings through AI
Welcome to a session created for professionals working in the procurement and purchasing function. A session for you who are keen on adopting and leveraging digital offerings to improve process efficiencies, primarily through digital offerings like AI. This session will go through digitalization of procurement and how to build compelling digital offerings like AI through […]
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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 | 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: 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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
Beyond trends from industry experts | II
Leading up to the upcoming Beyond trends for procurement webinar March 12th, Jon Hansen at Procurement Insights asked his network of experts about their thoughts. In certain instances, I received brief yet insightful commentaries from industry thought leaders as well as practitioners via email. Other times, I had the opportunity to talk with these individuals […]
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 […]
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: Taking a holistic approach to procurement
It is easier said than done. Multiple stakeholders, multiple markets, multiple systems – and yet – it is getting easier to achieve end-to-end control from source to pay. In the below interview we “meet up” with Regine Böhm-Gams at Capgemini IBX Business Network to learn more about their view on procurement development. EBG follow the […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG Interview: Increasing spend under management – the challenge in changing purchasing behaviour
Another really appreciated discussion during Source to Pay Summit 2014 was moderated by Mimmi Alladin, Procurement Manager Indirect Material at Siemens AB. The discussion taps into the challenges in changing purchasing behavior. You may be doing it all right – managing the contracts, writing the policies – but how do you make sure people follow […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]