EBG | Network welcome Resilience360 joining Sourcing Outlook 2019, October 10th in Stockholm as an Expert Organization. At Sourcing Outlook EBG take an overview over sourcing and procurement strategies, operations and governance in practice. Through networking, round table discussions, keynote presentations and focus sessions EBG enable You who join to get maximum value over your […]
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Resilience360 join Sourcing Outlook 2019
EBG | Network welcome Resilience360 joining Sourcing Outlook 2019, October 10th in Stockholm as an Expert Organization. At Sourcing Outlook EBG take an overview over sourcing and procurement strategies, operations and governance in practice. Through networking, round table discussions, keynote presentations and focus sessions EBG enable You who join to get maximum value over your […]
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 […]
Riskmethods join Sourcing Outlook 2019
The ways in which companies can monitor, control and even predict supply chain risks are getting increasingly sophisticated. EBG | Network are glad to welcome riskmethods as an Expert Organization to Sourcing Outlook 2019 in Stockholm where You who join can learn more about how they enable supply chain risk management. Sharing Nokia experiences EBG […]
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 […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How do you digitize your sourcing strategy and operations?
Discussing how to digitize an entire organization is tiresome to anyone. Breaking it down and making a huge topic more understandable is important! In this upcoming session EBG | Network and Basware invite You to learn more about digitizing eSourcing in general and using eAuctions in particular. Why? Like Jacob Gorm Larsen, Director of Digital […]
EBG | Webinar: Source-to-pay digital transformation – keep up or get left behind?
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 and finance perspective. […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG Play: Sourcing & Procurement BPO Benchmark
Almost six months ago, EBG held the first Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Sourcing & Procurement BPO and Finance & Accounting BPO. Or – really – we focused on how large organizations tend to develop their operations and beyond. Within finance and accounting there has been a trend for a long time to centralize and […]
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: A supplier approach to e-invoicing adding value to the customer
When talking about e-invoicing it usually comes from a buyer perspective. Receiving an electronic invoice in its basics mean cutting manual handling costs. In the long run standardization and automation mean business control. But what about the suppliers point of view? Even though it is not necessary to actually send an e-invoice in order for […]
EBG Play: Consumerization driving IT development and introverts reaching out
In a recent interview with Alexander Reay from ITOSDA, a non profit organization driven by peers within the IT development area, he told about his view on IT development and CIO challenges. There are hardly any parts of any business that is not IT dependent or IT driven. Yet IT is in many cases fighting […]
EBG Play: The Lundbeck business service center and Ariba story
We live in a rapidly changing world and businesses need to stay agile. Finding ways to lower cost and ad value is on all businesses agenda. Actually doing so is another question. Lundbeck has undertaken several steps to ensure they enable the strategy set. “We want to invest significantly in growth opportunities, maximize the growth […]
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. […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Follow up from a spend analytics webinar
A few hours back EBG | Network finished a fully booked spend analytics webinar featuring Sahar Shirzad, BI Analyst, Procurement Development at Vattenfall. She shared how Vattenfall have developed their spend analytics using Qlik to help them on the tool side. The webinar was fully booked which is no surprise for EBG. Finding ways to […]
Focus Area: Procurement
LinkedIn: Should procurement be delivering very high ROIs?
It is interesting valuating views of different types of procurement. Often we say “procurement” although there is a huge difference if we mean direct or indirect spend, public or private sector, services, goods or manufacturing etc. At least we need to know if we are talking about direct or indirect spend. This article reasons about […]
CPO Outlook online and free of charge
Welcome to EBG | Network and Online CPO Outlook February 18th 2016! EBG have long experience from creating both real life meetings and online interviews and webinars. One thing is clear – there is a greater need for experience exchange than real life conferences can meet. And there are more people than usually go to […]
The reluctant internal customer giving procurement a headache
It is said with an ease and just as hard as it can be – right? EBG have done several surveys asking managers about the will to change they perceive their organisation to have. It all comes back the same way. All have clear targets as to what should be done. You have the authority […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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: 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. […]
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 […]