A warm welcome to Stefano Dell’Orto, Head of Procurement Performance at Vattenfall joining Sourcing Outlook 2017 October 19th as a Theme Discussion moderator. What will your organization look like in 5, 10 or 15 years? What will the market you target want, need and desire? Many industries work in a changing environment where the need […]
EBG | Play: Deloitte F&A BPO insights and trends
It has been almost a year since the first Online Benchmark Sessions hosted by EBG saw the light. During two days and five sessions people from across the Nordics came together to listen to and share insights into how sourcing, procurement and finance processes and strategies are evolved on an organizational and process related level. […]
EBG | Play: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]
EBG Play: Experiences in procurement outsourcing
As businesses evolve the view on procurement changes from a low cost, cost reduction and transaction effective angle to an at least more diversified view depending on type business, maturity level and know-how. The Hackett Group state that centralizing and possibly outsourcing of procurement has a high growth rate and looking at the challenges and […]
EBG Play: EFFSO about the development in category management BPO in the Nordics
Outsourcing has been a part of strategies in a number of business areas due to different reasons. One main reason being to focus on core business processes and let other professionals take care of manual and transactional processes and flows. One, perhaps even bigger reason, has been to reduce cost – cutting wage arbitrage has […]
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 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 […]
Outsourcing your sourcing function – what are the do’s and dont’s?
It seems to never stop being a hot topic – what to do yourself and what to outsource. EBG find this especially interesting as so much effort is put into ensuring a One Company harmonization with common understandings of what an organization is, do and offer, what missions and visions should be guiding stars and […]
What to do yourself and what to outsource
This is an old topic with fresh angles. The different scopes of what to do inhouse and what not to are growing in depth and width. Here is a discussion in the topic from LinkedIn, starting with the question Does outsourcing actually work? Research suggests that 50% of projects fail completely or fail to meet […]