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Icertis join CPO Outlook 2023

January 23, 2023 By ebgnetwork

EBG | Network are glad to welcome Icertis joining CPO Outlook 2023 as Platinum sponsors. This mean you get to know as much as is possible about how to connect the agreements you make and contracts you sign to actual business value. On October 18th & 19th you who join the summit in Stockholm will have […]

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EBG | Webinar: Transforming procurement at Danish Crown

“Living and loving the journey”: transforming procurement at Danish Crown. Danish Crown is a unique organization, owned by 9,000 Danish farmers supplying pigs and cattle. It has 25,000 employees and 60-plus factories. Procurement transformation represents a dramatic shift in an enterprise’s structure, operations and bottom line, resulting from the establishment of a new collective mindset, […]

EBG | Webinar: Accelerate Time to Value with Touchless Invoice Processing

It is often said, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Adopting and operating new solutions and services can be time-consuming and requires new knowledge, processes, and ways of working. To achieve your business goals and reap the full benefits of your accounts payable (AP) solution, […]

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Icertis join CPO Outlook 2023

EBG | Network are glad to welcome Icertis joining CPO Outlook 2023 as Platinum sponsors. This mean you get to know as much as is possible about how to connect the agreements you make and contracts you sign to actual business value. On October 18th & 19th you who join the summit in Stockholm will have […]

Prewave join CPO Outlook 2023

A warm welcome to Prewave joining CPO Outlook 2023 as Platinum sponsors! EBG | Network look forward to bringing people together on October 18th and 19th in Stockholm. Prewave ad supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain and sustainability managers to the summit. You who join us in October can choose to join their round table […]

Ivalua join CPO Outlook 2023

A new year, new beginnings but also cherishing what we know from the past. On October 18th & 19th we meet in Stockholm for CPO Outlook 2023. EBG | Network welcome Ivalua joining the summit as Platinum partner! CPO Outlook is the only summit combining 13 years of knowledge bringing end to end procurement insights […]

EBG | Summit: CPO Outlook 2022 Post Summit Report

Mid October we got together in Stockholm again. Peers and experts using the opportunity to meet in an informal yet to the point way. All together 38 round table discussions and 7 workshops took place. We reflected, asked questions, got listened to and listened back. An EBG Summit have limited seats for just this reason, […]

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EBG | Insights

EBG | Insight: Swedish government taking public sector e-procurement one step further

  The Swedish National Financial Management Authority are recommending the use of PEPPOL infrastructure and message formats being used in future procurement and finance operations to and from public sector. The PEPPOL structure is aimed at cross border business and cross border transactions being sent. It can be used – as it is to some […]

EBG | Insight: Part I | Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer, Tradeshift

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 | Insight: 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 | Insight: 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 […]

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EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions

EBG | Play: Public e-procurement success factors

In the early spring EBG | Network held a couple of Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Public Sector Tender and Procurement development. Most of what EBG do is done in English – however it became fairly clear that the public sector target group wanted us to do the sessions in Swedish, so sorry to the […]

EBG | Play: How do you ensure responsible sourcing practices in sourcing and procurement operations?

How do you work with social and trust factors in sourcing and procurement? This session was a lot. First of all Sweden, US and Denmark came together. Four competences such as Thomas Lyng-Jeppesen, Nordics Sustainable Sourcing & Supply Chain Lead, Senior Manager and Poppy Brewer, Responsible Sourcing Global Lead, Manager – Strategy & Consulting at […]

EBG | Play: How can Source2Pay software assist in managing supplier risk and risky payments

Risk management have had an exponential growth the past years for obvious reasons. As we enter new challenges in the market, risk awareness do too. But how well can you manage risk across sourcing, procurement and finance? How do you break down the huge task of end to end control into smaller pieces? During this […]

EBG | Play: The Elephant in the Room: S2P Ecosystem or S2P Single Suite?

Say six salmons in a salmon box really fast 10 times. Do you have that expression in English? Probably not but it came to mind asking attendees the question if they choose to adjust processes to systems or systems to processes. And just like pronouncing complex sentences so all understand them – deciding which system […]

EBG | Play: AI, Machine Learning and RPA: Value Drivers & Limitations

A few years into the hype: Where do RPA, ML and AI stand today? Not an easy question to answer in a defined way during 45 minutes. But we try. Here you find the recording of an online session EBG held together with Basware and guest speakers Forrester. Fun fact that almost to the date […]

EBG | Play: Finance and procurement – a fine romance or the best of enemies?

How can it be that it is still so hard to collaborate across functions? To find ways to ensure those great strategies are realized, savings met, automation enabled and cash optimization ensured. Welcome to not only re-view the recent session enabled by Basware but also send in questions and answer the poll questions! How does […]

Focus Area: Source to Pay

EBG Play: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?

September 30, 2014 By ebgnetwork

There is a lot of talk about collaborative and connective relationships. It is fare to say that the possibilities today could enable a completely seamless and transparent approach to doing business. So are we? Take a look at and listen to two snapshots from this years Source to Pay Summit where Kate Vitasek gave a […]

EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective

November 21, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

EBG | Insight: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective

January 23, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete

December 18, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Focus Area: Procurement

EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?

August 24, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 | Insight: Arjan van Weele about the need for change

December 14, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 | Insight: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail

December 10, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Focus Area: Sourcing

EBG | Play: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization

October 8, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement

June 23, 2020 By ebgnetwork

Is there a correlation? Between being resilient and sustainable? EBG | Network had the pleasure of hosting a webinar where Pete Rau, Operations Manager at EcoVadis shared his view in the matter. What did the audience think? As always with live poll questions there are additional questions and reflections coming up after poll results are […]

EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?

May 25, 2020 By ebgnetwork

Since the COVID-19 pandemic is not a Black Swan – i.e we should have predicted and prepared for it. One may wonder if disruption is or will be the new normal? We may say “hopefully not” and the question still remain – what can we learn from disruptions like the ones we are currently facing? […]

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Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability

EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement

June 23, 2020 By ebgnetwork

Is there a correlation? Between being resilient and sustainable? EBG | Network had the pleasure of hosting a webinar where Pete Rau, Operations Manager at EcoVadis shared his view in the matter. What did the audience think? As always with live poll questions there are additional questions and reflections coming up after poll results are […]

EBG | Insight: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?

February 19, 2016 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Play: Global CSR Risk & Performance: Insights From The 2017 Index

December 4, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?

May 25, 2020 By ebgnetwork

Since the COVID-19 pandemic is not a Black Swan – i.e we should have predicted and prepared for it. One may wonder if disruption is or will be the new normal? We may say “hopefully not” and the question still remain – what can we learn from disruptions like the ones we are currently facing? […]

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EBG | Webinar: Transforming procurement at Danish Crown

“Living and loving the journey”: transforming procurement at Danish Crown. Danish Crown is a unique organization, owned by 9,000 Danish farmers supplying pigs and cattle. It has 25,000 employees and 60-plus factories. Procurement transformation represents a dramatic shift in an enterprise’s structure, operations and bottom line, resulting from the establishment of a new collective mindset, […]

EBG | Webinar: Accelerate Time to Value with Touchless Invoice Processing

It is often said, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Adopting and operating new solutions and services can be time-consuming and requires new knowledge, processes, and ways of working. To achieve your business goals and reap the full benefits of your accounts payable (AP) solution, […]

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Prewave join CPO Outlook 2023

A warm welcome to Prewave joining CPO Outlook 2023 as Platinum sponsors! EBG | Network look forward to bringing people together on October 18th and 19th in Stockholm. Prewave ad supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain and sustainability managers to the summit. You who join us in October can choose to join their round table […]

Ivalua join CPO Outlook 2023

A new year, new beginnings but also cherishing what we know from the past. On October 18th & 19th we meet in Stockholm for CPO Outlook 2023. EBG | Network welcome Ivalua joining the summit as Platinum partner! CPO Outlook is the only summit combining 13 years of knowledge bringing end to end procurement insights […]

EBG | Summit: CPO Outlook 2022 Post Summit Report

Mid October we got together in Stockholm again. Peers and experts using the opportunity to meet in an informal yet to the point way. All together 38 round table discussions and 7 workshops took place. We reflected, asked questions, got listened to and listened back. An EBG Summit have limited seats for just this reason, […]

EBG | Webinar: Transforming procurement at Danish Crown

“Living and loving the journey”: transforming procurement at Danish Crown. Danish Crown is a unique organization, owned by 9,000 Danish farmers supplying pigs and cattle. It has 25,000 employees and 60-plus factories. Procurement transformation represents a dramatic shift in an enterprise’s structure, operations and bottom line, resulting from the establishment of a new collective mindset, […]

EBG | Webinar: Accelerate Time to Value with Touchless Invoice Processing

It is often said, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Adopting and operating new solutions and services can be time-consuming and requires new knowledge, processes, and ways of working. To achieve your business goals and reap the full benefits of your accounts payable (AP) solution, […]

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