EBG | Network welcome Norwegian to CPO Outlook 2022! Life is not a straight line and businesses have experiences steel baths the past years. What better than to draw from each others experiences! On October 13th you who join us in Stockholm will learn from the experiences Norwegian have had the past years and what […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How Technology Can Help You Compete for Non-Employee Talent
How do you ensure you find the best talents available and manage engagement cycle times the best way possible? As the non-employee numbers increase – how do you source, engage and evaluate the talents you need? Welcome to join intense 45 minutes sharing how others are managing non-employee talent the best way possible. Date: September 8th, […]
EBG | Webinar: Totally Touchless – the Next Level Accounts Payable
The next generation of Accounts Payable (AP) is here. Now, technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are enabling AP teams to access advanced and augmented analytics and touchless invoice processing. These tools give them the power to become a vital source of financial knowledge for their firms that can heavily impact corporate […]
EBG | Summit News
Norwegian join CPO Outlook 2022
EBG | Network welcome Norwegian to CPO Outlook 2022! Life is not a straight line and businesses have experiences steel baths the past years. What better than to draw from each others experiences! On October 13th you who join us in Stockholm will learn from the experiences Norwegian have had the past years and what […]
Ahlsell join CPO Outlook 2022
What role do suppliers play in your corporate strategy? In what ways have you digitized ways of communicating and collaborating with your suppliers? EBG | Network welcome Karolina Hagberg Chinell, CPO and member of the Group Management Team at Ahlsell joining CPO Outlook 2022. On October 12th you who join us in Stockholm can take […]
Workforce Logiq join CPO Outlook 2022
Workforce Logiq a PRO Unlimited company join CPO Outlook 2022. They will discuss the modern workforce from an end to end procurement perspective. On October 12th you who join us in Stockholm can sit down and draw from their and a peers group set of experiences. Developing contingent workforce strategies and processes. There are cost, […]
Ericsson join CPO Outlook 2022
How much of your brainpower comes from your contingent workforce? EBG | Network welcome Ericsson who invite you who join CPO Outlook 2022 to a workshop to discuss process adherence. On October 13th you who join us in Stockholm can come together with a peer group led by Ericsson. Peers learning from peers and experts […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Scania on success factors enrolling purchase-to-pay
What does it take to make sure you have control over your purchase-to-pay processes? How do you encourage stakeholders? We asked Rutger af Sandeberg from Scania and Mia Lenman from Basware about their input in the matter. Rutger and Mia were hosts of two Theme Discussions at Source to Pay Summit 2014, in the interview […]
EBG | Insight: 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 […]
EBG | Insight: OpusCapita point out source-to-pay focus
We have all – globally – been part of a crisis affecting all parts of society. Apart from affecting actions taken to preserve short term liquidity it is relevant and of importance to learn how companies reflect over their then, now and ahead strategies to grow and improve. Study after study show companies are not […]
EBG | Insight: Nokia experiences in Source to Pay optimation
They don’t grow on trees – process owners and process development professionals. But in Nokia, defining and optimizing source to pay has been targeted as a core process in need of structure and control. At Source to Pay Summit 2014, Antti Koski, Business Process Lead at Nokia (now Microsoft) moderated very appreciated discussions about continuously […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG Play | Robotic Process Automation – What does it mean for Procurement and Finance?
We say WOW. What HUGE interest last weeks webinar session about robotic process automation with Göran Martinsson at PwC and Buster Olsborn at Basware generated. Across the globe and across functions. Thank you all who joined us live and all of you who registered. Leading up to this webinar EBG wrote a statement saying “In […]
EBG Play: Online S&P and F&A Benchmark Sessions
Thank you for being interested in all or most of each days Online Sourcing & Procurement and Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark Sessions held in October 2015. EBG are very happy with the result, happy with the experiences given and happy with the interaction so many showed! You can access the recordings from all sessions […]
EBG Play | Beyond Trends: “10 Transformational Realities” redefining procurement
It was a handful, we give you that – as it so often is doing business today in a global environment. We were scheduled to meet online from Canada, India, UK, Sweden and the US – preferably on web camera. We almost made it! What we were able to achieve is to have several insights […]
EBG | Play: How will you manage cash, savings and supplier risk ahead?
The past year and a half has brought with it market changes. Changes in where supplies come from, who buy it and how it is followed up upon. Corcentric have followed the market development carefully and through research they identified three areas of especial interest for businesses ahead; cash, savings and risk. Here you can […]
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: Aligning procurement & finance reducing wasteful spending
Aligning procurement and finance is an always returning topic within EBG | Network. Separate functions, KPIs, systems and how about organizations and even countries. It is not an easy task but the outcome can make huge difference. Difference on bottom line figures, difference enabling an organization to use correct data growing further and difference ensuring […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
Beyond trends from industry experts | I
On March 12th, EBG | Network, Procurement Insights and Zycus gather forces and bring you a panel of experienced professionals. They will be giving you their views on what current and future trends mean for procurement. Here you can learn more about the webinar on March 12th and register David Loseby, one of the panelists […]
EBG | Insight: 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 […]
EBG | Play: Structuring global procurement
It is no easy task creating and managing global organizations. It is no easy task managing global procurement organizations – end-to-end. This is why it is extra inspiring to listen to Tamara Braun, CPO at SAP sharing how they have chosen to structure their global procurement organization. How they have chosen to set up their […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Insight: 7 out of 10 or 46% of spend contingent workforce?
Winning the talent war and at the same time reducing cost does not seemingly go hand in hand. Companies have found ways to reduce wage costs by centralizing and outsourcing HR, finance, procurement and many more functions. The wage arbitrage game however is apparently coming to an end. A contingent workforce may historically have been […]
CFO Talk with Nuno Guerreiro at Sonae about touchless processes and the need for stakeholder management
As downstream Shared Service Centers find themselves managing numerous errors, realizing the need for upstream process development, the question is – how do you enforce that? If touchless processes are the goal – in what ways do you influence metrics and behavior in sourcing and procurement departments? Nuno Guerreiro, Head of Accounts Payable at Sonae […]
Sourcing, procurement and finance development
In a few months professionals meet in Stockholm an discuss vital business development aspects from a sourcing, procurement and finance perspective. How much of your company revenue is invested externally? Probably a major part, making Source to Pay topics a vital part of you development. Below the program as of January 10th, more topics will […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]
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: 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: 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: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
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 […]
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 […]