EBG | Network welcome Morten Korgaard Johansson, Procurement Manager, Procurement Infrastructure at Arla Foods to Sourcing Outlook 2021. He invite peers to join a discussion about data usage beyond spend data. How can procurement and the business collaborate to increase transparency and increase data quality? You who join Sourcing Outlook 2021 on November 25th choose […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Deliver cost control through your non-permanent workforce?
How do you achieve that? Companies worldwide are increasing their use of non-employees to create a more agile and resilient workforce. At the same time, the challenge of engaging and managing this extended workforce has grown. This area has intrigued EBG | Network for a long time. How much of your workforce consist of non-employee […]
EBG | Webinar: Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey
And especially “Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey: increasing transparency and agility during challenging times”. It is one thing developing in a void, with plenty of time taking care of a static environment where everything stay the same and change can happen as planned when planned. Never experienced that? Probably not and especially not the past year […]
EBG | Summit News
Arla Foods join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Morten Korgaard Johansson, Procurement Manager, Procurement Infrastructure at Arla Foods to Sourcing Outlook 2021. He invite peers to join a discussion about data usage beyond spend data. How can procurement and the business collaborate to increase transparency and increase data quality? You who join Sourcing Outlook 2021 on November 25th choose […]
Danish Crown join Sourcing Outlook 2021
They are on a mission and EBG | Network are glad to take a small part. Welcome Danish Crown joining Sourcing Outlook 2021. On November 25th you who join the summit can choose to join a Theme Discussion – online round table discussion – led by Magdalena Pawlowicz, Senior Procurement Business Process Expert, Center of […]
Mission Insight | Digital Procurement with KWS & Chr. Hansen
When something becomes so house hold it stops meaning something. Words that hold an eternity of promises yet is really hard to realize. Digital procurement. So, EBG asked two experiences practitioners from two different industries what They mean by Digital Procurement and how digitizing and digitalization of procurement – in their mind – can help […]
Ericsson & Orkla join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Sophie Arildsson, Senior Manager – Sustainable Sourcing at Orkla and Fredrik Taube, Head of Sourcing Business Development at Ericsson to Sourcing Outlook 2021. They join a session where we will listen to their experiences and draw from their perspectives. The focus is “What role can procurement play ensuring sustainability strategies come […]
EBG | Insights
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 […]
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 […]
EBG Play: Source to Pay panel discussion on how to develop world class compliance
There are numerous finance, procurement, CRM and other systems in the market. A lot has happened in the past, systems are merged as are companies. Finding the balance between knowing exactly what your organization is spending, how and why, is a challenge in itself. At Source to Pay Summit 2014 EBG brought together wise men […]
EBG | Insight: 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 Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: How do you manage Business Control in transformation?
How are you handling the gray zones in between functions? Are you able to free up time in order to capture opportunities in the gray zones between functions? Doing just that is the focus for Volvo Group and Volvo Group Trucks Operations and below You can learn how. Marcus Sjöholm, VP SML Business Control at […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG Play | Shaping a dynamic and proactive procurement organization
Following a very interesting webinar held by Peter Böhm at Trelleborg Industrial Solutions an english summary of this Swedish webinar is in place. Peter shared how he has aimed at developing a dynamic and proactive procurement organization and shared how he measure and organize in order to achieve set targets. Procurement Directors wanting to lead […]
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 […]
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 Podcast: OB10 on touchless processes and enabled financial value chains
At the EXPP we caught up with OB10 and Gary Benson, VP Corporate Development at OB10. There is a lot written about OB10 these days and there is a lot happening in the “e” industry at large. Some has got to do with some buying others and a lot has got to do with real […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Driving Efficiency and Cost Improvement through Platform-based BPO
Finding the golden path towards the perfect end-to-end spend capture and efficiency enabled source-to-pay process should be any organizations dream. Imagine the following, you have perfectly well organized sourcing, purchasing, finance and IT functions working at reaching set targets. Buying the right goods and services from the right suppliers, writing the right contracts and enabling […]
How to secure compliance and minimize leakage in the source-to-pay process
Let’s face the facts. You may have done the mapping of processes and transaction flows. You have categorized suppliers and started to consolidate them. You have purchased a system and written the policy. And yet – you do not get the results you aimed for. Why? There are no simple answers to why! Is it […]
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Focus Area: Sourcing
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 […]
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: 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? […]
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 | Insight: 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: 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: 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? […]