43% of the average enterprise’s overall workforce is now considered contract, contingent or non-employee and is built on freelancers, independent contractors, professional services and traditional temporary workers – up from just 20 percent a decade ago*. That is a staggering fact. During a recent webinar with Beeline facts and figures were run through. The direct […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How is disruption driving the evolution of the digital supply chain?
The supply chain disruptions seen in the past two years are staggering. For multiple reasons supply chain and procurement have had to work magic to ensure customers get what they want when they want at the cost agreed. Not always succeeding. Sometimes realizing that the channels used and the supply based worked with will not […]
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 | Summit News
Zycus join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Zycus as an Expert Organization to Sourcing Outlook 2021. The summit take place on November 25th, for the final time online. Online meaning up to 40 round table discussions being enabled during the day. EBG connecting peers and experts to draw from each others experiences in smaller groups. You who join […]
Ivalua join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Ivalua joining Sourcing Outlook 2021 as an Expert Organization. On November 25th you who join the summit – the FINAL EBG Online Summit – can join their Theme Discussions. Meet with a smaller group of peers interested in the same topic as You. EBG connect you prior, […]
OpenText join Sourcing Outlook 2021
“More than ever before, procurement executives are operating in a challenging and ever-changing environment. They’re tasked with monumental operational excellence goals while working with less personnel and capital. The effects of COVID-19 are impacting business operations on a global scale. Production stoppages and shortages are raising supply chain stability concerns. Organizations need optimized supply chains […]
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 […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Taking a holistic approach to procurement
It is easier said than done. Multiple stakeholders, multiple markets, multiple systems – and yet – it is getting easier to achieve end-to-end control from source to pay. In the below interview we “meet up” with Regine Böhm-Gams at Capgemini IBX Business Network to learn more about their view on procurement development. EBG follow the […]
EBG | Insight: The Hackett Group on world class finance and procurement performance
It is always a pleasure listening to consultants with a clear holistic approach to procurement and finance development. Tom Bangemann at The Hackett Group is one of those who are able to showcase why procurement is getting more strategic interest than before, why wage arbitrage and short term cost reductions will soon come to an […]
EBG | Insight: What is your contract management status?
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
EBG | Insight: Part II | Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer, Tradeshift
A recent conversation with an experienced person within Business Control again opened up our eyes for the lost opportunities when people work in silos. Business opportunities, revenue and margins lost because processes and use of data is not aligned across functions and in-between organizations. Can we find a solution over an interview and upcoming webinar […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: How do you digitize your sourcing strategy and operations?
Digitizing all parts of doing business is on everybody’s lips. Yet it proves to be challenging for most. Why? During a webinar focusing on digitizing sourcing strategies and operations some clues were given. How automated and digitized is your sourcing process? 5% of the attendees use a full eSourcing cycle end to end..but 43% manage […]
EBG | Play: Making sense of procurement and AP data
A great number of people signed up to join a webinar named “”How do you make sense of procurement and accounts payable data?” where Jereme Pineda at Basware shared his insights into the matter. From a finance perspective cost is a solid way of analyzing purchase to pay outcome, but how about looking at it […]
EBG | Insight: 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: The Journey to Smarter Business Spend Management
Organizations have had to “react and respond” by immediately pivoting and adapting to fast-changing government advice and regulations, as well as navigating to a “new normal” of greater supplier risk management and more agile investment decision-making. One of the most remarkable aspects of the Covid crisis is seeing how communities have come together to face […]
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: What is Source-to-pay digital transformation?
Choosing to rephrase the webinar title based on what came out during the recent session in which Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer at Tradeshift presented his experiences and visions. It is still so – even though much less than before – that source to pay to some is viewed as transactional efficiency and […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
How to master supplier communication and data
If you could line up all the supplier data in your critical and non critical systems – how many miles would they reach? How much time is spent managing poor data? How many decisions may have been conducted based on non optimal information? The discussion about how to tackle the often thousands of suppliers and […]
EBG | Insight: Unifying control with common strategies enabling global purchasing power
There are few global organizations who are not looking at ways to leverage on their global purchasing power. Finding ways to unify control and execute common strategies along the procure to pay process takes time but is a crucial part in controlling spend, finding ways to reduce cost and enabling transactional follow up and control. […]
EBG | Play: Benchmark your source-to-pay performance against the best
The idea of “the best” in process automation may be shifting. From lowering the number of FTEs and SLAs focusing on transactional efficiency. To improved value creation and data insights fed back to the organization. How do you get there and how do you know where Your organization stands? Take a look at the on […]
The need for a holistic view on data intelligence
It is indeed fascinating how much time and effort is spent on capturing and analyzing data in basically any organization – public and private. We want to be able to make reasonably informed decisions backed by real-time information. Most often these discussions tend to be sales oriented and that is of course wise. To what […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Reflections from Source 2 Pay Summit 2016
When you work for a really long time with an event it becomes a part of you and when it is over you are somewhat left in a void. That void is however quickly filled with impressions and ideas for the future, just like it is for us at EBG after Source 2 Pay Summit. […]
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 […]
EBG | Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
As supply chains become increasingly global, diverse, complex and important – so does calculating and reducing risk. Most procurement and supply chain professionals probably recognize this as one of your top priorities? And would you agree that it is becoming increasingly important with multiple ways of analyzing and communicating possible risk scenarios – before they […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Insight: What is your contract management status?
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
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, […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
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: 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: 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 […]
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 […]