An incredible addition has been made to CPO Outlook 2022 in Stockholm. Always seeking ways to empower individuals and strengthen businesses. A warm welcome to workshop host Dnyanesh Sarang, Manager – New product development and introduction SC at Cepheid (Danaher group). He invite you who join us in Stockholm to join his workshop on October […]
Meet EBG in October – in Stockholm or Online
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? How can procurement help the business find and keep the right talent? The role of procurement in ensuring the […]
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
Cepheid (Danaher group) join CPO Outlook 2022
An incredible addition has been made to CPO Outlook 2022 in Stockholm. Always seeking ways to empower individuals and strengthen businesses. A warm welcome to workshop host Dnyanesh Sarang, Manager – New product development and introduction SC at Cepheid (Danaher group). He invite you who join us in Stockholm to join his workshop on October […]
Unique networking in Stockholm
Are we seeing you in Stockholm or Online at CPO Outlook 2022 on October 12th & 13th 2022? Then we will finally once again meet in person or online. After two years of 129 online round table discussions and three years since we last met. EBG | Network still believe in the power of connecting […]
Per Angusta | SpendHQ join CPO Outlook 2022
A warm welcome to Per Angusta | SpendHQ joining CPO Outlook 2022 on October 12th and 13th in Stockholm. How do you bridge organizational intelligence gaps in your end to end procurement practices today? It is increasingly being asked of organizations to have complete sourcing process control. Yet EBG | Network know how hard that […]
Arjo join CPO Outlook 2022
In just a few week procurement professionals will meet in Stockholm or Online for the 17th annual summit hosted by EBG | Network. CPO Outlook 2022 is the combination of Source 2 Pay Summit and Sourcing Outlook – bringing you the only end to end procurement summit in the Nordics in 2022. Oskar Dahllöf, Corporate […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: 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 | Insight: Was 2020 the final wake up call for digitization?
There are clear indications this must be the case. That the disruption having faced almost all businesses on a global scale will skyrocket the effort digitizing also supply chains. There are actions to take and considerations to be had. In this EBG | Insight interview we meet up with Bernhard Soltmann, Managing Director of Allocation […]
EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
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: 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 | Insight: Basware interview about e-invoicing and e-procurement trends
Something is cooking, the traditional “moving-what-used-to-be-paper”-documents around in an organization is transforming into ways to use supplier and buyer relationships, processes and pure cash in more efficient and more valuable ways. To the surface comes realizing that many processes cut through organizations leaving room for errors and missed opportunities. Basware is one of the […]
EBG Play | Supply Chain Transparency…the Next P2P Evolution
Supply Chain Transparency…the Next P2P Evolution – a webinar hosted by EBG | Network enabled by Tradeshift recently and below you can view it all over again. Mike Jud and Jonathan Laverentz shared their different “up” and “down” stream experiences from years of working with different type organizations and technology. The first reflection being that […]
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! Below are the recordings from all sessions, in […]
EBG Play: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?
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: 10 advice when sending e-invoices to your customers
Ever heard of buyers asking their suppliers for more structured invoice data? The debate about how to get suppliers to send e-invoices has been loud and clear for the past decade, at least from the buyer side. The benefits are clear on the buyer side but what about the supplier side? When the buyer side […]
EBG Play | Online Spend Management Benchmark Recordings
Thank you for being a part of or wanting to take part of the EBG Online Spend Management Benchmark aired November 26th. Together with ProSourcia, EBG can provide you with a study summary and new fresh data from the live session. Data that to a large extent comply with the study data. Joining EBG Online […]
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 | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
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: Arjan van Weele about the need for change
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 […]
Time to gather for Source to Pay Summit 2015!
Every year for the past four years, EBG | Network have created a cross functional, cross organizational conference day based upon the fact that in order to take control over both the physical and financial supply chain – an end to end approach is needed. This is not rocket science but take a look at […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Beyond trends from industry experts | III
On March 12th professionals from across the globe will meet online to learn from each other about what trends may mean now and ahead for procurement. Jon Hansen is gathering intelligence leading up to the webinar and you too can draw from those insights via Beyond trends form industry experts | I and Beyond trends […]
LinkedIn: What do procurement professionals value in working with vendor suppliers?
What is most valued among the respondees to this discussion question? There are many answers so the questions touches upon an area of interest. Some of the answers: “I’d suggest that a supplier who helps you achieve your client’s goals whilst legitimately maximising their return from you would be ideal. Namely, consistently providing what they […]
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 […]
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? […]
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: 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 […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
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: 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: 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: Leveraging Automation to Help Manage Supplier Risk
Disruptions are shaping the future and supplier risk and performance management now needs to become supplier value management. Recognizing the benefits of collaboration and integration across the entire supplier lifecycle. Statements made during the now On demand available webinar EBG hosted together with KPMG and Coupa. During a fact and insight filled hour Björn Borgman, […]