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 […]
EBG | Webinars
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, […]
EBG | Summit News
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, […]
We did it – Reflections Part I
After three years of constant worry, online round table discussions and webinars – we were finally able to meet in person in Stockholm again. CPO Outlook 2022 took place in Stockholm and Online on October 12th and 13th. Again gathering Nordic procurement professionals and European experts to truly draw from each others experiences. The whole […]
EBG | Insights
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: 4 companies, 3 questions about financial supply chain developments
EBG recently met up with Esa Tihilä, Basware, Jonas Edlund, Pagero, Markus Ament, Taulia and Kai Finck, Ariba an SAP Company to ask about the market developments within the financial supply chain market. What is that then, really? Well, it may of course be anything from ERP systems, to workflow systems, to e-invoicing to supply […]
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 | Insight: Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, Governance & Risk
In our second interview with Francesco Colavita, Vice President Solution Architecture & Value Engineering – Europe at JAGGAER we go through Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, Governance & Risk. It will be impossible to think of corporate 2020 without thinking about all discussions taking risk management into account . For obvious reasons. Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 | 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: Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark
Following the first day of sourcing and procurement benchmark, the second day of EBGs first Online Benchmark sessions were about the “other” side of the puzzle – finance and accounting. Finding ways to reduce administrative costs, improve efficiency and effectiveness have been a priority for a long time. Centralizing, captive or not, possibly outsourcing, and […]
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 […]
EBG | Play: Beyond the ‘Great Resignation’ – What the Future AP Department Looks Like
People are on the move. A full 35% plan to leave their current workplace an IOFM study state. At the same time 74% of businesses reported they were having trouble filling positions. Digitizing more and increasing automation seem the obvious. Not the least within accounts payable. The engagement rate among people who have productivity-enabling tech […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 | 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 | 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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective
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 […]
Source 2 Pay Summit 2016 | Collaboration | Trust | Sustainability
It is that time of the year – we are getting closer to the annual Source 2 Pay Summit during which EBG | Network gather managers from across businesses, across countries and across industries. Our philosophy is simple yet effective – allow experiences managers to share ideas and exchange knowledge with peers and expert organizations […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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. […]
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: 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: 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 […]
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 […]
EBG | Insight: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating
How do you scale solutions you already have or consider growing that platform of capabilities you wish you had? EBG | Network tuned in with Sam Jenks and Ashley Stephenson at Kodiak Rating to hear their view on how to enable procurement to utilize the possibilities out there. It is not shortage of technology that […]