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Ericsson join CPO Outlook 2022

June 28, 2022 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Webinars

EBG | Webinar: How can Procurement respond to uncertainty?

The past years have taught Rolls-Royce and all other companies to be prepared for anything. Demand management and supplier collaboration have become a strategic part of the business. Welcome to a webinar where Dave Fryer, Transformation Director, Direct Procurement Excellence at Rolls-Royce and Henrik Nyberg, Account Executive and Nordic Leader at Ivalua will look at […]

EBG | Webinar: Smoke signals: Cascading trust down all tiers of your supply chain to build resilience and advantage

You probably do not have a full understanding or overview over your entire supply and supplier base. Maybe you cannot follow through all aspects from source to pay such as supplier performance, supply delivery according to contracts, line level follow up on goods received nor an invoice match. You are not alone. Yet the demands […]

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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 […]

Ikano Bank join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to Åsa Stoije, Head Of Sourcing and Procurement at Ikano Bank joining CPO Outlook 2022. On October 12th and 13th you who join us in Stockholm can choose her Theme Discussions, round table discussions. During an EBG summit the focus is on what peers and experts find important to share and discuss […]

Maersk Drilling join CPO Outlook 2022

EBG | Network welcome Grant Morrison, Director, Head of Category Management at Maersk Drilling to CPO Outlook 2022! Grant invite you who join us on October 12th and 13th in Stockholm to his Focused Theme Discussion. A session where a group of people will come together and dig really deep into a specified topic. In […]

Norden join CPO Outlook 2022

Procurement if often under staffed yet asked to have control over spend that is usually a huge part of corporate turnover. Being asked to help the business make informed decisions. Making sure supplies are secured and risk analyzed. Ensuring working capital is handled the best way possible. How do you achieve that and more if […]

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EBG | Insights

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: Basware reflections and advice

As companies get out of the first acute crisis mode there may be time to reflect. How much insight did we have into our spend and cash? How dependent on manual touches are you to get your source to pay processes through? How well can you use your entire spend and cash data to predict […]

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: 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. […]

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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 […]

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: 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 […]

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: Online Goods Receipt Q&A

A big congratulations to Ann-Louise Hallding, Sourcing & Procurement Process Development Specialist at Telia Company who – on February 17th – won a Sourcing & Procurement Hero Award for her fantastic internal job aiming to improve the companies procurement user experience. Telia Company CPO Jarkki Sakki gave Ann-Louise an award for ” Achievements in deliver value […]

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 […]

Focus Area: Source to Pay

EBG | Insight: CPO Talk with Björn Stenecker – Category management influencing compliance strategies

December 1, 2014 By ebgnetwork

What role will procurement take in future business development? No easy answers and for sure it differs depending on the type of business – but one thing is clear. We are seeing an externalization of business, having organizations invest many percent of revenue with external suppliers. What role should procurement take when value need to […]

EBG | Interview: Part II | Visibility, control, and compliance by digitising Source-to-pay processes

November 27, 2018 By ebgnetwork

In the second interview part, interviewing Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development at Zycus, we continue to discuss challenges and opportunities advancing procurement digitization. Or – rather – gathering and sharing those huge amounts of data floating around in any large company and making the best of it. Richard come from years of working with procurement […]

Beyond trends from industry experts | III

February 21, 2019 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Predictions for procurement trends in 2013

May 23, 2012 By Anna Bjaerkerud

What we do like about for instance Spend Matters is that they clearly separate direct and indirect spend when predicting the future. In our belief not doing so might kill any good intentions from any organisation since the internal focus still is (and should be) very different when it comes to raw materials on one […]

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Focus Area: Procurement

EBG | Insight: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?

February 19, 2016 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

The New Economics of Commerce Revolutionizing business relationships from me to we

February 17, 2014 By Anna Bjaerkerud

As old as the business itself is how to find ways to maximize profit, return on investment and maximized efficiency. Preferably with an as low effort as possible – if it is not clear that without the relationship we cannot survive, competition will take the best of us and no one else can step in […]

EBG | Insight: CFO Talk with Mikael Ebefors – Shared Competence Center’s part of end-to-end control enablement

November 18, 2014 By ebgnetwork

Centralizing finance has been a strategy for many years now. The initial reasons are often to reduce administration costs and lower wage arbitrage as well as enable transactional control. Moving from a pure transactional perspective place other opportunities and challenges in the center such as: How can downstream accounts payable help develop upstream procurement and […]

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Focus Area: Sourcing

EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?

May 25, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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

November 14, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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 | Insight: What is your contract management status?

June 17, 2019 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability

EBG | Play: Deploying supplier CSR monitoring across a global purchasing organization

February 23, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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

December 4, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group

April 18, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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. […]

Scope and type supply chain risk monitored

February 18, 2019 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Ikano Bank join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to Åsa Stoije, Head Of Sourcing and Procurement at Ikano Bank joining CPO Outlook 2022. On October 12th and 13th you who join us in Stockholm can choose her Theme Discussions, round table discussions. During an EBG summit the focus is on what peers and experts find important to share and discuss […]

Maersk Drilling join CPO Outlook 2022

EBG | Network welcome Grant Morrison, Director, Head of Category Management at Maersk Drilling to CPO Outlook 2022! Grant invite you who join us on October 12th and 13th in Stockholm to his Focused Theme Discussion. A session where a group of people will come together and dig really deep into a specified topic. In […]

Norden join CPO Outlook 2022

Procurement if often under staffed yet asked to have control over spend that is usually a huge part of corporate turnover. Being asked to help the business make informed decisions. Making sure supplies are secured and risk analyzed. Ensuring working capital is handled the best way possible. How do you achieve that and more if […]

EBG | Webinar: How can Procurement respond to uncertainty?

The past years have taught Rolls-Royce and all other companies to be prepared for anything. Demand management and supplier collaboration have become a strategic part of the business. Welcome to a webinar where Dave Fryer, Transformation Director, Direct Procurement Excellence at Rolls-Royce and Henrik Nyberg, Account Executive and Nordic Leader at Ivalua will look at […]

Getinge join CPO Outlook 2022

In what ways are you doing due diligence today? How about using artificial intelligence to make informed decisions. Finding the best possible sources of supply. Having machines sorting out transaction and governance flows and simply tapping in when an error occurs. Well. Most would probably agree that technology and data usage have developed in a […]

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