A few years into the hype: Where do RPA, ML and AI stand today? Not an easy question to answer in a defined way during 45 minutes. But we try. Here you find the recording of an online session EBG held together with Basware and guest speakers Forrester. Fun fact that almost to the date […]
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EBG | Webinars
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 | Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Management Journey – Insights and Strategies from Tetra Pak
How to Succeed Along Your Supply Chain Risk Management Journey Insights and Strategies from Tetra Pak enabled by riskmethods. Welcome to a hands on session bringing up solutions to challenges most organizations face today. Creating supply chain insights, ensuring supplier base resilience and finding the balance in effectiveness vs efficiency in supply chain risk management. […]
EBG | Summit News
Basware join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Basware joining Sourcing Outlook 2021 as an Expert Organization. On November 25th sourcing and procurement professionals will come together online. Together sharing experiences in ways to ensure business insight, resilience and growth. How do you gain spend control quicker? How do you analyze supplier data more accurate? How do you create […]
Icertis join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Icertis as an Expert Organization joining Sourcing Outlook 2021. It is evident that as companies continue to evolve the need to deepen supplier relationships has never been more important. Knowing your supply chain, understanding what is and will be. During Sourcing Outlook 2021 on November 25th you can choose to join […]
EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2021
Sustainability and CSR have gone from codes of conduct statements to real time insight exchange within the buyer and supplier ecosystem. Or so it should at least. EBG | Network welcome EcoVadis joining Sourcing Outlook 2021 on November 25th as an Expert Organization. An Expert Organization knowing a lot about taking ideal ideas into actions […]
Bureau van Dijk join Sourcing Outlook 2021
Where does insight management sit within your organization? How do you ensure the right people get the right information at the right time in order to make informed decisions? EBG | Network welcome Bureau van Dijk – A Moody’s Analytics company, to Sourcing Outlook 2021. They ensure better-informed decisions can be made based on facts. […]
EBG | Insights
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: Nokia experiences in Source to Pay optimation
They don’t grow on trees – process owners and process development professionals. But in Nokia, defining and optimizing source to pay has been targeted as a core process in need of structure and control. At Source to Pay Summit 2014, Antti Koski, Business Process Lead at Nokia (now Microsoft) moderated very appreciated discussions about continuously […]
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: Cloud service agreements, lock-in effects and data format issues
As the demand to cut wage arbitrage and minimize administration costs keep growing, solutions like cloud services grow and will keep growing. Low cost, flexibility and agility may be reasons why cloud services are growing fast. Services in the cloud is of course here to stay and there are matters to consider when signing an […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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: 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: 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: 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: 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, […]
EBG Play | How data driven are you?
Data is every where and data is everything yet if you ask most organizations they would probably state that still a lot of information “sit” in excel sheets and that much work is still managed manually. So how do you know to what extent increased automation and data insights can help improve efficiency and bottom […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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 […]
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 | 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: 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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 […]
EBG Play: Europe: EU Commission not against legislative actions
Just back from the final and 7th Peppol-conference in Rome EBG got an interview with Director General, Mr Francisco García Morán at the EU Commission, the closing key note speaker at the conference. Peppol in it’s self is a strange project – loved and hated in the ICT market and not yet beyond pilot testing. […]
LinkedIn: Should procurement be delivering very high ROIs?
It is interesting valuating views of different types of procurement. Often we say “procurement” although there is a huge difference if we mean direct or indirect spend, public or private sector, services, goods or manufacturing etc. At least we need to know if we are talking about direct or indirect spend. This article reasons about […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 | 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]