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EBG | Webinar: How can Procurement respond to uncertainty?

May 20, 2022 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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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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EBG | Summit News

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 […]

UPM join CPO Outlook 2022

What is true end to end source to pay to you and how do you implement it? This is what Jukka-Pekka Hämäläinen, Vice President, Source to Pay Operations at UPM invite you to discuss with him and a peer group. More companies than ever understand the value in end to end spend and cash insights. […]

AstraZeneca join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to Cecilia Persson, Head of Global Procurement Indirect & Enabling Functions at AstraZeneca joining CPO Outlook 2022. Cecilia invite you to join her Theme Discussions, round table discussions on October 12th. Her discussions will focus on sustainability from a procurement perspective – much needed experience exchange! On October 12th and 13th you […]

MTR Nordic Group join CPO Outlook 2022

EBG | Network welcome Benny Hall, CPO at MTR Nordic Group to CPO Outlook 2022! How do you keep category management strategies and plans agile? With all disruptions in supply chain today how to you adapt? How are your strategies truly connected to business acumen? This and more will be discussed during the Theme Discussions […]

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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: CPO Talk with Dr. Marcell Vollmer, CPO at SAP about aligning from source to pay

It is fair to say that the possibilities in keeping control and gather the facts in any type supply chain has increased dramatically past ten years. At the same time, more of businesses have been externalized and finance and procurement as we once new them does not look the same. What we buy and how, […]

EBG | Insight: How do you improve Po – Goods recevied and Invoice Matching Rates?

What is the ultimate proof if a source to pay process is flawless? If sourcing measures taking place, contracts being written, purchases being made, goods received and invoices being received are all part of a coherent flow – all linked together as pieces in a puzzle. Matching. Ask any accounts payable and they will probably […]

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 […]

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EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions

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 | 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: 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, […]

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: Solving the e-procurement user adoption challenge

The title of this webinar holds many promises. Could there be a single formula that enable organizations to use systems as intended? May it be the way they are implemented, how many hours are spent on education, how processes are set up or who are able to use it. Of course all of that matters […]

EBG Play | Beyond Trends: “10 Transformational Realities” redefining procurement

It was a handful, we give you that – as it so often is doing business today in a global environment. We were scheduled to meet online from Canada, India, UK, Sweden and the US – preferably on web camera. We almost made it! What we were able to achieve is to have several insights […]

Focus Area: Source to Pay

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 […]

EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?

August 24, 2015 By ebgnetwork

Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]

EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective

November 21, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Insight: Swedish government taking public sector e-procurement one step further

December 3, 2014 By ebgnetwork

  The Swedish National Financial Management Authority are recommending the use of PEPPOL infrastructure and message formats being used in future procurement and finance operations to and from public sector. The PEPPOL structure is aimed at cross border business and cross border transactions being sent. It can be used – as it is to some […]

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Focus Area: Procurement

EBG | Insight: Basware reflections and advice

April 16, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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 | Play: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?

February 19, 2018 By ebgnetwork

“Artificial intelligence is not purely “artificial.” The ideal approach amplifies human intuition with machine intelligence to create a powerful multiplier effect. That’s augmented intelligence.” A statement made by Qlik with the headline “From BI to “AI””. EBG | Network hosted a webinar together with Paul Winsor at Qlik. The topic what augmented intelligence mean within the […]

EBG | Insight: Spend control through rapid access to information

April 8, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Focus Area: Sourcing

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 | Webinar: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?

January 2, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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 | 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: 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 […]

EBG | Play: Beckers Groups sustainability change management journey

May 25, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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, […]

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EBG | Insight: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating

December 7, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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? […]

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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 […]

UPM join CPO Outlook 2022

What is true end to end source to pay to you and how do you implement it? This is what Jukka-Pekka Hämäläinen, Vice President, Source to Pay Operations at UPM invite you to discuss with him and a peer group. More companies than ever understand the value in end to end spend and cash insights. […]

AstraZeneca join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to Cecilia Persson, Head of Global Procurement Indirect & Enabling Functions at AstraZeneca joining CPO Outlook 2022. Cecilia invite you to join her Theme Discussions, round table discussions on October 12th. Her discussions will focus on sustainability from a procurement perspective – much needed experience exchange! On October 12th and 13th you […]

MTR Nordic Group join CPO Outlook 2022

EBG | Network welcome Benny Hall, CPO at MTR Nordic Group to CPO Outlook 2022! How do you keep category management strategies and plans agile? With all disruptions in supply chain today how to you adapt? How are your strategies truly connected to business acumen? This and more will be discussed during the Theme Discussions […]

GEP join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to GEP joining CPO Outlook 2022 as an Expert Organization! On October 12th and 13th you who join us in Stockholm can choose to take part in Theme Discussions hosted by GEP. Together with a peer group and GEP you can explore their and the peer group experiences in a certain area. […]

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