Welcome Antti Koski, Head of Finance Development at Finnair to CFO Outlook 2024. On April 25th you who join the summit in Stockholm can choose to join his round table discussions. They focus on Transforming Finance Development through Process & Data-Centric focus. How do you distinguish between being process and/or data centric? Is there a […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Sustainability due diligence and governance for procurement in 2023
Procurement have been aware of the impact supply chain and external spend have on corporate sustainability agendas for a long time. A lot has happened on the legislation side as well as on corporate awareness. During this upcoming webinar EBG bring together brains and experiences across multiple aspects of corporate sustainability realization. Because even though […]
EBG | Webinar: Obligation or an Opportunity? The value of e-invoicing beyond compliance
With the continuous deployment of global e-invoicing regulations, businesses are facing a wave of mandated alterations to their current practices. France, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Hungary are just some of the most recent countries under scrutiny to start making changes to prepare for these mandates. Even though many of these countries are already practicing […]
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Finnair join CFO Outlook 2024
Welcome Antti Koski, Head of Finance Development at Finnair to CFO Outlook 2024. On April 25th you who join the summit in Stockholm can choose to join his round table discussions. They focus on Transforming Finance Development through Process & Data-Centric focus. How do you distinguish between being process and/or data centric? Is there a […]
Husqvarna join CFO Outlook 2024
EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Helena Liliefelt, Global Process Lead Record to Report at Husqvarna joining CFO Outlook 2024. She invites you who join the summit to take part in her round table discussions asking How do you harmonize end to end processes globally? The question is as old as doing business […]
Basware sponsor CFO Outlook 2024
A warm welcome to Basware joining CFO Outlook 2024 as an Expert Organization. On April 25th you who join the summit in Stockholm can take part in their round table discussions. And learn more from their corporate invoice automation expertise on stage. How is your company ensuring networking capital optimization? That your short term liabilities […]
Cirio Law Firm join CFO Outlook 2024
A warm welcome to David Frydlinger, Partner, Cirio Law Firm joining CFO Outlook 2024. On April 25th you who join the summit in Stockholm will learn what CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directives – mean to you working in finance. The new sustainability directives enforces a wide set of insights needed throughout any larger company. […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Swedish government taking public sector e-procurement one step further
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 […]
EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]
EBG | Insight: OpusCapita point out source-to-pay focus
We have all – globally – been part of a crisis affecting all parts of society. Apart from affecting actions taken to preserve short term liquidity it is relevant and of importance to learn how companies reflect over their then, now and ahead strategies to grow and improve. Study after study show companies are not […]
EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?
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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 | Play: How do you manage Business Control in transformation?
How are you handling the gray zones in between functions? Are you able to free up time in order to capture opportunities in the gray zones between functions? Doing just that is the focus for Volvo Group and Volvo Group Trucks Operations and below You can learn how. Marcus Sjöholm, VP SML Business Control at […]
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: How do you lead the digital transformation of your supply chains successfully?
What are your thoughts on how to fulfill a strategy? Especially a strategy that include digitalization? Most specifically a strategy including the change of behavior from a lot of individuals. And we know how easy it is to change behavior – right? Take part of the On Demand session hosted by Martin Starcke, Director of […]
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 | 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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?
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 | Interview: Part II | Visibility, control, and compliance by digitising Source-to-pay processes
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 […]
EBG | Insight: If all is about change – how can we make change more strategic
The art of change. The art of managing change. The art of managing strategic change. The art of change in a strategic way. Ask anyone and change management is on the top list of what is perceived the biggest challenge in any large organization. Why is it so hard to realize strategies? Strategies followed by […]
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
Can technology override the need for skills?
The short answer is of course – no. Technology cannot override the need for skills in any type organization. Something that is evident every time EBG gather peers. Yet, the opposite is also true – skills alone cannot cover the capabilities technology can offer. After last years Sourcing Outlook – the second annual – EBG […]
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 | 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. […]
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. […]
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: 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: 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 […]
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 | 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 […]