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. […]
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EBG | Webinars
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 […]
EBG | Webinar: How Source2Pay software can assist in managing supplier risk and risky payments
Do you have an end to end perspective over your supply chain and procurement flows? Do you really? Can you tell who your suppliers are and what you buy from them? How do you follow up your contracted savings? Can you highlight supply dependencies across your suppliers and suppliers suppliers? And – can you tell […]
EBG | Summit News
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. […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay
On November 17th 2015, at Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, procurement and finance professionals will meet up at Ariba Commerce Summit 2015. During this summit you can network with practitioners and experts and exchange experiences, learn about future procurement developments and today’s technology driven market. Listen to the below interview with Charlotte Wedell-Neergaard, Nordic […]
EBG | Insight: 7 out of 10 or 46% of spend contingent workforce?
Winning the talent war and at the same time reducing cost does not seemingly go hand in hand. Companies have found ways to reduce wage costs by centralizing and outsourcing HR, finance, procurement and many more functions. The wage arbitrage game however is apparently coming to an end. A contingent workforce may historically have been […]
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 | Insight: How do you measure procurement?
When talking about how to develop procurement further the issue of how to measure sucess is one of the most valid topics. Savings of course being and having been the number one metric it is still a challenge to truly measure both people and processes. At EBG’s annual Source 2 Pay Summit a number of […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
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. […]
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: 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: How is Nokia transforming its Procurement & Finance processes
How do you define, map, form and execute cross function and cross organization processes? How are you even able to define what your processes are like and how well the function? In what ways are you ensuring you reach your desired outcome based on the strategies you have set? Here you can view the On […]
EBG | Play: International trade and compliance in 2020 – what is new?
Companies with global operations must comply with new and changing trade agreements and regulations. This ensures ethical practices in international trade around the world. In most of Europe, trade is governed by the EU standard, which defines policies based on EU’s founding principle of free trade among its members. Changing landscape of international trade and […]
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: Source to Pay
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]
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: 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 | Play: A toolbox for measurable purchase to pay automation
Hands up how many of you have had, have or will have a digitalization vision or premonition? For many that lie in the future but let’s say anything “e” in doing business? Anything electronic supporting business transactions, processes and ways of doing business is not new anymore yet reaching those visions may still prove to […]
Focus Area: Procurement
RT: Purchase to Pay best practice – the cost of ignoring it
According to the research, for a medium sized company handling 250,000-500,000 invoices per annum, nearly 80 people are required just to handle exceptions. That could amount to (at an average cost per FTE of $50,000) about $4 million per annum. Arguing why put any effort in to looking at P2P processes has been a challenge, […]
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. […]
EBG | Insight: How do you measure procurement?
When talking about how to develop procurement further the issue of how to measure sucess is one of the most valid topics. Savings of course being and having been the number one metric it is still a challenge to truly measure both people and processes. At EBG’s annual Source 2 Pay Summit a number of […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]
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 […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | IV
An online session is a perfect way to gather know how from across the world. To enable knowledgeable professionals to share extensive experiences without leaving the office. On March 12th Jon Hansen, Procurement Insights, gather industry experts such as David Loseby, CPO, Advisor, Author and Global Board of Trustees Member of CIPS to discuss procurement […]