And does it matter? What are the different layers you could consider the relationships you create with your suppliers are not wasted due to poor supplier experiences. That valuable data is not missing or unable to interpret and make use of. On May 6th you who join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 can join one […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How Nokia is transforming its Procurement & Finance processes
And especially “How Nokia is transforming its Procurement & Finance processes with Celonis Execution Management System”. Welcome to join a hands on webinar where we learn more about process mining and Celonis Execution Management System. The market has been buzzing for some time now – process mining is a subject that continuously comes up in […]
EBG | Webinar: How AI is changing Procurement in 2021 and beyond
A warm welcome to the first EBG | Webinar of 2021! With lessons learned from the past year and reflections on what need to be achieved ahead, EBG invite you to join us together with Medius. Date: February 11th 2021Time: 2:00-2:45 PM CETPlace: Your computer/tablet/phoneLanguage: EnglishCost: Free of charge but requires registrationOrganizer: EBG | Network […]
EBG | Insights
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: Arjan van Weele about the need for change
He is a household name within procurement and supply chain – Arjan van Weele. He holds the (parttime) NEVI-Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management, at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS). Arjan acts as an independent boardroom consultant to many large companies on procurement strategy and governance issues. He […]
EBG | Insight: Part I | Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer, Tradeshift
Is the world spinning faster or are we just getting older? Well, looking back surely previous generation would state the same “I can’t almost keep up”. How about having been in a trade for a multitude of years and seeing it change dramatically? Many probably have that feeling – and at the same time – […]
EBG | Insight: Tradeshift reflections over anti-fragile supply chains
There are many of us trying to make sense over what happens in a crisis. The actions taken and the impact that has in the long run. Can there ever be anything good coming out of a crisis? Some say there is. EBG interviewed Mikkel Hippe Brun, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Greater China […]
EBG | Summit News
How do you manage supplier experience?
And does it matter? What are the different layers you could consider the relationships you create with your suppliers are not wasted due to poor supplier experiences. That valuable data is not missing or unable to interpret and make use of. On May 6th you who join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 can join one […]
Creating real value within Sustainable Procurement?
Today it is two weeks until a select number of people meet online for the 11th annual Source 2 Pay Summit. A day where sourcing, procurement, finance and process professionals meet to learn from each other. To understand how to develop different parts of what is an end to end structure. By focusing on the […]
How do you create real value within Sustainable Procurement?
That most if not all companies have placed sustainability at the top of a list of measurable strategies is clear. It is also clear that it is not as easy as presenting a code of conduct nor spreading that code of conduct. Enabling sustainability goals that probably affect decisions many make in an organization is […]
Dentsply Sirona join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021
EBG | Network welcome Aneesh Venkataraman, Manager, Procurement Tools, Technology & Automation and Neil Banfield, Business Analyst Global Data Warehouse & Corporate BI at Dentsply Sirona to Source 2 Pay Summit 2021. On May 6th you who join the summit online can join Theme Discussions hosted by Aneesh. Theme Discussions are limited seats, moderator led, […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: The Elephant in the Room: S2P Ecosystem or S2P Single Suite?
Say six salmons in a salmon box really fast 10 times. Do you have that expression in English? Probably not but it came to mind asking attendees the question if they choose to adjust processes to systems or systems to processes. And just like pronouncing complex sentences so all understand them – deciding which system […]
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: 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 | Online Spend Management Benchmark Recordings
Thank you for being a part of or wanting to take part of the EBG Online Spend Management Benchmark aired November 26th. Together with ProSourcia, EBG can provide you with a study summary and new fresh data from the live session. Data that to a large extent comply with the study data. Joining EBG Online […]
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: What is Source-to-pay digital transformation?
Choosing to rephrase the webinar title based on what came out during the recent session in which Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer at Tradeshift presented his experiences and visions. It is still so – even though much less than before – that source to pay to some is viewed as transactional efficiency and […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
How to master supplier communication and data
If you could line up all the supplier data in your critical and non critical systems – how many miles would they reach? How much time is spent managing poor data? How many decisions may have been conducted based on non optimal information? The discussion about how to tackle the often thousands of suppliers and […]
EBG | Insight: Working capital the essence of procure to pay efficiency
Ravindra Rao is Finance Director & Global PMO Leader at Honeywell. His knowledge in cross functional, cross organizational, cross industry process development comes from years of experiences. For ten years he has been working at Honeywell with finance transformation. Their strategy has been to pay vendors on time and work with both internal and external […]
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 | Insight: The Lundbeck business service center and Ariba story
We live in a rapidly changing world and businesses need to stay agile. Finding ways to lower cost and ad value is on all businesses agenda. Actually doing so is another question. Lundbeck has undertaken several steps to ensure they enable the strategy set. “We want to invest significantly in growth opportunities, maximize the growth […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 Webinar: Enabling purchase-to-pay spend control linking strategies, processes and technology together
Date: Thursday November 5th Time: 11:00-11:45 AM CET (12:00-12:45 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >>Click here to register NOTE: This webinar has over 120 registrants and take 100 attendees joining live. Should you not be able to join the session […]
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? […]
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 […]
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. […]
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: 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 | Insight: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating
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 […]
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 […]