A warm welcome to EBGs long term partner Basware, joining Sourcing Outlook 2020 as an Expert Organization. Let’s face it. If not before – what 2020 has brought us in terms of scattered workforce’s, scattered supply chains and scattered transaction flows… Now companies must consider how information and transactions flow through the organization and in […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Datadriven måluppfyllelse på Uppsala kommun
Uppsala Kommun är i stark tillväxt med stor framtidstro. Idag med 220 000 invånare – år 2050 kan kommunen ha 340 000 invånare. Att växa hållbart, innovativt och nyskapande är en fastslagen vision. Sedan årsskiftet 2018/2019 är inköp och upphandlingsenheten en egen stab med Susanne Afzelius, Upphandlingschef Chef Staben för Upphandling och inköp, rapporterandes direkt […]
EBG | Webinar: International trade and compliance in 2020 – what’s 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. Are you up to speed with […]
EBG | Insights
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: Supplier management and master data with HICX
Hands up if you have ever experienced challenges with supplier related data spread across systems and functions. Looking at your supplier data – how many different ways and times can data be entered? What if you could join a platform that could work across system silos (ERP and P2P systems for instance)? That enable companies […]
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Basware join Sourcing Outlook 2020
A warm welcome to EBGs long term partner Basware, joining Sourcing Outlook 2020 as an Expert Organization. Let’s face it. If not before – what 2020 has brought us in terms of scattered workforce’s, scattered supply chains and scattered transaction flows… Now companies must consider how information and transactions flow through the organization and in […]
EcoVadis join Sourcing Outlook 2020
“Procurement is in the eye of a storm.” This is how the Theme Discussions led by EcoVadis at Sourcing Outlook 2020 begin. EcoVadis are joining Sourcing Outlook on October 8th, inviting You to discuss measurable value and ROI in sustainable supply chains. The year 2020 has been a challenge for most companies. Either by seeing […]
MTR Nordic join Sourcing Outlook 2020
Are you about to build a new procurement organization? About to re-structure an existing organization? Considering what you should focus on, in what order you should develop competences and where to start? EBG | Network welcome Benny Hall, Head of Purchasing MTR Tech and Purchasing lead at MTR Nordic to Sourcing Outlook 2020. He will […]
Volvo Cars join Sourcing Outlook 2020
EBG have had an eye for Lovisa Söderholm, Vice President Procurement Hardware at Volvo Cars for many years and we are now being able to share her experiences! EBG have had an eye for Volvo Cars for years too and continue to share their journey in a market changing really fast. On October 8th you […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 […]
EBG | Play: Aker Solutions: Reputational and financial risk control
It is always a treat hearing real life experiences from different industries and with different angles based on the same premises. That today a lot of doing business has to do with managing and developing external supplier relationships. EBG | Network is very happy that Hilde Kjensjord, Senior Manager, SCM Governance, Risk & Compliance at […]
EBG Play | Supply Chain Transparency..
..the Next P2P Evolution – a webinar hosted by EBG | Network enabled by Tradeshift recently and below you can view it all over again. Mike Jud and Jonathan Laverentz shared their different “up” and “down” stream experiences from years of working with different type organizations and technology. The first reflection being that seeing supply […]
EBG | Play: How to manage buying of complex categories in eProcurement
EBG recently hosted a webinar featuring Martin Casserdahl at OpusCapita sharing thoughts and ideas about how to manage buying of complex categories in eprocurement. This specific question was evident at EBGs spring summit Source 2 Pay Summit too where one question arose touching upon this topic: How can an eprocurement system manage both those wanting […]
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 | 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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
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 […]
EBG Play: Outsoucing your sourcing?
It is not a new topic but it has been more and more discussed – even in procurement – what should you do yourself and what should you outsource? If procurement is only seen as an administrative service (as accounts payable, wrongly, for so many years has been seen as) then the math is probably […]
EBG | Insight: CPO Talk with Björn Stenecker – Category management influencing compliance strategies
What role will procurement take in future business development? No easy answers and for sure it differs depending on the type of business – but one thing is clear. We are seeing an externalization of business, having organizations invest many percent of revenue with external suppliers. What role should procurement take when value need to […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Insight: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?
Getting an understanding into an increasingly important and increasingly global supply chain is and will be even more significant. Looking at the progress of EBG | Network over the past five years, the strategic increase of a holistic approach to sourcing, procurement and finance is the most apparent. It seems most companies today know that […]
Prevent or react on fraud and cybercrime?
Before the summer, EBG held a webinar together with OpusCapita focusing on risk and fraud within the procure to pay and cash management end-to-end flow. There are numerous research and studies highlighting that fraud is an increasing reality. The Association for financial professionals say that 62% of their study respondents claim they were targets of […]
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 | 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. […]
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 | Insight: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?
Getting an understanding into an increasingly important and increasingly global supply chain is and will be even more significant. Looking at the progress of EBG | Network over the past five years, the strategic increase of a holistic approach to sourcing, procurement and finance is the most apparent. It seems most companies today know that […]
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: Aker Solutions: Reputational and financial risk control
It is always a treat hearing real life experiences from different industries and with different angles based on the same premises. That today a lot of doing business has to do with managing and developing external supplier relationships. EBG | Network is very happy that Hilde Kjensjord, Senior Manager, SCM Governance, Risk & Compliance at […]
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 […]