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 | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: The Elephant in the Room: S2P Ecosystem or S2P Single Suite?
Things are shifting in the Source-to-Pay (S2P) world and it’s time to address the elephant in the room. S2P ecosystem or S2P single suite for automating your procurement and finance functions? Do you go to one vendor and get access to a multitude of tools and services under one umbrella – or do you seek out different […]
EBG| Webinar: Leveraging Automation to Help Manage Supplier Risk
Many companies wait for a supplier event to hit before identifying the risks lurking within the supplier base. Recent world events have proven to us how detrimental this can be.What are lessons to be learned and experiences to be drawn? Join our upcoming webinar! Date: October 21st 2020Time: 2:00-3:00 PM CESTPlace: Your computer/tablet/phoneLanguage: EnglishCost: Free […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Augmented Analytics: Leading procurement with new data insights
How far will digitization and automation take us? What will the interaction between humans and systems look like ahead? There are discussions about predictive analytics, augmented analytics, guided buying and self service – all dependent on really good and solid data. In this interview we learn about the reflections made by Francesco Colavita, Vice President […]
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 | Summit News
C2FO join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
On October 7th you can meet with people – face to face – you might not otherwise meet for a very long time. If ever. On October 7th, EBG | Network host the 10th annual Source 2 Pay Summit – online. The pandemic is on one hand forcing us to find new ways of interacting […]
SKF join Sourcing Outlook 2020
If you want to learn from experiences digitizing a global procurement organization – learn from SKF. If you want to learn from experiences changing stakeholder mindset – learn from SKF. If you want to draw from experiences in how to use technology to help achieve the above – learn from SKF. In short – on […]
Ivalua join Sourcing Outlook 2020
How are you growing the cross company and cross organization platform procurement really is? Finding synergies, exploring direct and indirect boundaries, enabling stakeholders to make better decisions, creating insights and communicating results. Working within procurement today is filled with possibilities. And the technology here to help. EBG are happy to welcome Ivalua as an Expert […]
Kate Vitasek join Sourcing Outlook 2020
Since the beginning of the pandemic, EBG have considered what is happening with buyer-supplier relationships. For years now EBG have shared and focused on ways to collaborate. To ensure both parties in business relationships are equals. That win-win and common desired outcome are the driving forces in as many business relationships as is possible. Then […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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: 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: 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 | 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: Building Partner Enabled Digital Offerings through AI
Facts and fiction. It is evident – through numerous research reports – that procurement and supply chain are not using for instance Artificial Intelligence in any major way. Yet. McKinsey state that a mere 2% of respondents have a supply chain oriented digital strategy. Deloitte state “The level and speed of digitalisation across procurement functions […]
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: Source to Pay
Follow up after Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
A huge thank you to all who came to the 9th version of Source 2 Pay Summit in Stockholm! It is a pleasure seeing all the connections taking place, all the conversations and all the experience exchange. Informal and to the point. All share more or less the same challenges! Post Summit Report Take a […]
EBG | Play: Historic spend and future needs
EBG | Network want to send a big thank you to Irene Tibbling at Stora Enso who generously shared her sourcing and procurement visualization experiences. Also a big thank you to Qlik (in Swedish go to Qlik) who enabled the webinar to take place. Webinar recording Here you can view the recorded webinar session: Poll […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | II
Leading up to the upcoming Beyond trends for procurement webinar March 12th, Jon Hansen at Procurement Insights asked his network of experts about their thoughts. In certain instances, I received brief yet insightful commentaries from industry thought leaders as well as practitioners via email. Other times, I had the opportunity to talk with these individuals […]
Trondheim Municipality, Norway: Challenges and possibilities in purchase to pay process development
In Norway as well as other Nordic and European countries actions has been made to lower administration costs through e-invoicing and e-procurement. However, the most sucessful municipalities has also been able to improve procurement processes through optimising from purchase-to-pay. Kjell O. Arntzen is an experienced developer who will share his experiences and best practise advice. […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Insight: ROI, obstacles and future proof P2P
The other day EBG | Network “met” with Eric Wilson, Vice President Purchase to pay with Basware in the US. We spoke about his experiences in creating purchase to pay business cases, ensuring ROI, how to ensure success and how to future proof purchase to pay development.
RT: The significance of cloud for manufacturing companies
EBG has asked a question. What significance the on-premise or cloud based delivery model have for C-level managers? What a cloud based solution can achieve in terms of agility etc – yes, of course, but the on going Cloud discussion itself, and there is a lot, what importance does it have? In this article Forbes […]
RT: Building a #Procurement Business Case for #CFOs
It is interesting investigating the driving forces different functions have. Really impossible to say in general, but maybe becasue we do, we still should look into what makes different functions “tick”. In this article from Spend Matters Jason Busch describes a kind of cynical view of what interests a CFO but never the less it […]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]