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 […]
Meet Nordic peers and experts and beyond in Stockholm in October
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Obligation or 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 […]
EBG | Webinar: Transforming procurement at Danish Crown
“Living and loving the journey”: transforming procurement at Danish Crown. Danish Crown is a unique organization, owned by 9,000 Danish farmers supplying pigs and cattle. It has 25,000 employees and 60-plus factories. Procurement transformation represents a dramatic shift in an enterprise’s structure, operations and bottom line, resulting from the establishment of a new collective mindset, […]
EBG | Summit News
Scania join CPO Outlook 2023
EBG are having very interesting discussions with those who will join CPO Outlook 2023. Linda Grubbström, Head of Strategy and Purchasing Way and Gustav Milesson, Senior Business Developer | Purchasing – Strategy & Purchasing Way at Scania will join us! On October 18th and 19th you who join the summit can draw from their experiences […]
GEP join CPO Outlook 2023
Strategy, software and managed services – welcome GEP joining CPO Outlook 2023 as an Expert Organization. GEP knowledge stretches over a wide range of skill-sets helping organizations achieve their goals. On October 18th & 19th you who join us in Stockholm can join round table discussions hosted by GEP. Learning from their and the peer […]
Sievo join CPO Outlook 2023
A warm welcome to Sievo – offering procurement analytics for data-driven enterprises – to CPO Outlook 2023. On October 18th + 19th procurement professionals come together to draw from each others experiences in Stockholm. Sievo join as an Expert Organization and will host round table discussions – Theme Discussions. Imagine sitting down with like minded […]
Onventis join CPO Outlook 2023
Welcome Onventis joining CPO Outlook 2023 as an Expert Organization. On October 18th & 19th you who join the summit in Stockholm can draw from the Onventis and Onventis team years of experience. For EBG | Network Onventis is a new acquaintance and we look forward to sharing this all-in-one procurement solution with the Nordic […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: From transactions to financial value ad
EBG first met with Pagero back in 2008. The era of e-invoicing for the masses was there – accounts payable managers were looking for ways to make those suppliers send e-invoices, the Norwegian government was looking for an approach to enforce e-invoicing to government authorities and the Danish government had already enforced business to government […]
EBG | Insight: Changing transaction platform with 170+ countries
Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
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: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail
EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 […]
EBG | Play: Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey
For what reasons are you digitizing and digitalizing – what is you digitization journey like? Reducing manual labor, minimizing paper, increasing information quality, speeding up decision making? During a recent webinar we got to learn from the Laerdal transformation journey. Joanne Emslie Bornø, Category manager at Laerdal Medical gave us a step by step run […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management Journey – Insights and Strategies from Tetra Pak
As a global company, Tetra Pak faces various challenges arising from an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment. Driven by strategic objectives focused on quality and food safety, sustainability and compliance, as well as competitiveness and innovation. Tetra Pak seeks to balance effectiveness vs efficiency in supply chain risk management. Now you […]
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 | Robotic Process Automation – What does it mean for Procurement and Finance?
We say WOW. What HUGE interest last weeks webinar session about robotic process automation with Göran Martinsson at PwC and Buster Olsborn at Basware generated. Across the globe and across functions. Thank you all who joined us live and all of you who registered. Leading up to this webinar EBG wrote a statement saying “In […]
EBG | Play: How do you ensure responsible sourcing practices in sourcing and procurement operations?
How do you work with social and trust factors in sourcing and procurement? This session was a lot. First of all Sweden, US and Denmark came together. Four competences such as Thomas Lyng-Jeppesen, Nordics Sustainable Sourcing & Supply Chain Lead, Senior Manager and Poppy Brewer, Responsible Sourcing Global Lead, Manager – Strategy & Consulting at […]
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 | Play: Benchmark your source-to-pay performance against the best
The idea of “the best” in process automation may be shifting. From lowering the number of FTEs and SLAs focusing on transactional efficiency. To improved value creation and data insights fed back to the organization. How do you get there and how do you know where Your organization stands? Take a look at the on […]
People | Process | Technology = what?!
Not too rarely EBG | Network speak to professionals with One aspect of a strategy in total focus. “We want to discuss digitalization!” or “We want to talk about implementing a system” or “We need to talk about data management!” or “We must discuss centralization” or “Compliance is what we need to talk about”. And […]
EBG | Insight: CPO Talk with Dr. Marcell Vollmer, CPO at SAP about aligning from source to pay
It is fair to say that the possibilities in keeping control and gather the facts in any type supply chain has increased dramatically past ten years. At the same time, more of businesses have been externalized and finance and procurement as we once new them does not look the same. What we buy and how, […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 | 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: 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 […]
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 | Insight: What is your contract management status?
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]