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 […]
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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 | Webinar: 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. Are you up to speed with […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Shaping the future of businesses
There are a lot of demands on procurement these days. Be agile, stay connected with the markets and stakeholders, cut costs and increase growth, innovate production, inform all, stay informed, reduce risk and stay on top of all possibilities available. Having a CEO, CFO, functional leader AND supplier focus at all times. How do you […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Telenor Procurement Company join Sourcing Outlook 2020
What are the paths towards reaching those often high set targets most companies have? What are the paths procurement are taking to ad value to the business, mitigate risk, reduce cost and continuously develop? EBG | Network welcome Andreas Tibblin, Senior Specialist P2P at Telenor Procurement Company to Sourcing Outlook 2020. Andreas will share his […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 […]
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 | Shaping a dynamic and proactive procurement organization
Following a very interesting webinar held by Peter Böhm at Trelleborg Industrial Solutions an english summary of this Swedish webinar is in place. Peter shared how he has aimed at developing a dynamic and proactive procurement organization and shared how he measure and organize in order to achieve set targets. Procurement Directors wanting to lead […]
EBG Play: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?
There is a lot of talk about collaborative and connective relationships. It is fare to say that the possibilities today could enable a completely seamless and transparent approach to doing business. So are we? Take a look at and listen to two snapshots from this years Source to Pay Summit where Kate Vitasek gave a […]
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: 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. […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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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 […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 | 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: 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 […]