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EBG | Play: How can Source2Pay software assist in managing supplier risk and risky payments

July 1, 2022 By ebgnetwork

Risk management have had an exponential growth the past years for obvious reasons. As we enter new challenges in the market, risk awareness do too. But how well can you manage risk across sourcing, procurement and finance? How do you break down the huge task of end to end control into smaller pieces? During this […]

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EBG | Webinars

EBG | Webinar: How can Procurement respond to uncertainty?

The past years have taught Rolls-Royce and all other companies to be prepared for anything. Demand management and supplier collaboration have become a strategic part of the business. Welcome to a webinar where Dave Fryer, Transformation Director, Direct Procurement Excellence at Rolls-Royce and Henrik Nyberg, Account Executive and Nordic Leader at Ivalua will look at […]

EBG | Webinar: Smoke signals: Cascading trust down all tiers of your supply chain to build resilience and advantage

You probably do not have a full understanding or overview over your entire supply and supplier base. Maybe you cannot follow through all aspects from source to pay such as supplier performance, supply delivery according to contracts, line level follow up on goods received nor an invoice match. You are not alone. Yet the demands […]

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EBG | Summit News

Ericsson join CPO Outlook 2022

How much of your brainpower comes from your contingent workforce? EBG | Network welcome Ericsson who invite you who join CPO Outlook 2022 to a workshop to discuss process adherence. On October 13th you who join us in Stockholm can come together with a peer group led by Ericsson. Peers learning from peers and experts […]

Ikano Bank join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to Åsa Stoije, Head Of Sourcing and Procurement at Ikano Bank joining CPO Outlook 2022. On October 12th and 13th you who join us in Stockholm can choose her Theme Discussions, round table discussions. During an EBG summit the focus is on what peers and experts find important to share and discuss […]

Maersk Drilling join CPO Outlook 2022

EBG | Network welcome Grant Morrison, Director, Head of Category Management at Maersk Drilling to CPO Outlook 2022! Grant invite you who join us on October 12th and 13th in Stockholm to his Focused Theme Discussion. A session where a group of people will come together and dig really deep into a specified topic. In […]

Norden join CPO Outlook 2022

Procurement if often under staffed yet asked to have control over spend that is usually a huge part of corporate turnover. Being asked to help the business make informed decisions. Making sure supplies are secured and risk analyzed. Ensuring working capital is handled the best way possible. How do you achieve that and more if […]

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EBG | Insights

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 […]

EBG | Insight: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective

Aligning procurement targets to company targets, supporting the business and delivering results. Easily said but not so easily achieved? In far too many situations procurement and finance functions find themselves not reaching set targets, or trying to reach targets that simply aren’t aligned with overall business targets. What happen then is frustrated managers and even […]

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: 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 […]

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EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions

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: Actionable data insights in a complex organization during digital transformation

This session have several layers. Individual courage, corporate visions and market challenges. Many industries are facing changing market environments due to raw material shortages. Challenges keeping up to customer demands asking for shorter delivery times and price reductions. Finding ways to ensure data streams are up to date, used as intended and continuously improved. Qlik […]

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 […]

EBG | Play: How will you manage cash, savings and supplier risk ahead?

The past year and a half has brought with it market changes. Changes in where supplies come from, who buy it and how it is followed up upon. Corcentric have followed the market development carefully and through research they identified three areas of especial interest for businesses ahead; cash, savings and risk. Here you can […]

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 | 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 […]

Focus Area: Source to Pay

EBG Play | Shaping a dynamic and proactive procurement organization

June 15, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 | Insight: Basware reflections and advice

April 16, 2020 By ebgnetwork

As companies get out of the first acute crisis mode there may be time to reflect. How much insight did we have into our spend and cash? How dependent on manual touches are you to get your source to pay processes through? How well can you use your entire spend and cash data to predict […]

People | Process | Technology = what?!

February 21, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Flexibility vs Standard solutions within finance functions and Cost efficiency vs Added value to the business units?

January 14, 2014 By Anna Bjaerkerud

Agile organizations, cost reductions beyond reduced head count, continuous improvement and complete control over every and any data going in and out of the organization. Many large organizations have centralized their organization wide functions and processes to shared service organizations. The pro’s are obvious – why should many do what few can achieve and at […]

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Focus Area: Procurement

EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete

December 18, 2015 By ebgnetwork

Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]

How can anyone still question P2P and S2P importance?

February 25, 2014 By ebgnetwork

Sure, I admit, I haven’t worked neither in a large procurement or finance department nor have I been dependent on KPIs that clearly tells me what I need to do and what not to do. But still – how can we still be debating if end-to-end support and control is a valid business choice? Who […]

EBG | Insight: Swedish government taking public sector e-procurement one step further

December 3, 2014 By ebgnetwork

  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 […]

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Focus Area: Sourcing

EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement

June 23, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

Sourcing Outlook recap and Post Summit Report

November 14, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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 | Webinar: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?

January 2, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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. […]

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Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability

EBG | Play: Deploying supplier CSR monitoring across a global purchasing organization

February 23, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?

February 19, 2016 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group

April 18, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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. […]

EBG | Play: Leveraging Automation to Help Manage Supplier Risk

October 28, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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, […]

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Ericsson join CPO Outlook 2022

How much of your brainpower comes from your contingent workforce? EBG | Network welcome Ericsson who invite you who join CPO Outlook 2022 to a workshop to discuss process adherence. On October 13th you who join us in Stockholm can come together with a peer group led by Ericsson. Peers learning from peers and experts […]

Ikano Bank join CPO Outlook 2022

A warm welcome to Åsa Stoije, Head Of Sourcing and Procurement at Ikano Bank joining CPO Outlook 2022. On October 12th and 13th you who join us in Stockholm can choose her Theme Discussions, round table discussions. During an EBG summit the focus is on what peers and experts find important to share and discuss […]

Maersk Drilling join CPO Outlook 2022

EBG | Network welcome Grant Morrison, Director, Head of Category Management at Maersk Drilling to CPO Outlook 2022! Grant invite you who join us on October 12th and 13th in Stockholm to his Focused Theme Discussion. A session where a group of people will come together and dig really deep into a specified topic. In […]

Norden join CPO Outlook 2022

Procurement if often under staffed yet asked to have control over spend that is usually a huge part of corporate turnover. Being asked to help the business make informed decisions. Making sure supplies are secured and risk analyzed. Ensuring working capital is handled the best way possible. How do you achieve that and more if […]

EBG | Webinar: How can Procurement respond to uncertainty?

The past years have taught Rolls-Royce and all other companies to be prepared for anything. Demand management and supplier collaboration have become a strategic part of the business. Welcome to a webinar where Dave Fryer, Transformation Director, Direct Procurement Excellence at Rolls-Royce and Henrik Nyberg, Account Executive and Nordic Leader at Ivalua will look at […]

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