EBG | Network welcome Morten Korgaard Johansson, Procurement Manager, Procurement Infrastructure at Arla Foods to Sourcing Outlook 2021. He invite peers to join a discussion about data usage beyond spend data. How can procurement and the business collaborate to increase transparency and increase data quality? You who join Sourcing Outlook 2021 on November 25th choose […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Deliver cost control through your non-permanent workforce?
How do you achieve that? Companies worldwide are increasing their use of non-employees to create a more agile and resilient workforce. At the same time, the challenge of engaging and managing this extended workforce has grown. This area has intrigued EBG | Network for a long time. How much of your workforce consist of non-employee […]
EBG | Webinar: Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey
And especially “Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey: increasing transparency and agility during challenging times”. It is one thing developing in a void, with plenty of time taking care of a static environment where everything stay the same and change can happen as planned when planned. Never experienced that? Probably not and especially not the past year […]
EBG | Summit News
Arla Foods join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Morten Korgaard Johansson, Procurement Manager, Procurement Infrastructure at Arla Foods to Sourcing Outlook 2021. He invite peers to join a discussion about data usage beyond spend data. How can procurement and the business collaborate to increase transparency and increase data quality? You who join Sourcing Outlook 2021 on November 25th choose […]
Danish Crown join Sourcing Outlook 2021
They are on a mission and EBG | Network are glad to take a small part. Welcome Danish Crown joining Sourcing Outlook 2021. On November 25th you who join the summit can choose to join a Theme Discussion – online round table discussion – led by Magdalena Pawlowicz, Senior Procurement Business Process Expert, Center of […]
Mission Insight | Digital Procurement with KWS & Chr. Hansen
When something becomes so house hold it stops meaning something. Words that hold an eternity of promises yet is really hard to realize. Digital procurement. So, EBG asked two experiences practitioners from two different industries what They mean by Digital Procurement and how digitizing and digitalization of procurement – in their mind – can help […]
Ericsson & Orkla join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network welcome Sophie Arildsson, Senior Manager – Sustainable Sourcing at Orkla and Fredrik Taube, Head of Sourcing Business Development at Ericsson to Sourcing Outlook 2021. They join a session where we will listen to their experiences and draw from their perspectives. The focus is “What role can procurement play ensuring sustainability strategies come […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: The Hackett Group on world class finance and procurement performance
It is always a pleasure listening to consultants with a clear holistic approach to procurement and finance development. Tom Bangemann at The Hackett Group is one of those who are able to showcase why procurement is getting more strategic interest than before, why wage arbitrage and short term cost reductions will soon come to an […]
EBG | Insight: 4 companies, 3 questions about financial supply chain developments
EBG recently met up with Esa Tihilä, Basware, Jonas Edlund, Pagero, Markus Ament, Taulia and Kai Finck, Ariba an SAP Company to ask about the market developments within the financial supply chain market. What is that then, really? Well, it may of course be anything from ERP systems, to workflow systems, to e-invoicing to supply […]
EBG | Insight: 7 out of 10 or 46% of spend contingent workforce?
Winning the talent war and at the same time reducing cost does not seemingly go hand in hand. Companies have found ways to reduce wage costs by centralizing and outsourcing HR, finance, procurement and many more functions. The wage arbitrage game however is apparently coming to an end. A contingent workforce may historically have been […]
EBG | Insight: If all is about change – how can we make change more strategic
The art of change. The art of managing change. The art of managing strategic change. The art of change in a strategic way. Ask anyone and change management is on the top list of what is perceived the biggest challenge in any large organization. Why is it so hard to realize strategies? Strategies followed by […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Public sector contract compliance and spend control
In a popular webinar Daniel Nesz at Södersjukhuset AB shared how they have used a Qlik solution to increase visibility and control over both contract compliance and spend pattern overview. Public sector have a never ending demand to use money wisely as well as having extensive legal aspects of how, with who and in what […]
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: 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 | Insight: A supplier approach to e-invoicing adding value to the customer
When talking about e-invoicing it usually comes from a buyer perspective. Receiving an electronic invoice in its basics mean cutting manual handling costs. In the long run standardization and automation mean business control. But what about the suppliers point of view? Even though it is not necessary to actually send an e-invoice in order for […]
EBG | Play: Structuring global procurement
It is no easy task creating and managing global organizations. It is no easy task managing global procurement organizations – end-to-end. This is why it is extra inspiring to listen to Tamara Braun, CPO at SAP sharing how they have chosen to structure their global procurement organization. How they have chosen to set up their […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management Best Practices: Nokia
A big thank you to Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management at Nokia for generously sharing how they are stepping up their supply chain risk management ways of working. In a session enabled by riskmethods you can learn both from Tua, riskmethods and from those attending live. Supply Chain Risk Management in […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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 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 […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | III
On March 12th professionals from across the globe will meet online to learn from each other about what trends may mean now and ahead for procurement. Jon Hansen is gathering intelligence leading up to the webinar and you too can draw from those insights via Beyond trends form industry experts | I and Beyond trends […]
How to continuously improve your Source-to-Pay process?
Every organization have a source to pay process – defined and mapped or not. Each such process runs through numerous functions, touches on various KPIs and pre-defined strategies. Organizations that have taken charge over S2P processes are growing and the question might be why not more have done like Nokia, defining the process and flow […]
Focus Area: Procurement
LinkedIn: Tail End Spend: How does your organization manage this spend?
Having followed this discussion for some days, let’s share some insights. Tail spend. Maverick spend. And then some headache. EBG have yet to meet with an organisation that has taken control over their tail end spend. We have heard about the 80/20 rule for so long we have stopped asking questions about the rest of […]
EBG | Insight: Taking a holistic approach to procurement
It is easier said than done. Multiple stakeholders, multiple markets, multiple systems – and yet – it is getting easier to achieve end-to-end control from source to pay. In the below interview we “meet up” with Regine Böhm-Gams at Capgemini IBX Business Network to learn more about their view on procurement development. EBG follow the […]
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: 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. […]
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: 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? […]
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 | 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: 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 […]