A warm welcome to LEO Pharma joining hands with Allocation at Sourcing Outlook 2020. Joining the summit will enable you to join their round table discussions – Theme Discussions. In 2020 you will be able to choose to join on site or online, registration take place as usual and you may decide later. Martin Starcke, […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Commercial Risks: Collaborative Solutions
COVID-19 has posed unexpected challenges to traditional business operating models. However, it has also introduced a rare moment to collaborate and future-proof our businesses. From this webinar you will walk away with a checklist to help create a more visible supply chain, learn what risks your current contract processes expose you to, and develop supply […]
EBG | Webinar: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
Leveraging supply chain data to identify, avoid and mitigate risk A few months back, lowering C02 emissions, improving CSR strategies and sustainable business development had a central role in most companies’ supply chain and procurement organisations. Then came COVID-19. Welcome to join an interactive webinar: Date: June 11th 2020Time: 3:00-3:45 PM CESTPlace: Your computer/tablet/phoneLanguage: EnglishCost: […]
EBG | Insights
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 […]
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 | Summit News
LEO Pharma join Sourcing Outlook 2020
A warm welcome to LEO Pharma joining hands with Allocation at Sourcing Outlook 2020. Joining the summit will enable you to join their round table discussions – Theme Discussions. In 2020 you will be able to choose to join on site or online, registration take place as usual and you may decide later. Martin Starcke, […]
K-Group join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
How are yo choosing to organize your digitization efforts? In each business unit, by each function, otherwise or centrally led? EBG | Network are happy to welcome Juha-Pekka Pyhäjoki, Development Director, Kesko Business Services at K-Group to Source 2 Pay Summit 2020. The pandemic we are all apart of have so far proven to us […]
IKEA join Sourcing Outlook 2020
Are you able to find synergies across businesses? To leverage knowledge found in another organization? To ensure the decisions you take are scalable? EBG | Network say a warm welcome to Otto Tell, Business Navigation Manager, Category Area Food and Nichlas Jespersen, Multi Project Manager at Inter IKEA Group joining Sourcing Outlook 2020. On October […]
PostNord join Sourcing Outlook 2020
What does it take being a leader when your industry change fast? What does it take being a leader during a crisis? EBG | Network welcome Lena Hummelhielm Sjölin, CPO at PostNord to Sourcing Outlook 2020! On October 8th she will share her reflections and invite you to a discussion following that discussion. Covid or […]
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: How do you digitize your sourcing strategy and operations?
Digitizing all parts of doing business is on everybody’s lips. Yet it proves to be challenging for most. Why? During a webinar focusing on digitizing sourcing strategies and operations some clues were given. How automated and digitized is your sourcing process? 5% of the attendees use a full eSourcing cycle end to end..but 43% manage […]
EBG | Play: Making sense of procurement and AP data
A great number of people signed up to join a webinar named “”How do you make sense of procurement and accounts payable data?” where Jereme Pineda at Basware shared his insights into the matter. From a finance perspective cost is a solid way of analyzing purchase to pay outcome, but how about looking at it […]
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: Munters Europe share Supply Chain Risk Management experiences
It was a pleasure sharing supply chain risk management know how from Stefan Måhl, VP Global Sourcing at Munters Europe and that of Rolf Zimmer, Managing Director at riskmethods. It was also a pleasure highlighting the experiences shared by you who joined in live – giving a live webinar an extra value. You may also […]
EBG | Play: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
“Artificial intelligence is not purely “artificial.” The ideal approach amplifies human intuition with machine intelligence to create a powerful multiplier effect. That’s augmented intelligence.” A statement made by Qlik with the headline “From BI to “AI””. EBG | Network hosted a webinar together with Paul Winsor at Qlik. The topic what augmented intelligence mean within the […]
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 | 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 […]
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 […]
Sourcing, procurement and finance development
In a few months professionals meet in Stockholm an discuss vital business development aspects from a sourcing, procurement and finance perspective. How much of your company revenue is invested externally? Probably a major part, making Source to Pay topics a vital part of you development. Below the program as of January 10th, more topics will […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Network presents snapshots from Source to Pay Summit 2014
Did we meet in March? If not, take a look at the below snapshots from the annual Source to Pay Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. For two days we met and discussed opportunities and challenges in taking further control over the spend cycle from source to pay. All cannot join a conference – but all can […]
What to do yourself and what to outsource
This is an old topic with fresh angles. The different scopes of what to do inhouse and what not to are growing in depth and width. Here is a discussion in the topic from LinkedIn, starting with the question Does outsourcing actually work? Research suggests that 50% of projects fail completely or fail to meet […]
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 […]
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 | 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: 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 […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | IV
An online session is a perfect way to gather know how from across the world. To enable knowledgeable professionals to share extensive experiences without leaving the office. On March 12th Jon Hansen, Procurement Insights, gather industry experts such as David Loseby, CPO, Advisor, Author and Global Board of Trustees Member of CIPS to discuss procurement […]
Scope and type supply chain risk monitored
For the third year in a row, EBG | Network are happy to invite you to join a supply chain risk management overview webinar. Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, Global Operations at Nokia share her insights during a riskmethods enabled webinar. There is still time to register go here to learn […]