Two maps, one Nordic room | CPO Outlook 2026 14–15 October 2026 Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm The 23rd EBG | Network summit The view from outside in Foreign direct investment into Europe rose 38 per cent in 2025. Export sentiment towards Asia dropped 15 points in a single quarter of 2026. And Denmark, Finland, Norway […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: What Does Your AP System Know About Your Suppliers That You Don’t?
What if the most valuable supplier intelligence in your organization is already being collected – just trapped in the wrong department? EBG | Network and Medius invite you to explore how AI is creating a new bridge between finance operations and procurement strategy. Date: March 3rd, 2026 Time: 10:00-10:45 AM CET (we will extend the […]
EBG | Webinar: Engaging Suppliers for Scope 3 Decarbonization: How Kongsberg Maritime is Turning Data into Action
What does it take to move from Scope 3 targets on paper to actual supplier engagement – and from spend-based estimates toward primary emissions data? EBG | Network, together with Kongsberg Maritime and IntegrityNext invite you to a practical and honest live webinar. Date: February 12th, 2026 Time: 10:00-10:45 AM CET (we will extend the […]
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Macro impact on Nordic procurement strategies
Two maps, one Nordic room | CPO Outlook 2026 14–15 October 2026 Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm The 23rd EBG | Network summit The view from outside in Foreign direct investment into Europe rose 38 per cent in 2025. Export sentiment towards Asia dropped 15 points in a single quarter of 2026. And Denmark, Finland, Norway […]
How much foundation before you move?
How much foundation before you move? | CPO Outlook 2026 14–15 October 2026 Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm The 23rd EBG | Network summit Digitalisation · Operating model Everyone says data is the foundation. Everyone says AI is the future. Two surveys published for 2026 measure what happens in between — and the gap between individual […]
Procurement won the argument
Procurement won the argument | CPO Outlook 2026 14–15 October 2026 Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm The 23rd EBG | Network summit Operating model & category design Kraljic told purchasing to become strategic in 1983, and it worked — procurement owns more of the business than it ever has. The question nobody planned for is which […]
Achilles join CPO Outlook 2026 — verified once, shared widely
CPO Outlook 2026 · 14–15 October · Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm EBG welcomes Achilles to CPO Outlook 2026 as an Expert Organisation, 14–15 October at Hotel Birger Jarl in Stockholm. They have spent more than 35 years on a single idea: verify a supplier once, then let many buyers rely on the same verification. The […]
Who decides what it means?
Peer Lab · CPO Outlook 2026 A regulation tells you what to comply with. It never tells you what it means for your business — or who inside your organisation gets to decide that. How far into your supply base it reaches, what counts as evidence, where the line sits. That gap is where procurement […]
Hiring for the procurement we might be working in — an open reflection
What are we hiring for when the procurement function itself might look different in two years? Yesterday’s article looked at what 60+ live Nordic procurement job ads describe this summer. Some ads name explicit AI capability. Some name specific procurement platforms. Many describe procurement much as it looks today. All of them are being written […]
Hiring for procurement in 2026 — what 60+ Nordic job ads describe
What are Nordic procurement functions hiring for right now? During the summer of 2026, EBG has read more than 60 live Nordic procurement job ads to see what the picture looks like. Not manually. AI made it possible to read this many, this fast — which is part of the point. The analyst and vendor […]
Candex join CPO Outlook 2026 – reducing spend noise
CPO Outlook 2026 · 14–15 October · Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm EBG welcomes Candex to CPO Outlook 2026 as an Expert Organisation, 14–15 October at Hotel Birger Jarl in Stockholm. Their argument is that the cost of a small purchase sits largely outside the purchase itself: in the onboarding, the tax checks and the approvals […]
EBG | Xperience 2026 in STOCKHOLM & MALMÖ
More Responsibility. Less Control. Faster Change.
EBG | Xperience Stockholm 2026 brought thirty procurement leaders together at Scandic Grand Central for a focus day on AI, risk, leadership and transformation. The day’s red thread, set out at the opening: more responsibility, less control, faster change. Three expert organizations — Coupa, Accenture and IntegrityNext — opened the day with views from the […]
EBG | Xperience Stockholm 2026: A Leadership Perspective For Procurement
Every procurement leader knows what the challenges are. What’s rare is hearing how leaders are actually navigating them. Not polished case studies – but honest perspectives from people making decisions under the same pressure you are. That’s what EBG | Xperience Stockholm delivers on April 23rd. Brief reflections and discussions. 30 procurement leaders. One room […]
EBG | Xperience GBG: Turning Risk Complexity into Actionable Procurement Strategies
On May 6th, procurement professionals gathered in Gothenburg for a fully booked EBG | Xperience day focused on ‘Knowing Your Supply and Suppliers: Managing Risks, Resilience and Sustainability’. A day centered on navigating the evolving risk, resilience, and sustainability landscape. Ahead of the event, attendees were asked what they most wanted to explore—and the answers […]
Procurement Risk & Resilience in Focus at EBG | Xperience GBG 2025
On May 6th, 30 senior procurement practitioners will gather in Gothenburg for a full-day, hands-on workshop. The event is fully booked — and for good reason. If you want to join we can just about make room for a couple of more but need to know now. Procurement teams today are navigating a perfect storm […]
EBG | Xperience CPH: From Potential to Practical AI
On May 8th, 2025, procurement leaders gathered in central Copenhagen for a fully booked EBG | Xperience day. The theme? AI-Powered Procurement Transformation. The aim? To explore how AI and GenAI might help turn complexity into clarity—while acknowledging that most companies are still at the very beginning of their journey. From the very start of […]
Procurement in 2025: Turning AI Hype into Real Impact
🔍 EBG | Xperience CPH | AI-Powered Procurement Transformation Why This Workshop Matters — Now More Than Ever Across the Nordics and beyond, procurement leaders agree: AI and GenAI will reshape how organizations operate. But most also acknowledge they are far from ready. According to BCG’s 2024 report “GenAI Complacency: The Costly Inaction in the […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: What Does Your AP System Know About Your Suppliers That You Don’t?
Webinar recap: Fredrik Rydqvist from Medius on why the invoice might be the most underused data source in procurement The starting point: one step no supplier ever skips Every step in the source-to-pay process can be bypassed. Requisitions get skipped. POs forgotten. Contracts ignored. Receipts go missing. But there’s one step no supplier ever skips: […]
EBG | Play Scope 3 Supplier Engagement at Kongsberg Maritime
EBG | Play Webinar Recap | February 2026 “Supplier engagement does not start with emissions.” That statement from Anna Grabska, Sustainability & Process Lead at Kongsberg Maritime, captured the central insight from last month’s webinar with IntegrityNext. In a session that drew strong engagement – including a 20-minute Q&A that still couldn’t cover all the […]
EBG | Play: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
EBG | Play: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
EBG | Play: Unlocking Tail Spend: Risks, Compliance & Strategy
A Recap from the EBG | Webinar with Medius Tail spend has long been viewed as “too fragmented,” “too low in value,” or “just too hard” to manage. But as the webinar host Russell Jaques pointed out, that narrative is changing—and fast. “If we can’t see it, we can’t control it—and that’s where the risk […]
EBG | Play: AI in Procurement: Unlocking Efficiency, Trust and Strategic Value
What Did We Learn from the AI-Powered Procurement Webinar? Procurement and finance leaders today face a perfect storm of challenges: tightening margins, increasing compliance demands and the ongoing struggle to do more with fewer resources. While AI and Generative AI offer unprecedented opportunities, many organizations are still in the early stages of adoption, questioning where […]
EBG | Play: Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability
EBG | Network recently hosted a webinar titled “Supply Chain Sustainability: How to overcome Critical Challenges in Data, Compliance and Real-Time Risk Management“, enabled by IntegrityNext. Industry leaders shared insights into the complexities of sourcing, procurement and supply chain in a world increasingly shaped by sustainability goals and regulatory demands. Hosted by Anna Bjärkerud, the […]