EBG | Network welcome EcoVadis joining CPO Outlook 2023 as an Expert Organization! On October 18th & 19th you who join the summit in Stockholm can take part in their round table discussions. Learn from their extensive experiences and the experiences your peers share. The questions they ask will inspire you. The questions you ask […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Transforming procurement at Danish Crown
“Living and loving the journey”: transforming procurement at Danish Crown. Danish Crown is a unique organization, owned by 9,000 Danish farmers supplying pigs and cattle. It has 25,000 employees and 60-plus factories. Procurement transformation represents a dramatic shift in an enterprise’s structure, operations and bottom line, resulting from the establishment of a new collective mindset, […]
EBG | Webinar: Accelerate Time to Value with Touchless Invoice Processing
It is often said, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Adopting and operating new solutions and services can be time-consuming and requires new knowledge, processes, and ways of working. To achieve your business goals and reap the full benefits of your accounts payable (AP) solution, […]
EBG | Summit News
EcoVadis join CPO Outlook 2023
EBG | Network welcome EcoVadis joining CPO Outlook 2023 as an Expert Organization! On October 18th & 19th you who join the summit in Stockholm can take part in their round table discussions. Learn from their extensive experiences and the experiences your peers share. The questions they ask will inspire you. The questions you ask […]
Icertis join CPO Outlook 2023
EBG | Network are glad to welcome Icertis joining CPO Outlook 2023 as Platinum sponsors. This mean you get to know as much as is possible about how to connect the agreements you make and contracts you sign to actual business value. On October 18th & 19th you who join the summit in Stockholm will have […]
Prewave join CPO Outlook 2023
A warm welcome to Prewave joining CPO Outlook 2023 as Platinum sponsors! EBG | Network look forward to bringing people together on October 18th and 19th in Stockholm. Prewave ad supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain and sustainability managers to the summit. You who join us in October can choose to join their round table […]
Ivalua join CPO Outlook 2023
A new year, new beginnings but also cherishing what we know from the past. On October 18th & 19th we meet in Stockholm for CPO Outlook 2023. EBG | Network welcome Ivalua joining the summit as Platinum partner! CPO Outlook is the only summit combining 13 years of knowledge bringing end to end procurement insights […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Aligning from source to pay and lessons learned
Another great contribution to Source 2 Pay Summit 2015 was Rolph Hey, Regional Sourcing Manager Nordics at 3M. Rolph moderated Theme Discussions focusing on “Challenges and opportunities aligning from source to pay”. Of course a very broad subject which was drilled down into the way in which organizations set up new ERP-systems, choose to organize […]
EBG | Insight: The Lundbeck business service center and Ariba story
We live in a rapidly changing world and businesses need to stay agile. Finding ways to lower cost and ad value is on all businesses agenda. Actually doing so is another question. Lundbeck has undertaken several steps to ensure they enable the strategy set. “We want to invest significantly in growth opportunities, maximize the growth […]
EBG | Insight: 5 questions about how to manage supply chain risk
Yesterday EBG | Network hosted a webinar enabled by riskmethods and joined by Husqvarna Group. The topic was tips and insights when working with supply chain risk management (SCRM). EBG also have had the pleasure of interviewing Heiko Schwarz, founder and managing director at riskmethods. The idea with the interview – to ask 5 questions […]
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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 | 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: Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey
For what reasons are you digitizing and digitalizing – what is you digitization journey like? Reducing manual labor, minimizing paper, increasing information quality, speeding up decision making? During a recent webinar we got to learn from the Laerdal transformation journey. Joanne Emslie Bornø, Category manager at Laerdal Medical gave us a step by step run […]
EBG | Play: How is Nokia transforming its Procurement & Finance processes
How do you define, map, form and execute cross function and cross organization processes? How are you even able to define what your processes are like and how well the function? In what ways are you ensuring you reach your desired outcome based on the strategies you have set? Here you can view the On […]
EBG | Play: Finance and procurement – a fine romance or the best of enemies?
How can it be that it is still so hard to collaborate across functions? To find ways to ensure those great strategies are realized, savings met, automation enabled and cash optimization ensured. Welcome to not only re-view the recent session enabled by Basware but also send in questions and answer the poll questions! How does […]
EBG | Play: What is Source-to-pay digital transformation?
Choosing to rephrase the webinar title based on what came out during the recent session in which Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Officer at Tradeshift presented his experiences and visions. It is still so – even though much less than before – that source to pay to some is viewed as transactional efficiency and […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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 […]
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 […]
EBG Play: Source to Pay panel discussion on how to develop world class compliance
There are numerous finance, procurement, CRM and other systems in the market. A lot has happened in the past, systems are merged as are companies. Finding the balance between knowing exactly what your organization is spending, how and why, is a challenge in itself. At Source to Pay Summit 2014 EBG brought together wise men […]
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
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 […]
Time to gather for Source to Pay Summit 2015!
Every year for the past four years, EBG | Network have created a cross functional, cross organizational conference day based upon the fact that in order to take control over both the physical and financial supply chain – an end to end approach is needed. This is not rocket science but take a look at […]
How to master supplier communication and data
If you could line up all the supplier data in your critical and non critical systems – how many miles would they reach? How much time is spent managing poor data? How many decisions may have been conducted based on non optimal information? The discussion about how to tackle the often thousands of suppliers and […]
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: 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 | 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: 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: 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 […]