Where does insight management sit within your organization? How do you ensure the right people get the right information at the right time in order to make informed decisions? EBG | Network welcome Bureau van Dijk – A Moody’s Analytics company, to Sourcing Outlook 2021. They ensure better-informed decisions can be made based on facts. […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: How will you manage cash, savings and supplier risk ahead?
As the economy begins to bounce back from the global health crisis, companies are working hard to rebuild and re-assess how to drive growth. Procurement teams must adjust to a world focused on cost-centric measures as companies rethink the role of procurement to focus on cash management, savings and supply risk mitigation to enable growth […]
EBG | Webinar: Actionable data insights in a complex organization during digital transformation
Beijer Byggmaterial is apart from growing organically – growing through mergers and acquisitions. New systems, data and stakeholders to be aligned with a thought through structure as soon as is possible. ”It will take years” consultants said but Jimmy Swärdhammar, Solution Analyst | Pricing Specialist at Beijer Byggmaterial and his organization have found ways to achieve data […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, Governance & Risk
In our second interview with Francesco Colavita, Vice President Solution Architecture & Value Engineering – Europe at JAGGAER we go through Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, Governance & Risk. It will be impossible to think of corporate 2020 without thinking about all discussions taking risk management into account . For obvious reasons. Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, […]
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: 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: 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 […]
EBG | Summit News
Bureau van Dijk join Sourcing Outlook 2021
Where does insight management sit within your organization? How do you ensure the right people get the right information at the right time in order to make informed decisions? EBG | Network welcome Bureau van Dijk – A Moody’s Analytics company, to Sourcing Outlook 2021. They ensure better-informed decisions can be made based on facts. […]
QAD Allocation join Sourcing Outlook 2021
EBG | Network look ahead toward an exciting autumn and winter continuing to bring people together. On November 25th sourcing, procurement and supply chain professionals will meet online. Then the 5th Sourcing Outlook will take place. Meet meaning truly meeting based on what each individual find challenging, what each company want to develop ahead. EBG […]
Sourcing Outlook | Do You have experiences to share?
Take a look at the below image – highlighting some of the in total 36 online roundtable discussions taking place during Source 2 Pay Summit 2021. Even though we still cannot meet in person – it is possible to meet in smaller groups and have quality experience exchange. Sourcing Outlook November 25th On November 25th, […]
How do you manage supplier experience?
And does it matter? What are the different layers you could consider the relationships you create with your suppliers are not wasted due to poor supplier experiences. That valuable data is not missing or unable to interpret and make use of. On May 6th you who join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 can join one […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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: 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: 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: 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: Rewriting the Supply Chain Strategy Manual
How to Reconnect Links and Restore Continuity To say supply chain and procurement have been and still may be in a turmoil is not an understatement. A unique situation – black swan or not – where more or less the entire world experience the same challenges. Borders have been closed, processes have been cut and […]
EBG | Play: How AI is changing Procurement in 2021 and beyond
A subtitle could also be “What do you know about your cash position from an end to end perspective?”. This session enabled by Medius – which you can view or re-view below – have a two part story. One, and possibly the most important, is the – still – dilemma companies face when procurement and […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
Organizations are striving to increase an understanding of company spend, ways to improve innovation speed and company capital and cash. Procurement have for a long time struggled to highlight the possible impact the know how they possess can have on all of the above. Challenges visualizing what is and what if can be part of […]
EBG | Insight: Basware reflections and advice
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 […]
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 […]
EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
No Po No Pay Strategy or Not?
Having just finished the annual Source to Pay Summit 2014 in Stockholm – one thing was evident. Most agree that the ultimate way to get spend under management results is to ensure a NO PO (Purchase Order) NO PAY strategy. But only about 5% in the audience had such a strategy. And the question is […]
Can technology override the need for skills?
The short answer is of course – no. Technology cannot override the need for skills in any type organization. Something that is evident every time EBG gather peers. Yet, the opposite is also true – skills alone cannot cover the capabilities technology can offer. After last years Sourcing Outlook – the second annual – EBG […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Insight: What is your contract management status?
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
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? […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
EBG | Play: Beckers Groups sustainability change management journey
How to move from silo CSR and sustainability code of conduct website statements to active performance measures and supplier collaboration activities is increasingly important for most large organizations. EBG | Network was happy to be able to share – in much detail – the work made by Beckers Group and not the least Thomas Lüder, […]
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: 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 | Insight: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating
How do you scale solutions you already have or consider growing that platform of capabilities you wish you had? EBG | Network tuned in with Sam Jenks and Ashley Stephenson at Kodiak Rating to hear their view on how to enable procurement to utilize the possibilities out there. It is not shortage of technology that […]