EBG | Network are happy to welcome Basware – a long time EBG expert organization – to Source 2 Pay Summit 2021. For over ten years EBG have gathered sourcing, procurement and finance to talk about procurement as an end to end process. Along the way companies have realized that sub optimizing processes will not […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: The Journey to Smarter Business Spend Management
How to you move from as-is to to-be? Especially in the midst of a world wide crisis that is not near to be over? Being resilient together for one. Welcome to join a webinar where Ulrik Lolk, Head of Indirect Procurement at Salling Group and John Callan, Sr. Director, Product & Segment Marketing at Coupa […]
EBG | Webinar: The Elephant in the Room: S2P Ecosystem or S2P Single Suite?
Things are shifting in the Source-to-Pay (S2P) world and it’s time to address the elephant in the room. S2P ecosystem or S2P single suite for automating your procurement and finance functions? Do you go to one vendor and get access to a multitude of tools and services under one umbrella – or do you seek out different […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Augmented Analytics: Leading procurement with new data insights
How far will digitization and automation take us? What will the interaction between humans and systems look like ahead? There are discussions about predictive analytics, augmented analytics, guided buying and self service – all dependent on really good and solid data. In this interview we learn about the reflections made by Francesco Colavita, Vice President […]
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 | Summit News
Basware join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021
EBG | Network are happy to welcome Basware – a long time EBG expert organization – to Source 2 Pay Summit 2021. For over ten years EBG have gathered sourcing, procurement and finance to talk about procurement as an end to end process. Along the way companies have realized that sub optimizing processes will not […]
Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 | May 6th | Online
Last year was a challenge for most of us. Positive or negative it was a challenge! For EBG it meant staying strong in our conviction to create a true networking summit also online. Could it be done? Yes it could and Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 was the proof. Since EBG have enabled small group […]
Source 2 Pay Summit 2020 | Post Summit Report
It has now been over a month since EBG | Network enabled 35 Theme Discussions (round table discussions) and six keynotes – online during one day. It was not a straight road from March when the decision was made to postpone the summit (originally scheduled for March 19th for the 10th annual summit). A lot […]
C2FO join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
On October 7th you can meet with people – face to face – you might not otherwise meet for a very long time. If ever. On October 7th, EBG | Network host the 10th annual Source 2 Pay Summit – online. The pandemic is on one hand forcing us to find new ways of interacting […]
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 | Supply Chain Transparency..
..the Next P2P Evolution – a webinar hosted by EBG | Network enabled by Tradeshift recently and below you can view it all over again. Mike Jud and Jonathan Laverentz shared their different “up” and “down” stream experiences from years of working with different type organizations and technology. The first reflection being that seeing supply […]
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: Online S&P and F&A Benchmark Sessions
Thank you for being interested in all or most of each days Online Sourcing & Procurement and Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark Sessions held in October 2015. EBG are very happy with the result, happy with the experiences given and happy with the interaction so many showed! Below are the recordings from all sessions, in […]
EBG Play | Online Spend Management Benchmark Recordings
Thank you for being a part of or wanting to take part of the EBG Online Spend Management Benchmark aired November 26th. Together with ProSourcia, EBG can provide you with a study summary and new fresh data from the live session. Data that to a large extent comply with the study data. Joining EBG Online […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG Play: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?
There is a lot of talk about collaborative and connective relationships. It is fare to say that the possibilities today could enable a completely seamless and transparent approach to doing business. So are we? Take a look at and listen to two snapshots from this years Source to Pay Summit where Kate Vitasek gave a […]
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: Outsoucing your sourcing?
It is not a new topic but it has been more and more discussed – even in procurement – what should you do yourself and what should you outsource? If procurement is only seen as an administrative service (as accounts payable, wrongly, for so many years has been seen as) then the math is probably […]
EBG Play: Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark
Following the first day of sourcing and procurement benchmark, the second day of EBGs first Online Benchmark sessions were about the “other” side of the puzzle – finance and accounting. Finding ways to reduce administrative costs, improve efficiency and effectiveness have been a priority for a long time. Centralizing, captive or not, possibly outsourcing, and […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 […]
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 […]
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 | 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. […]
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: 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 | 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: Leveraging Automation to Help Manage Supplier Risk
Disruptions are shaping the future and supplier risk and performance management now needs to become supplier value management. Recognizing the benefits of collaboration and integration across the entire supplier lifecycle. Statements made during the now On demand available webinar EBG hosted together with KPMG and Coupa. During a fact and insight filled hour Björn Borgman, […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
Before Easter, EBG | Network hosted a webinar enabled by riskmethods featuring Husqvarna Group focusing on how they have been and are developing ways to manage risk in their supply chain. Benjamin A Sutherland at Husqvarna group and Heiko Schwarz at riskmethods share their insights. Below is the recorded webinar session for you to view. […]