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Visma join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021

March 2, 2021 By ebgnetwork

A warm welcome to Visma joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 as an Expert Organization. On May 6th you can join a select group of people sharing the same challenges and see the same opportunities. Visma Proceedo is a cloud-based solution that supports all aspects of your organization’s procurement: Manage supplier contracts, place and deploy […]

EBG | Webinars

EBG | Webinar: How AI is changing Procurement in 2021 and beyond

By ebgnetwork

A warm welcome to the first EBG | Webinar of 2021! With lessons learned from the past year and reflections on what need to be achieved ahead, EBG invite you to join us together with Medius. Date: February 11th 2021Time: 2:00-2:45 PM CETPlace: Your computer/tablet/phoneLanguage: EnglishCost: Free of charge but requires registrationOrganizer: EBG | Network […]

EBG | Webinar: The Journey to Smarter Business Spend Management

By ebgnetwork

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 | Insights

EBG | Insight: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay

On November 17th 2015, at Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, procurement and finance professionals will meet up at Ariba Commerce Summit 2015. During this summit you can network with practitioners and experts and exchange experiences, learn about future procurement developments and today’s technology driven market. Listen to the below interview with Charlotte Wedell-Neergaard, Nordic […]

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: Experiences in procurement outsourcing

As businesses evolve the view on procurement changes from a low cost, cost reduction and transaction effective angle to an at least more diversified view depending on type business, maturity level and know-how. The Hackett Group state that centralizing and possibly outsourcing of procurement has a high growth rate and looking at the challenges and […]

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 […]

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EBG | Summit News

Visma join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021

A warm welcome to Visma joining Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 as an Expert Organization. On May 6th you can join a select group of people sharing the same challenges and see the same opportunities. Visma Proceedo is a cloud-based solution that supports all aspects of your organization’s procurement: Manage supplier contracts, place and deploy […]

Telenor join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021

How do you take your sourcing and procurement practices to the next level? How do you ensure that those strategies you create come true? EBG | Network are really glad to welcome Telenor to Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 on May 6th! On May 6th you can join Bjørg Nikoma, Senior P2P Specialist at Telenor […]

Equinix join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021

So, you are faced with a development scope covering numerous countries, functions, processes and technology history? Most realize the benefits of said development and you feel real energetic! You have limited time and budget but for sure all involved will dedicate what is needed? The benefits are obvious for all as are the main steps […]

SSAB and Ericsson join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021

Will all things be digital or digitized? The past year one may wonder. If you work in a large organization your digitization and digitalization have probably skyrocketed. EBG | Network are thrilled to start welcoming the great peers and experts joining the 11th annual Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 on May 6th! On May 6th […]

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EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions

EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management Best Practices: Nokia

A big thank you to Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management at Nokia for generously sharing how they are stepping up their supply chain risk management ways of working. In a session enabled by riskmethods you can learn both from Tua, riskmethods and from those attending live. Supply Chain Risk Management in […]

EBG | Play: Building Partner Enabled Digital Offerings through AI

Facts and fiction. It is evident – through numerous research reports – that procurement and supply chain are not using for instance Artificial Intelligence in any major way. Yet. McKinsey state that a mere 2% of respondents have a supply chain oriented digital strategy. Deloitte state “The level and speed of digitalisation across procurement functions […]

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: Aker Solutions: Reputational and financial risk control

It is always a treat hearing real life experiences from different industries and with different angles based on the same premises. That today a lot of doing business has to do with managing and developing external supplier relationships. EBG | Network is very happy that Hilde Kjensjord, Senior Manager, SCM Governance, Risk & Compliance at […]

EBG | Play: The Journey to Smarter Business Spend Management

Organizations have had to “react and respond” by immediately pivoting and adapting to fast-changing government advice and regulations, as well as navigating to a “new normal” of greater supplier risk management and more agile investment decision-making. One of the most remarkable aspects of the Covid crisis is seeing how communities have come together to face […]

EBG | Play: Public sector contract compliance and spend control

In a popular webinar Daniel Nesz at Södersjukhuset AB shared how they have used a Qlik solution to increase visibility and control over both contract compliance and spend pattern overview. Public sector have a never ending demand to use money wisely as well as having extensive legal aspects of how, with who and in what […]

Focus Area: Source to Pay

EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective

November 21, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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 | Play: Historic spend and future needs

October 24, 2016 By ebgnetwork

EBG | Network want to send a big thank you to Irene Tibbling at Stora Enso who generously shared her sourcing and procurement visualization experiences. Also a big thank you to Qlik (in Swedish go to Qlik) who enabled the webinar to take place. Webinar recording Here you can view the recorded webinar session: Poll […]

EBG | Insight: Arjan van Weele about the need for change

December 14, 2015 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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EBG | Insight: Scania on success factors enrolling purchase-to-pay

April 14, 2014 By ebgnetwork

What does it take to make sure you have control over your purchase-to-pay processes? How do you encourage stakeholders? We asked Rutger af Sandeberg from Scania and Mia Lenman from Basware about their input in the matter. Rutger and Mia were hosts of two Theme Discussions at Source to Pay Summit 2014, in the interview […]

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Focus Area: Procurement

Source 2 Pay Summit 2016 | Collaboration | Trust | Sustainability

January 21, 2016 By ebgnetwork

It is that time of the year – we are getting closer to the annual Source 2 Pay Summit during which EBG | Network gather managers from across businesses, across countries and across industries. Our philosophy is simple yet effective – allow experiences managers to share ideas and exchange knowledge with peers and expert organizations […]

Follow up from a spend analytics webinar

June 3, 2016 By ebgnetwork

A few hours back EBG | Network finished a fully booked spend analytics webinar featuring Sahar Shirzad, BI Analyst, Procurement Development at Vattenfall. She shared how Vattenfall have developed their spend analytics using Qlik to help them on the tool side. The webinar was fully booked which is no surprise for EBG. Finding ways to […]

EBG | Play: Public sector contract compliance and spend control

June 25, 2015 By ebgnetwork

In a popular webinar Daniel Nesz at Södersjukhuset AB shared how they have used a Qlik solution to increase visibility and control over both contract compliance and spend pattern overview. Public sector have a never ending demand to use money wisely as well as having extensive legal aspects of how, with who and in what […]

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Focus Area: Sourcing

EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?

May 25, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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 | Insight: What is your contract management status?

June 17, 2019 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

Sourcing Outlook recap and Post Summit Report

November 14, 2017 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability

EBG | Insight: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?

February 19, 2016 By ebgnetwork

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: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement

June 23, 2020 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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Beyond trends from industry experts | IV

February 26, 2019 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

EBG | Insight: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating

December 7, 2018 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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          Telenor join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021

          How do you take your sourcing and procurement practices to the next level? How do you ensure that those strategies you create come true? EBG | Network are really glad to welcome Telenor to Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 on May 6th! On May 6th you can join Bjørg Nikoma, Senior P2P Specialist at Telenor […]

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          EBG | Play: How AI is changing Procurement in 2021 and beyond

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          Will all things be digital or digitized? The past year one may wonder. If you work in a large organization your digitization and digitalization have probably skyrocketed. EBG | Network are thrilled to start welcoming the great peers and experts joining the 11th annual Source 2 Pay Summit 2021 on May 6th! On May 6th […]

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