Should companies talk about digital transformation or process transformation? To EBG process highlight the dependencies functions and decisions have across an organization. Cost control and cash flow performance mean collaborating across functions. Sustainability improvements and reporting mean knowing your business internally and increasingly externally. On April 25th you who join CFO Outlook 2024 will have […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Learn from the finance digitization and automation journey at Billerud
Improving efficiency, considering end to end processes and making sure doing so in an adjustable way. This is what Billerud have set out to achieve and you can learn more about it! Three years ago Billerud started a journey towards automation and harmonization of systems, processes and working methods within finance. The new strategy meant […]
EBG | Webinar: Sustainability due diligence and governance for procurement in 2023
Procurement have been aware of the impact supply chain and external spend have on corporate sustainability agendas for a long time. A lot has happened on the legislation side as well as on corporate awareness. During this upcoming webinar EBG bring together brains and experiences across multiple aspects of corporate sustainability realization. Because even though […]
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CFO Outlook 2024 | Final Program available
Should companies talk about digital transformation or process transformation? To EBG process highlight the dependencies functions and decisions have across an organization. Cost control and cash flow performance mean collaborating across functions. Sustainability improvements and reporting mean knowing your business internally and increasingly externally. On April 25th you who join CFO Outlook 2024 will have […]
Stora Enso join CFO Outlook 2024
All want control, all want insights, all want automation and digitalization. So why are we not seeing more progress? A warm welcome to Hannele Palje-Rossi, SVP, Head of Global Business Services at Stora Enso joining CFO Outlook 2024. Hannele will share her view on how to Rewire to a ‘Good enough’ AI culture! Most agree […]
Acumant join CFO Outlook 2024
EBG | Network welcome Acumant with its ESG platform ecoPRISM to CFO Outlook 2024. Acumant join as an Expert Organization. You who join the summit will learn more about their view on creating a holistic view over your ESG data (Environmental, social and governance). As we will learn during CFO Outlook 2024, sustainability is not […]
Billerud join CFO Outlook 2024
How do you execute what may seem like a straight forward strategy? Often strategies end up relying on stakeholders across functions collaborating. On data being accurate. On businesses being consistent. Many of which all of you know is often quite hard to predict. EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Jesper Persson, Business Developer […]
EBG | Insights
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: 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 | Insight: Changing transaction platform with 170+ countries
Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
EBG | Insight: ROI, obstacles and future proof P2P
The other day EBG | Network “met” with Eric Wilson, Vice President Purchase to pay with Basware in the US. We spoke about his experiences in creating purchase to pay business cases, ensuring ROI, how to ensure success and how to future proof purchase to pay development.
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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 do you manage Business Control in transformation?
How are you handling the gray zones in between functions? Are you able to free up time in order to capture opportunities in the gray zones between functions? Doing just that is the focus for Volvo Group and Volvo Group Trucks Operations and below You can learn how. Marcus Sjöholm, VP SML Business Control at […]
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 […]
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: 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: PwC on Supply Chain Optimization: with or without Procurement
Just as we though the VUCA world might ease up..we realize it is not just yet. The question arise – will it ever? VUCA short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity summon up what many businesses face on a daily basis. Working with supply chain or procurement – what does this mean to you? You […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]
Follow up after Source 2 Pay Summit 2019
By ebgnetwork
A huge thank you to all who came to the 9th version of Source 2 Pay Summit in Stockholm! It is a pleasure seeing all the connections taking place, all the conversations and all the experience exchange. Informal and to the point. All share more or less the same challenges! Post Summit Report Take a […]
EBG Play: Source to Pay panel discussion on how to develop world class compliance
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
CFO Talk with Nuno Guerreiro at Sonae about touchless processes and the need for stakeholder management
By ebgnetwork
As downstream Shared Service Centers find themselves managing numerous errors, realizing the need for upstream process development, the question is – how do you enforce that? If touchless processes are the goal – in what ways do you influence metrics and behavior in sourcing and procurement departments? Nuno Guerreiro, Head of Accounts Payable at Sonae […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
Reflections from Source 2 Pay Summit 2016
By ebgnetwork
When you work for a really long time with an event it becomes a part of you and when it is over you are somewhat left in a void. That void is however quickly filled with impressions and ideas for the future, just like it is for us at EBG after Source 2 Pay Summit. […]
EBG | Insight: CPO Talk with Dr. Marcell Vollmer, CPO at SAP about aligning from source to pay
By ebgnetwork
It is fair to say that the possibilities in keeping control and gather the facts in any type supply chain has increased dramatically past ten years. At the same time, more of businesses have been externalized and finance and procurement as we once new them does not look the same. What we buy and how, […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization
By ebgnetwork
End September great minds met online to discuss digitalization in general and Artificial Intelligence impact on procurement specifically. Why so? On April 10th 2018, 25 European countries signed a Declaration of cooperation on Artificial Intelligence. It builds further on the achievements and investments of the European research and business community in AI. Given this announcement, […]
Sourcing Outlook recap and Post Summit Report
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 […]
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
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 […]
CPO Outlook 2023 | How are you preparing for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive?
By ebgnetwork
On 1 June 2023, the European Parliament has agreed on its position on the Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (the CSDDD). The CSDDD requires in-scope companies to conduct due diligence on, and take responsibility for, human rights abuses and environmental harm throughout their global value chains. Once the CSDDD has been formally adopted – […]
EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
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 […]
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]