EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
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: 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: From transactions to financial value ad
EBG first met with Pagero back in 2008. The era of e-invoicing for the masses was there – accounts payable managers were looking for ways to make those suppliers send e-invoices, the Norwegian government was looking for an approach to enforce e-invoicing to government authorities and the Danish government had already enforced business to government […]
EBG | Insight: 4 companies, 3 questions about financial supply chain developments
EBG recently met up with Esa Tihilä, Basware, Jonas Edlund, Pagero, Markus Ament, Taulia and Kai Finck, Ariba an SAP Company to ask about the market developments within the financial supply chain market. What is that then, really? Well, it may of course be anything from ERP systems, to workflow systems, to e-invoicing to supply […]
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: 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: 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: What is procurement transformation?
Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]
EBG | Insight: How do you measure procurement?
When talking about how to develop procurement further the issue of how to measure sucess is one of the most valid topics. Savings of course being and having been the number one metric it is still a challenge to truly measure both people and processes. At EBG’s annual Source 2 Pay Summit a number of […]