The art of change. The art of managing change. The art of managing strategic change. The art of change in a strategic way. Ask anyone and change management is on the top list of what is perceived the biggest challenge in any large organization. Why is it so hard to realize strategies? Strategies followed by […]
EBG Webinar May 22nd: Spend analysis revealing the hidden gold in accounts payable data
Date: Friday May 22nd Time: 11:00-11:45 AM CET (12:00-12:45 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >>Click here to register The amount of spend related data produced in a mid to large size organization is daunting. The amount of reports created are […]
EBG | Network launch Nordic Online Benchmark Conferences
Nordic Online Benchmark Conferences are launched starting September 2015 Those having followed the evolvement of EBG have seen how stringent we have been gathering and sharing cross functional and cross industry intelligence within finance and procurement. As time has passed hundreds of senior managers have attended our conferences in Sweden and Norway, hundreds have attended […]
EBG | Insight: Spend control through rapid access to information
In a recent post EBG wrote about studies indicating that an average contract compliance lies at about 30%. How can that be? Why is it so much of company spend is neither under management, control nor influence? Systems not being “filled” with enough data, catalogs and other purchasing options is one key element but according […]
EBG | Insight: Working capital the essence of procure to pay efficiency
Ravindra Rao is Finance Director & Global PMO Leader at Honeywell. His knowledge in cross functional, cross organizational, cross industry process development comes from years of experiences. For ten years he has been working at Honeywell with finance transformation. Their strategy has been to pay vendors on time and work with both internal and external […]
EBG | Insight: EFFSO about the development in category management BPO in the Nordics
Outsourcing has been a part of strategies in a number of business areas due to different reasons. One main reason being to focus on core business processes and let other professionals take care of manual and transactional processes and flows. One, perhaps even bigger reason, has been to reduce cost – cutting wage arbitrage has […]
EBG | Insight: CPO Talk with Dr. Marcell Vollmer, CPO at SAP about aligning from source to pay
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, […]
EBG | Insight: The promise in “e” is the promise of any future strategy
First published in May 2013 – this interview is still valid and we’d like to push it again. Quite often discussions about e-procurement and e-invoicing tends to focus around – the e – rather than the process itself. E as in electronic as in systems and IT. It is however clear that “e” is more […]
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 […]
Time to gather for Source to Pay Summit 2015!
Every year for the past four years, EBG | Network have created a cross functional, cross organizational conference day based upon the fact that in order to take control over both the physical and financial supply chain – an end to end approach is needed. This is not rocket science but take a look at […]