It has been almost a year since the first Online Benchmark Sessions hosted by EBG saw the light. During two days and five sessions people from across the Nordics came together to listen to and share insights into how sourcing, procurement and finance processes and strategies are evolved on an organizational and process related level. […]
EBG Play: How to create value rather than extract it
If you take a look around and read most articles about how procurement is evolving or want to evolve, how finance want to develop and the way businesses need to find their way forward – there is one thing in common. Most focus on how to create value rather than extract it, extracting value is […]
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 […]
EBG Play: Sourcing & Procurement BPO Benchmark
Almost six months ago, EBG held the first Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Sourcing & Procurement BPO and Finance & Accounting BPO. Or – really – we focused on how large organizations tend to develop their operations and beyond. Within finance and accounting there has been a trend for a long time to centralize and […]
EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
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 […]
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: 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 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: 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: Key Elements in a global OneFinance transformation program
What importance does SLAs, service level agreements, have? Importance to those buying or selling the service, to those using the service? In a world that has become SLA driven, and not necessary in the best of ways, the key note given by Kate Vitasek and Henric Häggquist at Source to Pay Summit 2014 was very […]