What if the most valuable supplier intelligence in your organization is already being collected – just trapped in the wrong department? EBG | Network and Medius invite you to explore how AI is creating a new bridge between finance operations and procurement strategy. Date: March 3rd, 2026 Time: 10:00-10:45 AM CET (we will extend the […]
Tackling Tail Spend at Scale at CPO Outlook 2026
EBG | Network welcomes Candex as a first-time exhibitor at CPO Outlook 2026. This tail spend management specialist brings a global solution to one of procurement’s most persistent operational challenges. Tail spend remains a blind spot for many procurement organizations. The numbers from EBG | Network surveys tell a consistent story. Resource overload affects 62% […]
What Procurement Leaders Actually Want to Fix: Patterns from the Technology Wish List
When you ask what single technology challenge they’d solve, procurement leaders reveal more about transformation barriers than any survey question could When we asked 58 procurement professionals at CPO Outlook 2025 to name the single technology challenge they would solve if they could, something unexpected happened. They didn’t describe aspirational capabilities or cutting-edge innovations. Instead, […]
Reinventing Procurement, Part 1: What Leaders Would Stop Doing Tomorrow
Breaking Free from the Operational Quicksand Based on CPO Outlook 2025 Survey | 58 procurement leaders from 47 Nordic companies EBG | Network asked procurement leaders a deceptively simple question – “If you could reinvent your role today to focus entirely on future value, what would you stop doing?” Their answers revealed something profound. This […]
What Procurement Data Showed Us at CPO Outlook 2025
Procurement at an Inflection Point: Insights from The Hackett Group at CPO Outlook 2025 At CPO Outlook 2025, Vicky Kavan from The Hackett Group delivered a keynote that captured both the speed of global change and the structural realities inside procurement teams. Her message connected Hackett’s global data with what Nordic leaders experience every day. […]
Everything is the Same, Everything is Different: AI Procurement in 2025
Lars J. Andersson from Carve Consulting delivered a keynote that challenged Nordic procurement leaders to reimagine their function from the ground up—starting with customer value and working backwards through the AI possibilities available today. The Paradox: Timeless Purpose, Revolutionary Tools When Lars J. Andersson took the CPO Outlook stage on October 16, 2025, he opened […]
SEB | From Complexity to Clarity — Building a Fact-Based Procurement Function
At CPO Outlook 2025, Michael Hansén, Chief Procurement Officer at SEB, shared a candid and inspiring story of transformation. With over two decades of procurement experience across industries, he joined SEB in 2021 to build a procurement function almost from scratch — within one of the Nordic region’s largest financial institutions. From a blank slate […]
CPO Outlook 2023 | Challenges in Procure-to-Pay adoption
But not the least – how to overcome them. The essence of what EBG do is to enable cross function and cross organization collaboration. To establish an understanding of how processes run though multiple functions, not seldom with conflicting KPI’s and contradictory strategies. During CPO Outlook 2023 on October 18th and 19th in Stockholm, you […]
How to master supplier communication and data
If you could line up all the supplier data in your critical and non critical systems – how many miles would they reach? How much time is spent managing poor data? How many decisions may have been conducted based on non optimal information? The discussion about how to tackle the often thousands of suppliers and […]
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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? […]