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 […]
EBG | Play: Public sector contract compliance and spend control
In a popular webinar Daniel Nesz at Södersjukhuset AB shared how they have used a Qlik solution to increase visibility and control over both contract compliance and spend pattern overview. Public sector have a never ending demand to use money wisely as well as having extensive legal aspects of how, with who and in what […]
About the hidden spend gold in accounts payable data
Last Friday I had a vision. You know when you accidentally happen to look in a direction you might not have previously and see something you otherwise wouldn’t have seen? Last Friday I hosted a webinar together with OpusCapita titled ”Spend Analytics revealing the hidden gold in accounts payable data” referring to the spend analytics […]
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 […]
Nordic F&A BPO Webinar April 17th: How does your data compare with peers?
Date: Friday April 17th Time: 11:00-11:55 AM CET (12:00-12:55 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >>Click here to register for the webinar The idea of centralizing and outsourcing all or part of finance and accounting (F&A) has been around in the […]
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: Hva skjer i det Norske fakturamarkedet når andelen efaktura øker?
I Norge de siste årene har fokuset vært på krav i offentlig sektor om efaktura og ambisjonene knyttet til å begynne å bruke også elektronisk ordre og katalog. Utviklingen går stadig fremover med en økende grad av elektroniske og automatiserte transaksjoner i forskjellige organisasjoner. Bortsett fra å takle kravene fra kunder og leverandører – hvordan […]
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 […]