Business Sweden forecasts 2.5% global growth in 2026 and a risk picture where threats reinforce each other. Four questions it raises for procurement leaders.
Risk & Resilience
Supplier risk, geopolitics and disruption, seen by the procurement leaders who manage them. In EBG's spring 2025 survey in Gothenburg, three-quarters named lack of visibility beyond Tier 1 as their biggest risk management challenge.
How far down can you see?
Volvo Group Purchasing on seeing risk across 18,000+ suppliers and over one million sub-suppliers, and what it takes to act before a disruption lands.
Proxima on what procurement is still asked for
Interview · Expert Organisation · Proxima “I just would hate for us to lose focus on what procurement is being asked for and what our value proposition is by what potentially could be a slightly glamorous, shiny thing on the side, the AI conversation. I know that might not be a popular narrative.” Twenty minutes […]
One molecule, two ledgers
CPO Outlook 2026 · Analysis · Risk & sustainability across the programme For materials, 2026 was the year risk and sustainability stopped being two questions. The feedstock that sits on a Scope 3 line is the same feedstock that stopped moving freely through the Strait of Hormuz in March. When the raw material is fossil, […]
Macro impact on Nordic procurement strategies
Two maps, one Nordic room | CPO Outlook 2026 14–15 October 2026 Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm The 23rd EBG | Network summit The view from outside in Foreign direct investment into Europe rose 38 per cent in 2025. Export sentiment towards Asia dropped 15 points in a single quarter of 2026. And Denmark, Finland, Norway […]
Who decides what it means?
Peer Lab · CPO Outlook 2026 A regulation tells you what to comply with. It never tells you what it means for your business — or who inside your organisation gets to decide that. How far into your supply base it reaches, what counts as evidence, where the line sits. That gap is where procurement […]
EcoVadis join CPO Outlook 2026 — bringing the execution question to the table
EBG | Network welcomes EcoVadis to CPO Outlook 2026, 14–15 October in Stockholm — an Expert organisation EBG has worked alongside since 2016. EcoVadis hosts a Roundtable, on the difference between knowing your supplier risk and actually reducing it. The table EcoVadis hosts at CPO Outlook 2026 Roundtable runs twice on Day 1. Same topic, […]
EBG | Insight: The most powerful force for sustainability? Your supply chain.
Ten years after their first interview, EcoVadis co-founder and co-CEO Pierre-François Thaler is interviewed by Anna Bjärkerud, EBG on what they’ve built — and where the market is heading. When EcoVadis first joined an EBG conference in 2016 — the year sustainability became a fixed part of EBGs agenda — the state of the art […]
From Reactive to Proactive: Why Supply Chain Risk Intelligence Has Become Mission-Critical
Prewave returns as Platinum Partner for CPO Outlook 2026, bringing four years of practitioner insights on moving beyond Tier 1 visibility When Prewave first partnered with CPO Outlook in 2023, the conversation around supply chain risk was already shifting. Three years later, that shift has become a transformation. The gap between organizations with deep supply […]
EBG | Play Scope 3 Supplier Engagement at Kongsberg Maritime
Supplier engagement does not start with emissions. Anna Grabska of Kongsberg Maritime on moving Scope 3 from spend-based estimates to primary emissions data.