In a world where procurement and finance leaders face growing pressure to achieve more with fewer resources, inefficient processes, shrinking margins and rising compliance demands are common hurdles. The question many are asking is: How can we adapt, thrive and stay ahead? The answer lies in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: AI-Powered Procurement: A Smarter Procurement Strategy
In a world where procurement and finance leaders face growing pressure to achieve more with fewer resources, inefficient processes, shrinking margins and rising compliance demands are common hurdles. The question many are asking is: How can we adapt, thrive and stay ahead? The answer lies in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging […]
EBG | Webinar: Mastering Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Join an EBG | Network webinar focusing on “Supply Chain Sustainability: How to overcome Critical Challenges in Data, Compliance and Real-Time Risk Management“. There is a tide wave of regulations and an increase in insights needed in all companies. Procurement know very well how your supply and supplier networks are shaped and how hard it […]
EBG | Summit News
CPO Outlook 2024: Supplier Relationship Management
👉 CPO Outlook 2024 Recap 👈 As you may know, we do not stream our summits due to their strong emphasis on face-to-face discussions in smaller, more intimate groups. With that in mind, here’s a brief summary based on my observations from the two days. Day 1 | Keynote – Supplier Relationship Management Thierry Blomet, […]
CPO Outlook 2024 | Volvo Group recap
👉 CPO Outlook 2024 Recap 👈 As you may know, EBG do not stream our summits due to their strong emphasis on face-to-face discussions in smaller, more intimate groups. With that in mind, here’s a brief summary based on my observations from the two days. Day 1 | Keynote | Risk Management Richard Clement | […]
Keelvar join CPO Outlook 2024
EBG | Network welcome Keelvar joining CPO Outlook 2024 on October 15th & 16th in Stockholm. They bring extensive knowledge in sourcing optimization. During CPO Outlook you can choose to take part in their Theme Discussions – round table discussions to draw from their and your peers experiences. Their discussions will focus on; How do you […]
CPO Outlook 2024 | Risk & Sustainability in procurement
Risk & Sustainability from a Procurement perspective – to what extent can and should procurement be supply and supplier related sustainability topics subject matter experts? …of course procurement are asked to take the lead? What does the rapid regulatory development (due to too little progress being seen) mean to existing and future procurement organizations? To […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: From transactions to financial value ad
EBG first met with Pagero back in 2008. The era of e-invoicing for the masses was there – accounts payable managers were looking for ways to make those suppliers send e-invoices, the Norwegian government was looking for an approach to enforce e-invoicing to government authorities and the Danish government had already enforced business to government […]
EBG | Insight: OpusCapita point out source-to-pay focus
We have all – globally – been part of a crisis affecting all parts of society. Apart from affecting actions taken to preserve short term liquidity it is relevant and of importance to learn how companies reflect over their then, now and ahead strategies to grow and improve. Study after study show companies are not […]
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: 7 out of 10 or 46% of spend contingent workforce?
Winning the talent war and at the same time reducing cost does not seemingly go hand in hand. Companies have found ways to reduce wage costs by centralizing and outsourcing HR, finance, procurement and many more functions. The wage arbitrage game however is apparently coming to an end. A contingent workforce may historically have been […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Munters Europe share Supply Chain Risk Management experiences
It was a pleasure sharing supply chain risk management know how from Stefan Måhl, VP Global Sourcing at Munters Europe and that of Rolf Zimmer, Managing Director at riskmethods. It was also a pleasure highlighting the experiences shared by you who joined in live – giving a live webinar an extra value. You may also […]
EBG | Play: Online Goods Receipt Q&A
A big congratulations to Ann-Louise Hallding, Sourcing & Procurement Process Development Specialist at Telia Company who – on February 17th – won a Sourcing & Procurement Hero Award for her fantastic internal job aiming to improve the companies procurement user experience. Telia Company CPO Jarkki Sakki gave Ann-Louise an award for ” Achievements in deliver value […]
EBG | Play: Deliver cost control through your non-permanent workforce?
43% of the average enterprise’s overall workforce is now considered contract, contingent or non-employee and is built on freelancers, independent contractors, professional services and traditional temporary workers – up from just 20 percent a decade ago*. That is a staggering fact. During a recent webinar with Beeline facts and figures were run through. The direct […]
EBG | Play: The Elephant in the Room: S2P Ecosystem or S2P Single Suite?
Say six salmons in a salmon box really fast 10 times. Do you have that expression in English? Probably not but it came to mind asking attendees the question if they choose to adjust processes to systems or systems to processes. And just like pronouncing complex sentences so all understand them – deciding which system […]
EBG Play | Online Spend Management Benchmark Recordings
Thank you for being a part of or wanting to take part of the EBG Online Spend Management Benchmark aired November 26th. Together with ProSourcia, EBG can provide you with a study summary and new fresh data from the live session. Data that to a large extent comply with the study data. Joining EBG Online […]
EBG Play | Beyond Trends: “10 Transformational Realities” redefining procurement
It was a handful, we give you that – as it so often is doing business today in a global environment. We were scheduled to meet online from Canada, India, UK, Sweden and the US – preferably on web camera. We almost made it! What we were able to achieve is to have several insights […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Interview: Part II | Visibility, control, and compliance by digitising Source-to-pay processes
In the second interview part, interviewing Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development at Zycus, we continue to discuss challenges and opportunities advancing procurement digitization. Or – rather – gathering and sharing those huge amounts of data floating around in any large company and making the best of it. Richard come from years of working with procurement […]
EBG | Insight: If all is about change – how can we make change more strategic
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 | Play: Benchmark your source-to-pay performance against the best
The idea of “the best” in process automation may be shifting. From lowering the number of FTEs and SLAs focusing on transactional efficiency. To improved value creation and data insights fed back to the organization. How do you get there and how do you know where Your organization stands? Take a look at the on […]
EBG | Play: Online Goods Receipt Q&A
A big congratulations to Ann-Louise Hallding, Sourcing & Procurement Process Development Specialist at Telia Company who – on February 17th – won a Sourcing & Procurement Hero Award for her fantastic internal job aiming to improve the companies procurement user experience. Telia Company CPO Jarkki Sakki gave Ann-Louise an award for ” Achievements in deliver value […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG | Insight: The Lundbeck business service center and Ariba story
We live in a rapidly changing world and businesses need to stay agile. Finding ways to lower cost and ad value is on all businesses agenda. Actually doing so is another question. Lundbeck has undertaken several steps to ensure they enable the strategy set. “We want to invest significantly in growth opportunities, maximize the growth […]
EBG | Play: Deploying supplier CSR monitoring across a global purchasing organization
What do you think are sourcing and procurement key focus areas today and going ahead? Risk management is probably in the top areas as are reducing cost. If you ask where CSR and sustainability come in – how do you think those aspects rate? In a recent study made by Silf in Sweden, the number […]
EBG | Insight: What is your contract management status?
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization
End September great minds met online to discuss digitalization in general and Artificial Intelligence impact on procurement specifically. Why so? On April 10th 2018, 25 European countries signed a Declaration of cooperation on Artificial Intelligence. It builds further on the achievements and investments of the European research and business community in AI. Given this announcement, […]
EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
Is there a correlation? Between being resilient and sustainable? EBG | Network had the pleasure of hosting a webinar where Pete Rau, Operations Manager at EcoVadis shared his view in the matter. What did the audience think? As always with live poll questions there are additional questions and reflections coming up after poll results are […]
Sourcing Outlook recap and Post Summit Report
The first Sourcing Outlook took place in Stockholm end October 2017. Creating and hosting a second annual conference wasn’t an easy decision – it had to be with a focus that felt fresh and to-the-point. Sourcing success due to business – buyer and supplier collaboration EBG decided from the get go that one aspect had […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
EBG | Insight: How will sustainability and CSR issues in the supply chain impact procurement?
Getting an understanding into an increasingly important and increasingly global supply chain is and will be even more significant. Looking at the progress of EBG | Network over the past five years, the strategic increase of a holistic approach to sourcing, procurement and finance is the most apparent. It seems most companies today know that […]
EBG | Play: Global CSR Risk & Performance: Insights From The 2017 Index
What happens if you decide to take a deep look into years of quality data based on thousands and thousands of companies actual performances? Great insights of course. EcoVadis did just that and gathered the data into a first Global CSR Risk & Performance index. EBG | Network are happy to share the recorded webinar […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
Before Easter, EBG | Network hosted a webinar enabled by riskmethods featuring Husqvarna Group focusing on how they have been and are developing ways to manage risk in their supply chain. Benjamin A Sutherland at Husqvarna group and Heiko Schwarz at riskmethods share their insights. Below is the recorded webinar session for you to view. […]
EBG | Play: Aker Solutions: Reputational and financial risk control
It is always a treat hearing real life experiences from different industries and with different angles based on the same premises. That today a lot of doing business has to do with managing and developing external supplier relationships. EBG | Network is very happy that Hilde Kjensjord, Senior Manager, SCM Governance, Risk & Compliance at […]