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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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EBG | Insight: Shaping the future of businesses
There are a lot of demands on procurement these days. Be agile, stay connected with the markets and stakeholders, cut costs and increase growth, innovate production, inform all, stay informed, reduce risk and stay on top of all possibilities available. Having a CEO, CFO, functional leader AND supplier focus at all times. How do you […]
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: Source to Pay panel discussion on how to develop world class compliance
There are numerous finance, procurement, CRM and other systems in the market. A lot has happened in the past, systems are merged as are companies. Finding the balance between knowing exactly what your organization is spending, how and why, is a challenge in itself. At Source to Pay Summit 2014 EBG brought together wise men […]
EBG | Insight: Unifying control with common strategies enabling global purchasing power
There are few global organizations who are not looking at ways to leverage on their global purchasing power. Finding ways to unify control and execute common strategies along the procure to pay process takes time but is a crucial part in controlling spend, finding ways to reduce cost and enabling transactional follow up and control. […]
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EBG | Insight: Basware reflections and advice
As companies get out of the first acute crisis mode there may be time to reflect. How much insight did we have into our spend and cash? How dependent on manual touches are you to get your source to pay processes through? How well can you use your entire spend and cash data to predict […]
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 […]
EBG | Play: How will you manage cash, savings and supplier risk ahead?
The past year and a half has brought with it market changes. Changes in where supplies come from, who buy it and how it is followed up upon. Corcentric have followed the market development carefully and through research they identified three areas of especial interest for businesses ahead; cash, savings and risk. Here you can […]
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: Transforming procurement at Danish Crown
Webinar Summary: Transforming Procurement at Danish Crown In this insightful webinar hosted by EBG Network, Danish Crown and JAGGAER shared their transformational journey toward building a best-in-class procurement process. Danish Crown, a leading global meat producer, revealed how they embraced a strategic partnership with JAGGAER to streamline operations, enhance transparency and boost procurement efficiency. Joanna […]
EBG | Play: Optimizing Spend Management challenging existing processes?
This webinar explored one of the most pressing challenges in modern organizations – optimizing spend management. Finance and procurement professionals gained actionable insights on leveraging advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to streamline processes, enhance compliance and achieve better spend visibility. Presented by Carin Collin, Global VP of Customer Success, Medius and hosted by […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Insight: Unifying control with common strategies enabling global purchasing power
There are few global organizations who are not looking at ways to leverage on their global purchasing power. Finding ways to unify control and execute common strategies along the procure to pay process takes time but is a crucial part in controlling spend, finding ways to reduce cost and enabling transactional follow up and control. […]
EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
Organizations are striving to increase an understanding of company spend, ways to improve innovation speed and company capital and cash. Procurement have for a long time struggled to highlight the possible impact the know how they possess can have on all of the above. Challenges visualizing what is and what if can be part of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 […]
Sourcing, procurement and finance development
In a few months professionals meet in Stockholm an discuss vital business development aspects from a sourcing, procurement and finance perspective. How much of your company revenue is invested externally? Probably a major part, making Source to Pay topics a vital part of you development. Below the program as of January 10th, more topics will […]
EBG | Insight: Unifying control with common strategies enabling global purchasing power
There are few global organizations who are not looking at ways to leverage on their global purchasing power. Finding ways to unify control and execute common strategies along the procure to pay process takes time but is a crucial part in controlling spend, finding ways to reduce cost and enabling transactional follow up and control. […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
CPO Outlook 2023 | How are you preparing for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive?
On 1 June 2023, the European Parliament has agreed on its position on the Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (the CSDDD). The CSDDD requires in-scope companies to conduct due diligence on, and take responsibility for, human rights abuses and environmental harm throughout their global value chains. Once the CSDDD has been formally adopted – […]
EBG | Play: Beckers Groups sustainability change management journey
How to move from silo CSR and sustainability code of conduct website statements to active performance measures and supplier collaboration activities is increasingly important for most large organizations. EBG | Network was happy to be able to share – in much detail – the work made by Beckers Group and not the least Thomas Lüder, […]
Scope and type supply chain risk monitored
For the third year in a row, EBG | Network are happy to invite you to join a supply chain risk management overview webinar. Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, Global Operations at Nokia share her insights during a riskmethods enabled webinar. There is still time to register go here to learn […]
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 […]