Should companies talk about digital transformation or process transformation? To EBG process highlight the dependencies functions and decisions have across an organization. Cost control and cash flow performance mean collaborating across functions. Sustainability improvements and reporting mean knowing your business internally and increasingly externally. On April 25th you who join CFO Outlook 2024 will have […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Learn from the finance digitization and automation journey at Billerud
Improving efficiency, considering end to end processes and making sure doing so in an adjustable way. This is what Billerud have set out to achieve and you can learn more about it! Three years ago Billerud started a journey towards automation and harmonization of systems, processes and working methods within finance. The new strategy meant […]
EBG | Webinar: Sustainability due diligence and governance for procurement in 2023
Procurement have been aware of the impact supply chain and external spend have on corporate sustainability agendas for a long time. A lot has happened on the legislation side as well as on corporate awareness. During this upcoming webinar EBG bring together brains and experiences across multiple aspects of corporate sustainability realization. Because even though […]
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CFO Outlook 2024 | Final Program available
Should companies talk about digital transformation or process transformation? To EBG process highlight the dependencies functions and decisions have across an organization. Cost control and cash flow performance mean collaborating across functions. Sustainability improvements and reporting mean knowing your business internally and increasingly externally. On April 25th you who join CFO Outlook 2024 will have […]
Stora Enso join CFO Outlook 2024
All want control, all want insights, all want automation and digitalization. So why are we not seeing more progress? A warm welcome to Hannele Palje-Rossi, SVP, Head of Global Business Services at Stora Enso joining CFO Outlook 2024. Hannele will share her view on how to Rewire to a ‘Good enough’ AI culture! Most agree […]
Acumant join CFO Outlook 2024
EBG | Network welcome Acumant with its ESG platform ecoPRISM to CFO Outlook 2024. Acumant join as an Expert Organization. You who join the summit will learn more about their view on creating a holistic view over your ESG data (Environmental, social and governance). As we will learn during CFO Outlook 2024, sustainability is not […]
Billerud join CFO Outlook 2024
How do you execute what may seem like a straight forward strategy? Often strategies end up relying on stakeholders across functions collaborating. On data being accurate. On businesses being consistent. Many of which all of you know is often quite hard to predict. EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Jesper Persson, Business Developer […]
EBG | Insights
CFO Talk with Nuno Guerreiro at Sonae about touchless processes and the need for stakeholder management
As downstream Shared Service Centers find themselves managing numerous errors, realizing the need for upstream process development, the question is – how do you enforce that? If touchless processes are the goal – in what ways do you influence metrics and behavior in sourcing and procurement departments? Nuno Guerreiro, Head of Accounts Payable at Sonae […]
EBG | Insight: How do you measure procurement?
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 | Insight: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay
On November 17th 2015, at Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, procurement and finance professionals will meet up at Ariba Commerce Summit 2015. During this summit you can network with practitioners and experts and exchange experiences, learn about future procurement developments and today’s technology driven market. Listen to the below interview with Charlotte Wedell-Neergaard, Nordic […]
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 Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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: 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 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: AI, Machine Learning and RPA: Value Drivers & Limitations
A few years into the hype: Where do RPA, ML and AI stand today? Not an easy question to answer in a defined way during 45 minutes. But we try. Here you find the recording of an online session EBG held together with Basware and guest speakers Forrester. Fun fact that almost to the date […]
EBG | Play: Historic spend and future needs
EBG | Network want to send a big thank you to Irene Tibbling at Stora Enso who generously shared her sourcing and procurement visualization experiences. Also a big thank you to Qlik (in Swedish go to Qlik) who enabled the webinar to take place. Webinar recording Here you can view the recorded webinar session: Poll […]
EBG Play: Online S&P and F&A Benchmark Sessions
Thank you for being interested in all or most of each days Online Sourcing & Procurement and Finance & Accounting BPO Benchmark Sessions held in October 2015. EBG are very happy with the result, happy with the experiences given and happy with the interaction so many showed! Below are the recordings from all sessions, in […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Insight: Basware reflections and advice
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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 | Insight: Arjan van Weele about the need for change
By ebgnetwork
He is a household name within procurement and supply chain – Arjan van Weele. He holds the (parttime) NEVI-Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management, at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS). Arjan acts as an independent boardroom consultant to many large companies on procurement strategy and governance issues. He […]
Beyond trends from industry experts | III
By ebgnetwork
On March 12th professionals from across the globe will meet online to learn from each other about what trends may mean now and ahead for procurement. Jon Hansen is gathering intelligence leading up to the webinar and you too can draw from those insights via Beyond trends form industry experts | I and Beyond trends […]
EBG | Play: Public sector contract compliance and spend control
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
CFO Talk with Nuno Guerreiro at Sonae about touchless processes and the need for stakeholder management
By ebgnetwork
As downstream Shared Service Centers find themselves managing numerous errors, realizing the need for upstream process development, the question is – how do you enforce that? If touchless processes are the goal – in what ways do you influence metrics and behavior in sourcing and procurement departments? Nuno Guerreiro, Head of Accounts Payable at Sonae […]
EBG | Play: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
By ebgnetwork
“Artificial intelligence is not purely “artificial.” The ideal approach amplifies human intuition with machine intelligence to create a powerful multiplier effect. That’s augmented intelligence.” A statement made by Qlik with the headline “From BI to “AI””. EBG | Network hosted a webinar together with Paul Winsor at Qlik. The topic what augmented intelligence mean within the […]
EBG | Play: Making sense of procurement and AP data
By ebgnetwork
A great number of people signed up to join a webinar named “”How do you make sense of procurement and accounts payable data?” where Jereme Pineda at Basware shared his insights into the matter. From a finance perspective cost is a solid way of analyzing purchase to pay outcome, but how about looking at it […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
By ebgnetwork
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? […]
EBG | Webinar: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
By ebgnetwork
Transforming the supply chain process with augmented intelligence – a far stretch from the reality many organizations face today? Data is the lifeblood of business in the information age. Hence, gathering and analyzing mission-critical data from different sources is increasingly important. Vast amounts of business-critical data reside in silos, is manually handled and reactively communicated. […]
EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
EBG | Play: Global CSR Risk & Performance: Insights From The 2017 Index
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
Laerdal Medical join CPO Outlook 2023
By ebgnetwork
It is no longer enough to “start somewhere” – even that is exactly what you need to do. Regulations are mounting and companies are expected to know their supply chain. To know who their suppliers are and to take responsibility. To not only lower emissions but to take social responsibilities. How do you take control […]
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
By ebgnetwork
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
By ebgnetwork
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 […]