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: 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: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail
EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
EBG | Insight: Experiences in procurement outsourcing
As businesses evolve the view on procurement changes from a low cost, cost reduction and transaction effective angle to an at least more diversified view depending on type business, maturity level and know-how. The Hackett Group state that centralizing and possibly outsourcing of procurement has a high growth rate and looking at the challenges and […]
EBG | Insight: ROI, obstacles and future proof P2P
The other day EBG | Network “met” with Eric Wilson, Vice President Purchase to pay with Basware in the US. We spoke about his experiences in creating purchase to pay business cases, ensuring ROI, how to ensure success and how to future proof purchase to pay development.
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
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, […]
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: 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: Finance and procurement – a fine romance or the best of enemies?
How can it be that it is still so hard to collaborate across functions? To find ways to ensure those great strategies are realized, savings met, automation enabled and cash optimization ensured. Welcome to not only re-view the recent session enabled by Basware but also send in questions and answer the poll questions! How does […]
EBG | Play: Solving the e-procurement user adoption challenge
The title of this webinar holds many promises. Could there be a single formula that enable organizations to use systems as intended? May it be the way they are implemented, how many hours are spent on education, how processes are set up or who are able to use it. Of course all of that matters […]
EBG | Play: Sustainability due diligence and governance for procurement in 2023
The webinar “Sustainability Due Diligence and Governance for Procurement in 2023” brought together industry thought leaders to explore one of the most pressing challenges faced by procurement today—achieving sustainable supply chain practices amidst rising regulatory demands and market expectations. Hosted by Anna Bjärkerud from EBG | Network, the session featured insights from: The discussion revolved […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
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: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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 | 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 […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
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: Enabling purchase-to-pay spend control linking strategies, processes and technology together
Date: Thursday November 5th Time: 11:00-11:45 AM CET (12:00-12:45 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >>Click here to register NOTE: This webinar has over 120 registrants and take 100 attendees joining live. Should you not be able to join the session […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 […]
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
Laerdal Medical join CPO Outlook 2023
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: 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, […]
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: 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 […]